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This article shows presents a study from the Cleveland Clinic that shows that people who are up-to-date with the mRNA COVID-19 shots are more susceptible to a COVID-19 infection. Recently I published The Devastating Effects of IgG4 after the mRNA COVID shots which showed that one consequence is the increased risk of SARS-pCoV-2 reinfection. The recently published…
A study headed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US has detected nine SARS-CoV-2 viruses with genetic information from the Delta (AY.119.2) and Omicron (BA.1.1) variants in several mid-Atlantic states of the US. The states where the recombinants were detected are New Jersey, Tennesse, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. RNA viruses like the…
Moderna’s study shows the ineffectiveness of their shots against the Omicron and why they recommend a booster Moderna scientists published a study Serum Neutralizing Activity of mRNA-1273 Against the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant: A Preliminary Report that came out yesterday as a preprint in medRxiv. They took blood samples from participants in their phase 2…
Adults and children with the Omicron variant are less sick compared to the same group with Delta COVID-19. The article, COVID-19 in children under five years old with Omicron is mild compared to the Delta variant, was posted yesterday. The same authors from Case Western Reserve University have another paper comparing the clinical outcomes for…
What are the outcomes for children under five years old who have Omicron? That’s the purpose of the study released yesterday from Case Western Reserve University. How many went to the emergency room? How many got hospitalized? And how many needed intensive care treatment and required mechanical ventilation for respiratory support. The study compared two…
Can a booster shot stop the omicron variant? That is is the question answered by this paper. This research is essential because it is a clinical investigation, and what happened to people is better than a laboratory simulation between antibodies and pseudotyped (assembled) viruses. That’s because there is more to the immune system than measuring…
“Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, The mutations in the omicron variant allow it to escape the immune response, but its entry into the lung cells becomes impaired. This explains the higher transmission but lower mortality rates in South Africa. The higher…
If you want to know if death rates and hospitalization will increase when omicron hits your location, look at what happened in South Africa, where the omicron variant started and is now the dominant variant comprising 95% of the cases. Analysts from the South African Medical Research Council and National Institute for Communicable Diseases in…
Omicron can evade antibodies from vaccinated and COVID convalescent people Nowadays, a burning question in everybody’s mind, whether they are vaccinated or not, is, “Am I protected against the omicron variant?” Research from the Institute of Virology of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Australia, answered that question. At least partially. The study is SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529…
The media and health agencies have conditioned the population that variants are dangerous. The discovery of the Delta and omicron variant has led governments to push for more vaccinations, whether first, second dose, booster, or further boosters. They also use it as an excuse to vaccinate children who don’t need it. The paper, Intra-host variation and…
GISAID or Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data is a website where gene sequences of coronaviruses and influenza viruses are shared. Genetic sequences from all over the world are submitted to GISAID. Based on the gene sequences, scientists can identify and categorize different strains of coronaviruses and influenza viruses. The table below shows the number of omicron variants from…
A study published in the British Medical Journal shows increased covid-19 infection 90 days after the second injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. Elapsed time since BNT162b2 vaccine and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: test negative design study Results: 83 057 adults received an RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 during the study period and 9.6% had a…
Before 2019, some coronaviruses circulated in the population. They are the human coronaviruses 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1. The SARS-Cov-2 entered the scene in December 2019. Every time a virus infects anyone, it mutates and changes to find a way to survive. That’s because everybody’s immune system is different. The specificity and properties of an…