COVID-19 News and Discussions

[raklian]

The first is that covid is still circulating and due to the rolling back of public health measures and the country giving up will likely be as bad or worse in the next epidemic cycle sometime in the next months.

I'm in full agreement. A lot of experts worth their salt are saying the same thing.

[R8Z]

Remember when I said to ask for the doctor to aspirate the syringe? If any of you are still taking these experimental vaccines, make sure to do that even if the WHO recommends otherwise.

Notice the heart of the poor rat who had the vaccine injected intravenously: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar ... 07/6353927

Unfortunately at the time of my first post I wasn't aware of the above source.

[andmar74]

The BA.2 virus -- a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant -- isn't just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of the key weapons we have against Covid-19, new research suggests.

When the researchers infected hamsters with BA.2 and BA.1, the animals infected with BA.2 got sicker and had worse lung function. In tissues samples, the lungs of BA.2-infected hamsters had more damage than those infected by BA.1.

Maybe that's why I'm not well yet, 3 weeks after I got sick. I have lung problems. The BA.2 was dominant at the time of infection.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/17/heal ... index.html

[wjfox]

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[raklian]

This is why we will have another wave soon.

[raklian]

[raklian]

[andmar74]

I'm finally back to normal 24 days after I got ill. Probably the BA.2 variant. I had trouble with the lungs but I have been out running without any issues. Now rebuilding of the body begins. I don't expect any long-covid but who knows.

[R8Z]

And so it comes to an end in the UK...

btw what's wrong with the guy's hair? Lmao

[caltrek]

BA.2 Omicron Subvariant Is Growing in America, But Yet to Explode
by Stephen Luntz
February 22, 2022

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-m ... o-explode/

Introduction:

(IFL Science) The BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19's Omicron strain may be starting to make itself known within the United States, epidemiologists fear. Nevertheless, its spread has not followed the steep upward path there that it has in some other countries, nor that shown by the original Omicron,

BA.2 is a form of Omicron – different enough to be worth noting, but similar enough it hasn't been given its own letter. Virologists say it is more of a sibling to the original Omicron than a descendent, sharing a distant ancestor. It's now present in almost every country. In some, such as Denmark and South Africa, it has outpaced other strains, leading public health officials to brace for yet another wave of the virus.

In other places, however, its numbers have been modest or stalled entirely, but no one knows why.
"A lot of us were assuming that it was going to quickly take off in the United States just like it was doing in Europe and become the new dominant variant," Dr Nathan Grubaugh of the Yale School of Public Health told NPR.

First detected in the USA in early January and making up only 3.9 percent of new infections in mid-February according to the CDC, that hasn't happened. By contrast, Omicron's two earlier successful subvariants BA1.1 and BA1.1.529 went from a handful of cases to complete dominance in the space of December.

[weatheriscool]

A new Covid vaccine shows 100 percent efficacy against severe disease and hospitalizations
Source: New York Times

Two doses of a new Covid vaccine that is based on a conventional approach achieved 100 percent efficacy against severe disease and hospitalizations, and it could be an effective booster after other Covid shots, the vaccine’s manufacturers announced on Wednesday. The vaccine, made by the Europe-based pharmaceutical companies Sanofi and GSK, is one of four candidates that received billions of dollars for development from Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s program to accelerate vaccines.

The new vaccine had an efficacy of 75 percent against moderate-to-severe disease. It showed 58 percent efficacy against symptomatic disease in its Phase 3 clinical trial. Although that number is lower than was observed for the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in their initial trials, it is “in line with expected vaccine effectiveness in today’s environment dominated by variants of concern,” Sanofi and GSK said in a statement.

Used as a booster dose after one of the other available coronavirus vaccines, the Sanofi-GSK shot increased antibody levels by 18- to 30-fold. The companies intend to submit the vaccine for authorization to regulatory authorities in the United States and Europe, they said on Wednesday. Sanofi and GSK were expected to seek authorization for their vaccine last year, but shelved those plans after clinical trials showed disappointing results in older adults. They then developed a stronger version of the vaccine and tested it in new trials.

