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MIT research scientist says kids should not receive COVID vaccines

Thomas D. Williams
Breitbart
Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:03 UTC
child mask vaccine
© Reuters / Jon Cherry
A research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Thursday that parents should do everything they can to avoid giving their children the coronavirus vaccine, insisting that the potential harm far outweighs the benefits.

I think it is "outrageous to be giving vaccines to young people because they have a very, very low risk of dying from COVID," Dr. Stephanie Seneff said in an on-air interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News Thursday evening.

Seneff, a senior research scientist with MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, said the possible benefits for children from the coronavirus vaccine are minimal and "when you look at the potential harm from these vaccines, it just doesn't make any sense."

Especially with repeated boosters such treatment "will be devastating in the long term," she added.
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Dominoes

Gene that causes resistance to one of 'world's most important antibiotics' discovered in Georgia water

Jennifer Reynolds, University of Georgia
Phys.org
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:00 UTC
gene dna
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A gene that causes bacteria to be resistant to one of the world's most important antibiotics, colistin, has been detected in sewer water in Georgia. The presence of the MCR-9 gene is a major concern for public health because it causes antimicrobial resistance, a problem that the World Health Organization has declared "one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity."

Researchers from the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety (CFS) collected sewage water from an urban setting in Georgia to test for the MCR gene in naturally present bacteria. Led by College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences assistant professor Issmat Kassem, whose research focuses on MCR's presence around the world, the team was surprised at how quickly they detected MCR — they found evidence of the gene in the first sample they took.

Comment: Note that there are reports going back 7 years ago that sounded a similar alarm over antibiotic resistant MCR genes, and so whilst stories like this are a cause for concern, and highlight where our world has gone wrong, one must also take a reasoned approach, because the lockdowns have taught us that corrupt bodies like the WHO and the governments it's aligned with will hijack issues like this for their own nefarious goals: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Syphilitic Superpower: The rise of STDs

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SOTT Focus: SARS-CoV-2 is a Real Virus And it HAS Been Isolated on Numerous Occasions

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:55 UTC
covid lie protest
...sort of
While some still claim SARS-CoV-2 doesn't actually exist, this seems to fly in the face of several well-established facts. The virus has actually been photomicrographed,1,2 whole-genome sequences of the various strains are available,3,4 and with the appropriate credentials anyone can obtain the live virus to conduct research.

While I am absolutely no fan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they do grow the virus in cell culture to ensure widespread availability for researchers who want to study it.5 Examples of research where you need the actual virus include antiviral research, vaccine development, virus stability research and pathogenesis research.6

What's the Confusion?

At least part of the confusion appears to be rooted in how the term "isolated" is defined. Some insist a virus is not isolated unless it's also purified, while others say a virus doesn't have to be purified in order to be "isolated."
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Syringe

Best of the Web: Omicron in Scotland: Covid case rates lowest in UNVACCINATED, double-jabbed elderly are driving rise in hospital admissions

Helen McArdle
Herald Scotland
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:05 UTC

Comment: Oh dear. There goes THAT rationale for jabbing everyone multiple times per year...


covid hospital scotland omicron
© Jeff MitchellOmicron, which is more transmissible than previous Covid strains but also more able to reinfect recovered people and evade vaccine immunity, is leading to highly unusual patterns in patient data
Double-jabbed Scots are now more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid than the unvaccinated amid an increase in elderly people falling ill due to waning immunity.

It comes amid "weird" data showing that case rates have been lower in unvaccinated individuals than the single, double, or even triple-jabbed since Omicron became the dominant variant in Scotland.

The counterintuitive data from Public Health Scotland (PHS) contradicts previous pandemic trends which have consistently shown infection, hospitalisation and death rates to be highest among the unvaccinated.


Comment: It's over guys, just drop it!

The vaccine experiment results are in: they have NEGATIVE EFFICACY. They're worsening Covid outcomes, not improving them.

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Best of the Web: Melatonin linked to significantly reduced COVID-19 mortality

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:14 UTC
Melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone synthesized in your pineal gland and several other organs,1 indeed in most cells, including human lung monocytes and macrophages, as it is actually synthesized in your mitochondria.2

While most well-known as a natural sleep regulator, melatonin also has many other important functions.3 Notably, it plays an important role in cancer prevention4 and may prevent or improve certain autoimmune diseases, such as Type 1 diabetes.5

It also has anticonvulsant and anti-excitotoxic properties,6 and is a potent antioxidant7 with the rare ability to enter your mitochondria,8 where it helps prevent mitochondrial impairment, energy failure and the death of mitochondria damaged by oxidation.9 It also:
  • Boosts immune function
  • Helps recharge glutathione10 (and glutathione deficiency has been linked to COVID-19 severity)
  • May improve the treatment of certain bacterial diseases, including tuberculosis11
  • Helps regulate gene expression via a series of enzymes12
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Crusader

Cannabinoids from hemp prevent covid-19 coronavirus from entering human cells

Oregon State University
SciTechDaily
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:35 UTC
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Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the ability to prevent the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells.

