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Omicron variant could boost immunity against Delta and eventually displace it: study

Natalie Colarossi
Newsweek
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:02 UTC
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© PIERRE CROM/GETTY IMAGESInfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant may provide increased immunity against Delta, according to a new South African study. Here, a passenger of a flight from South Africa is tested for the virus at Amsterdam Schiphol airport on December 2 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Omicron coronavirus infections may provide individuals with increased protection against the Delta variant and pave the way for Delta to eventually become displaced, according to a new study published in South Africa.

Researchers from the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) conducted a small study and found that people who are infected with Omicron, especially those who are vaccinated, gain stronger immunity against Delta.

The research involved 13 Omicron patients, seven of which were vaccinated and one who had received a booster shot. To conduct the study, the scientists measured how well participants were able to neutralize Omicron and Delta upon enrollment, and 14 days later. During that time-frame, they found that neutralization of Omicron generally increased 14-fold, while Delta neutralization increased 4.4-fold.

According to the paper, vaccinated participants "were able to mount a better neutralizing response against Delta" while those who were unvaccinated had "more variable" responses.
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Scientists discover new muscle layer in the human jaw

David Nield
Science Alert
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:00 UTC
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It turns out there are still exciting new discoveries to be made in a field as well-studied as human anatomy: researchers have confirmed the existence of a layer of muscle in the human jaw that has until now eluded anatomists.

This new muscle is a deeper, third section of the masseter muscle. It's the most prominent jaw muscle: press your hand against the back of your jaw while you chew and you'll feel it moving.

Typically represented as having just two layers, there has been suspicions based on animal studies that there is more to its structure. However until now, attempts to describe it have been contradictory and confusing.

Comment: These discoveries reveal how much we've still to learn about our own bodies, never mind the wider world: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health #25 - Fascia - The Body's "Fiber Optic" Crystalline Matrix

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'Tis the Season to be Tested?

Rosemary Frei, MSc
Rosemaryfrei.ca
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
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Officials in many jurisdictions are reporting skyrocketing case rates, stoking ever greater fear of the Mighty Omicron.

Yet the breathless, wall-to-wall, MSM coverage doesn't mention that the jump in cases is very likely simply due to the testing rate shooting through the roof.

Instead the MSM is having a field day, thanks to most people's gullibility. And that includes promoting mass testing, early and often.

The media report that new studies are showing people infected with Omicron are far less likely to have severe disease or to be hospitalized than those detected to have Delta, and also usually are vaxxed or have had Covid.

Yet media quote researchers, politicians and public-health officials as warning that the high Omicron case numbers suggest health-care-system capacity could soon be pushed past the limit.

Comment: Er, Omicron (anagram 7 letter word) = Moronic

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UK data shows vaccine effectiveness drops to minus-75% in 18-29 years-olds


The Daily Sceptic
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 21:29 UTC
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© UKHSAVaccine effectiveness drops as it does not allow for the omicron variant
Omicron slices through vaccine protection as booster effect starts to wear off

The latest Vaccine Surveillance report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in unadjusted vaccine effectiveness against infection (calculated from the raw infection rate data) in 18-29 year-olds, down to minus-75% in the month ending December 19th, from minus-10% the previous week.

Unadjusted vaccine effectiveness fell in all age groups this week, particularly sharply in 30-39 year-olds, where it hit minus-98%. In 40-49 year-olds it fell to minus-131%. Negative vaccine effectiveness means the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. A vaccine effectiveness of minus-100% means the vaccinated are twice as likely to be infected as the unvaccinated.

Comment: Nothing that the "fringe" doctors and researchers haven't been warning about for the last year.

"A half truth is a whole lie": The omicron variant, cross-reactive immunity, and the manufactured illusion of an unprecedented virus

A French virologist spells it out:
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic "unthinkable" and a historical blunder that is "creating the variants" and leading to deaths from the disease, LifeSite News reported.

