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The right to healthy food: Comorbidities & COVID-19

Colin Todhunter
OffGuardian
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:46 UTC
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In early 2020, we saw the beginning of the COVID-19 'pandemic'. The world went into lockdown and even after lockdowns in various countries had been lifted, restrictions continued.

Data now shows that lockdowns seemingly had limited if any positive impacts on the trajectory of COVID-19 and in 2022 the world - especially the poor - is paying an immense price not least in terms of loss of income, loss of livelihoods, the deterioration of mental and physical health, the eradication of civil liberties, disrupted supply chains and shortages.

Before proceeding, the distinction should be made between dying from COVID and dying with COVID.

Those classified as dying with COVID include people entering hospital and testing positive while there, but they died due to other reasons, or they had chronic underlying conditions which possibly caused their death and COVID may or may not have been a complicating factor.

In the US, the Center for Disease Control provides a list of comorbid conditions in COVID-19 patients, which includes cancer, chronic kidney disease, heart disease, Down syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Best of the Web: CDC study finds natural immunity is superior to vaccine immunity: long-lasting and broad spectrum


The Daily Sceptic
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:59 UTC
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© NIAID-RML/FILE PHOTO/HANDOUT VIA REUTERSThis undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab.

Comment: So the CDC has finally acknowledged the intuitive wisdom of centuries, not to mention a pile of previous studies. Huzzah?


A study by the U.S. CDC (a Federal Government health agency) has found that natural immunity is superior to vaccine immunity alone, and that being vaccinated on top makes little difference, confirming the findings of several studies in other countries.

The study looked at Covid infection and hospitalisation rates in California and New York during the Delta period, June to November 2021. The chart below shows the hazard rates over time for the four cohorts (no vaccine and no prior infection; no vaccine and prior infection; vaccine and no prior infection; vaccine and prior infection) for hospital admissions, adjusted for age - focus especially on the relative heights of the three dashed lines near the bottom.

The authors write: "These results demonstrate that vaccination protects against COVID-19 and related hospitalisation, and that surviving a previous infection protects against a reinfection and related hospitalisation." Note that the unvaccinated group here is split between those who are and are not previously infected, so is not directly comparable to the UKHSA data which does not make this distinction.

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Why are pandemic babies developmentally stunted?

Peter Andrews
RT
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:07 UTC
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Babies born during the first year of the pandemic are developmentally and cognitively behind where they should be... and it isn't because of the virus itself. That is the shocking finding from a major new study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on 255 babies born at a New York hospital between March and December of 2020.


Comment: See: Objective:Health - The Pandemic Charade is Making Kids Dumber


In screening tests of gross motor, fine motor, and social skills done at the age of six months, pandemic babies scored lower than pre-pandemic babies. Whether the mother had Covid during the pregnancy, however, made no difference to the babies' development - regardless of how severe the infection was. So, if the damage wasn't down to the virus, what did cause it?

I spoke to Dr. Dani Dumitriu, co-author of the study and paediatrician at Columbia University, to find out more. She points out that although pandemic babies' scores were only slightly lower, these average differences could have profound long-term effects on an entire generation.

Comment: The extreme overreaction to a respiratory virus not much worse than a bad cold has cost our society dearly, but the effect on children is unforgivable. If there is any such thing as universal justice, the controllers behind the 'pandemic' will burn for this.

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WHO says there's no evidence healthy children and adolescents need Covid boosters

Jessica Bursztynsky
CNBC
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:32 UTC
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© Fabrice Coffrini | ReutersWorld Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva Switzerland July 3, 2020.
There's "no evidence right now" that suggests healthy children and adolescents need booster shots to supplement their Covid-19 vaccinations, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said Tuesday.

Swaminathan said the agency's advisory group, called Sage, or the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, will meet later this week to consider how countries should think about giving booster shots.

"The aim is to protect the most vulnerable, to protect those at highest risk of severe disease and dying, those are our elderly population, immunocompromised with underlying conditions and also health care workers," Swaminathan said WHO media briefing.

Dr. Michael Ryan, executive direction of the WHO's health emergencies program, said the agency still hasn't figured out how often or how many doses people will ultimately need.

Comment: See also:

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Study finds that even mild cases of Covid-19 affect memory & attention


RT
Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:43 UTC
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Moderate symptoms still cause long-term cognitive consequences, Oxford University researchers reveal

Scientists from Britain's Oxford University have revealed that people who have had mild Covid-19 and didn't suffer from other widespread 'long Covid' symptoms in daily life still show degraded attention and memory for six to nine months after infection.

Participants of the latest study had tested positive for Covid-19 previously, but didn't report any 'long Covid' symptoms often present after acute infection, nor other health concerns after recovery. They were not much different from an uninfected control group at the time of testing on factors such as fatigue, forgetfulness, sleep patterns or anxiety.