Findings of the study led by Richard van Breemen, a researcher with Oregon State's Global Hemp Innovation Center, College of Pharmacy, and Linus Pauling Institute, were published on January 10, 2022, in the Journal of Natural Products.

Hemp, known scientifically as Cannabis sativa, is a source of fiber, food, and animal feed, and multiple hemp extracts and compounds are added to cosmetics, body lotions, dietary supplements, and food, van Breemen said.

Van Breemen and collaborators, including scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, found that a pair of cannabinoid acids bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking a critical step in the process the virus uses to infect people.

Comment: This might also be helpful in attenuating the effects the mRNA gene thereapy.

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Health

Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet

Robin McKie
The Guardian
Sun, 09 Jan 2022 20:46 UTC
Rheumatoid arthritis
© BSIP/UIG/Getty ImagesRheumatoid arthritis is one of the autoimmune conditions that are causing concern around the world
More and more people around the world are suffering because their immune systems can no longer tell the difference between healthy cells and invading micro-organisms. Disease defences that once protected them are instead attacking their tissue and organs.

Major international research efforts are being made to fight this trend - including an initiative at London's Francis Crick Institute, where two world experts, James Lee and Carola Vinuesa, have set up separate research groups to help pinpoint the precise causes of autoimmune disease, as these conditions are known.

"Numbers of autoimmune cases began to increase about 40 years ago in the west," Lee told the Observer. "However, we are now seeing some emerge in countries that never had such diseases before.

For example, the biggest recent increase in inflammatory bowel disease cases has been in the Middle East and east Asia. Before that they had hardly seen the disease."
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Repeated Covid boosters not a viable strategy: WHO


Medical Xpress
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:01 UTC
covid booster
WHO experts warned Tuesday that repeating booster doses of the original COVID vaccines is not a viable strategy against emerging variants and called for new jabs that better protect against transmission.

An expert group created by the World Health Organization to assess the performance of COVID-19 vaccines said simply providing fresh jabs of existing COVID vaccines as new strains of the virus emerge was not the best way to fight the pandemic.

"A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable," the WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-Co-VAC) said in a statement.

Comment: See also:

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Some healthcare workers have pre-existing immunity to Covid, study finds

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:58 UTC
health care workers
The question of whether some people have pre-existing immunity to Covid has been with us since the early days of the pandemic. Many scientists initially assumed there would be little or no pre-existing immunity. After all, SARS-CoV-2 was novel, highly infectious virus that appeared well adapted for human transmission.

However, in the spring of 2020, scientists began to report cross-reactive T-cell activity in people who hadn't been infected with the virus, and - in some cases - in those who hadn't even been exposed. However, it remained unclear whether such T-cell activity played any role in immunity.

Were individuals with cross-reactive T-cells less likely to become infected? Were they less likely to get seriously ill, conditional upon being infected? We simply didn't know. Some even speculated that T-cell activity might predispose to more severe disease...

Comment: Since the beginning of the 'pandemic,' the authorities have acted as though the immune system doesn't even exist and that the only protection against Covid was a vaccine. That narrative has long since crumbled, although this fact has yet to reach the masses (and is, in fact, being blocked quite deliberately). Unfortunately, it's unlikely this study will do anything to change that.

See also:

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The Imperial College finally acknowledges pre-existing immunity to COVID-19. What took it so long?


The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:59 UTC
t-cells immune system
© Design_Cells / ShutterstockT cells or T lymphocytes, which are one of the significant components of the adaptive immune system, play a more prominent role in the response against the coronavirus than antibodies.
T-cells from common cold coronaviruses can provide protection against COVID-19, an Imperial College London study has found. Reuters reports on the findings, which were published in Nature.
The study, which began in September 2020, looked at levels of cross-reactive T-cells generated by previous common colds in 52 household contacts of positive COVID-19 cases shortly after exposure, to see if they went on to develop infection.

It found that the 26 who did not develop infection had significantly higher levels of those T-cells than people who did get infected. Imperial did not say how long protection from the T-cells would last.

"We found that high levels of pre-existing T cells, created by the body when infected with other human coronaviruses like the common cold, can protect against COVID-19 infection," study author Dr Rhia Kundu said.
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