In laboratory studies, two doses of the Sanofi-GSK vaccine delivered more neutralizing antibodies than an approved mRNA vaccine, according to the companies. The data have not yet been published. The vaccine was safe and well-tolerated by adults of all ages, the companies said. The best target for Covid vaccines is a protein called spike that covers the surface of the virus like a crown. While the mRNA vaccines contain the genetic instructions for making the protein, the Sanofi-GSK vaccine uses a slightly modified version of the protein itself to stimulate an immune response.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/23 ... makers-say

[wjfox]

[caltrek]

Melatonin: Highlighting its Use as a Potential Treatment for SARS-CoV-2 Infection
by Jack Dunhill
February 25, 2022

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-m ... ts-review/

Introduction:

(Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences) Numerous pharmaceutical drugs have been repurposed for use as treatments for COVID-19 disease. These drugs have not consistently demonstrated high efficacy in preventing or treating this serious condition and all have side effects to differing degrees. We encourage the continued consideration of the use of the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent, melatonin, as a countermeasure to a SARS-CoV-2 infection. More than 140 scientific publications have identified melatonin as a likely useful agent to treat this disease. Moreover, the publications cited provide the rationale for the use of melatonin as a prophylactic agent against this condition. Melatonin has pan-antiviral effects and it diminishes the severity of viral infections and reduces the death of animals infected with numerous different viruses, including three different coronaviruses. Network analyses, which compared drugs used to treat SARS-CoV-2 in humans, also predicted that melatonin would be the most effective agent for preventing/treating COVID-19. Finally, when seriously infected COVID-19 patients were treated with melatonin, either alone or in combination with other medications, these treatments reduced the severity of infection, lowered the death rate, and shortened the duration of hospitalization. Melatonin’s ability to arrest SARS-CoV-2 infections may reduce health care exhaustion by limiting the need for hospitalization. Importantly, melatonin has a high safety profile over a wide range of doses and lacks significant toxicity. Some molecular processes by which melatonin resists a SARS-CoV-2 infection are summarized. The authors believe that all available, potentially beneficial drugs, including melatonin, that lack toxicity should be used in pandemics such as that caused by SARS-CoV-2.

[andmar74]

It's Omicron.

[R8Z]

Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line
https://www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/44/3/73

5. Conclusions
Our study is the first in vitro study on the effect of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 on human liver cell line. We present evidence on fast entry of BNT162b2 into the cells and subsequent intracellular reverse transcription of BNT162b2 mRNA into DNA.

I am no expert, but I am sincerely hoping they can't achieve a replication of this experiment in vivo on cells that can replicate otherwise who knows what they have hacked into the DNA of the billion+ test subjects.

"The science is settled: safe and effective, no evidence of DNA reverse transcription and integration from mRNA vaccines", said the fact checkers. Of course there's no evidence, there was not enough time for throughout testing and ensuring that is the case. Funnily enough, one can still google for these pages, they are still on, up and running -- for now. As always, prudently doubt everything, trust no one (specially big damn pharma ). Edit: look at this thread and the comments. 7 months ago the science was settled.

I ain't linking anything else here but duckduckgo-ing the title of the study will yield other pages that delve into speculative discussions on the reasoning for that and more explanations, specially in substacks. There's a gold mine in the comments from experts there.

[Xyls]

Are you done posting conspiracy theories from this discredited guy?

[wjfox]

New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin

By Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller
Feb. 26, 2022

Scientists released a pair of extensive studies on Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Analyzing data from a variety of sources, they concluded that the coronavirus was very likely present in live mammals sold in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in late 2019 and suggested that the virus twice spilled over into people working or shopping there. They said they found no support for an alternate theory that the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.

“When you look at all of the evidence together, it’s an extraordinarily clear picture that the pandemic started at the Huanan market,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author of both studies.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... 4hMF6IjyxH



Source: Michael Worobey et al., preprint via Zenodo. Photos taken by a citizen and posted to Weibo in 2019 (first three), and by Edward C. Holmes in 2014.

[Ken_J]

New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin

By Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller
Feb. 26, 2022

Scientists released a pair of extensive studies on Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Analyzing data from a variety of sources, they concluded that the coronavirus was very likely present in live mammals sold in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in late 2019 and suggested that the virus twice spilled over into people working or shopping there. They said they found no support for an alternate theory that the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.

“When you look at all of the evidence together, it’s an extraordinarily clear picture that the pandemic started at the Huanan market,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author of both studies.

It seems to me that that has pretty well been established, and it seems equally as obvious that there is a paranoid subset of the population that will never believe it's not some vast conspiracy. The critical thinking skills to differentiate skepticism and oppositional straw-manning seems to be a rare trait.

too much of the who created the virus, it's really just a flu that isn't even killing as many as they claim, the vaccines will change your DNA, ... Is all rooted in resistance to being told anything by somebody that might be more knowledgable than them. No amount of reasoning resolves their resistence to being told things.

[raklian]

too much of the who created the virus, it's really just a flu that isn't even killing as many as they claim, the vaccines will change your DNA, ... Is all rooted in resistance to being told anything by somebody that might be more knowledgable than them. No amount of reasoning resolves their resistence to being told things.

Oppositional defiant disorder or variations of it, enough said.