Comment: There are several factors not mentioned, such as the vaccination status of the 'mild' covid cases. The nature of the spike proteins of the SARs family are conducive to formation of microclots which can manifest many different symptoms of organ damage depending on where they form. The cognitive impairments reported sound suspiciously like micro-strokes.

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Crumbling narrative: Study casts doubt on effectiveness of Covid testing at schools


RT
Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:10 UTC
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© AP Photo/Elaine ThompsonA one year-old is held by his mother,while being tested for COVID-1
Low performance of antigen tests makes it difficult to evaluate the real scale of Omicron spread in schools

Rapid Covid-19 tests have demonstrated low effectiveness in detecting the virus in children, a team of British and German researchers has said, casting doubt on school testing programs.

Scientists from the University of Manchester and Germany's Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care analyzed 17 studies published between January 2020 and May 2021, involving 6,355 children who used eight antigen tests from six different brands.

Comment: Took them long enough.

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Best of the Web: Large British study finds risk of myocarditis doubles after each mRNA jab

Seth Hancock
The Liberty Loft
Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:12 UTC
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A study coming out of Britain showed an alarming increase in the risk for myocarditis, which is inflammation in the heart, after every mRNA jab, particularly in males under 40.

The study was published last month, and it analyzed data from over 42 million people 13 and older who have taken a COVID-19 shot. It was conducted by various researchers from institutions at the University of Oxford, University of Leicester, University of Edinburgh, King's College London and University of Nottingham.

The findings showed that myocarditis risk doubled after one jab, doubled again after a second jab and doubled yet again after a third booster jab.


Comment: This doubling of the risk was for males below 40 where the incidence rate ratio per million receiving BNT162b2 from Pfizer-BioNTech was estimate to be 1.66, 3.41, and 7.60 for first, second and third dose respectively, compared to a pre-risk of 0.59. The numbers are found in Table 1, page 9 and in the diagrams page 13. If you wish to study the paper, it may help to know that for instance "(IRR 3.41, 95% CI 2.44, 4.78)" means the incidence rate ratio is 3.41 with a 95 % confidence interval that the actual number is between 2.44 and 4.78. What the researchers aimed to do was to estimate "the number of excess myocarditis, events per million persons in the 1-28 days following each exposure for the main analysis and by age and sex."


following each exposure for the main analysis and by age and sex "

"An association between COVID-19 infection and myocarditis was observed in all ages for both sexes but was substantially higher in those older than 40 years," the study's abstract states. "These findings have important implications for public health and vaccination policy."
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Golden blood: The rarest blood type in the world

Kevin Dickinson
Big Think
Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:54 UTC
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
Blood Types
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  • Fewer than 50 people worldwide have "golden blood" — or Rh-null.
  • Blood is considered Rh-null if it lacks all of the 61 possible antigens in the Rh system.
  • It is also very dangerous to live with this blood type, as so few people have it.
Golden blood sounds like the latest in medical quackery, as in, get a golden blood transfusion to balance your tantric midichlorians and receive a free charcoal ice cream cleanse! But don't let the New-Agey moniker throw you. Golden blood is actually the nickname for Rh-null, the world's rarest blood type.

As Mosaic reported, the type is so rare that only about 43 people have been reported to have it worldwide, and until 1961, when it was first identified in an Aboriginal Australian woman, doctors assumed embryos with Rh-null blood would simply die in utero.

But what makes Rh-null so rare, and why is it so dangerous to live with? To answer that, we'll first have to explore why hematologists classify blood types the way they do.
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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Pandemic Charade is Making Kids Dumber


Sott.net
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
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A number of studies have come out recently showing that the lockdowns and social distancing have had a negative effect on children's cognitive development. This is hardly surprising, as an absence of social interaction, with peers and adults, lack of in-person learning, decreased respiration from masks, a lack of facial visual cues due to masks, not to mention constant fear and the instilling of the belief that a child has the ability to accidentally kill grandma - all these self-evidently will have a negative affect on children's neuro development. (This isn't even to get into the lack of exercise, which is directly related to cognitive function).

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we discuss how lockdowns and social distancing are making children (and adults, no doubt) dumber, and all it's wider implications.


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Myocarditis tops list of COVID vaccine injuries among 12-17 year olds, VAERS data show

Megan Redshaw
The Defender
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
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VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,033,994 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 21,745 deaths and 170,446 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2022.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new data showing a total of 1,033,994 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.

The data included a total of 21,745 reports of deaths — an increase of 363 over the previous week — and 170,446 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 3,840 compared with the previous week.

Excluding "foreign reports" to VAERS, 723,042 adverse events, including 9,936 deaths and 64,406 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2022.
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