"It's an enormous mistake, isn't it? A scientific error as well as a medical error. It is an unacceptable mistake," Montagnier said in an interview translated and published by the RAIR Foundation US.

"The history books will show that because it is the vaccination that is creating the variants," the report said.

Many epidemiologists know it and are "silent" about the problem known as "antibody-dependent enhancement," Montagnier said.

"It is the antibodies produced by the virus that enable an infection to become stronger," he said in an interview with Pierre Barnerias of Hold-Up Media earlier this month.

While variants of viruses can occur naturally, Montagnier said that vaccination is driving the process. "What does the virus do? Does it die or find another solution?

"It is clear that the new variants are created by antibody-mediated selection due to the vaccination."

Vaccinating during a pandemic is "unthinkable" and is causing deaths, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine said.


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Lockdown policies and mask mandates linked with lower IQ in children

Tammy Hung
The Epoch Times
Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Michel Euler/ AP PhotoHugo Chappaz, 9, left, waits with his father Benoit Chappaz, right, and his mother to be vaccinated at the National Velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, west of Paris, France on Dec. 22, 2021.
The nation's recent lockdown policies and mask mandates will create a generation of children who exhibit lower IQs and signs of social brain damage, according to a clinical psychiatrist for children and adolescents.

Dr. Mark McDonald cited an Aug. 11 study by Brown University (pdf) that found that "children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic," during an interview with host Cindy Drukier on a Dec. 25 episode of NTD's "The Nation Speaks." NTD is a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times.


Comment: See: COVID rules blamed for 23% dive in children's development: Study shows cognitive tests slumped between 2018 and 2021, face masks among possible culprits


The masks, "Zoom schools," and lockdown mandates have led to "deprivation overall, of social contact, [of] not being able to see faces, being stuck at home all day long, [and this] has actually caused brain damage to the youngsters," he said.

Comment: See also:

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Fauci says Covid cases will go much higher as omicron spread continues, warns against getting complacent

Jessica Bursztynsky
CNBC
Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:16 UTC
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© Leah Millis | ReutersDr. Anthony Fauci takes part in a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and other members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team on developments related to the Omicron COVID-19 variant from the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 9, 2021.
Cases of Covid-19 are likely going to keep surging as the omicron variant rapidly spreads across the globe, U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.

"Every day it goes up and up. The last weekly average was about 150,000 and it likely will go much higher," Fauci said on ABC's "This Week."

As of Thursday, before the holiday weekend disrupted Covid trackers, the U.S. had reported more than 51 million total cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. also topped 800,000 total deaths from the disease in mid-December.

Comment: They continue to try to come up with ways to make what is essentially a cold sound scary.
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Don't get complacent!

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Omicron is 80% less likely to hospitalize than prior covid-19 strains, study finds

Dylan Housman
Daily Caller
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:43 UTC
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Individuals with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 are 80% less likely to end up hospitalized than those with prior strains of the virus, according to a new study from South Africa.

The pre-print study from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases found that Omicron has a 70% less risk of severe disease, although once a patient is hospitalized the risk of severe disease is the same as earlier strains. Scientists compared data on recent Omicron infections to Delta infections between April and November.


Comment: Given that the previous variants caused severe illness in a very small percentage of people, and the Omicron is 80% less than that, it sounds like what we're really dealing with is a common cold. And yet, governments around the world are only too eager to being lockdowns and more mandates.

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FDA releases more data on "adverse reactions" to Pfizer vaccine

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC
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As the FDA prepares to approve Pfizer's new pill for treating high-risk patients infected with COVID, more information about dangerous side effects tied to its vaccine are coming to light.

Just yesterday, we reported another death tied to the vaccine in New Zealand. Now, documents released by the FDA reveal that drugmaker Pfizer recorded nearly 160K adverse reactions to its COVID vaccine in the initial months of its rollout.

The data were obtained by a group of doctors, professors, and journalists calling themselves Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. They filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FDA asking for their release. And the first tranche of documents revealed that, as of February 2021, when Pfizer's shot was being rolled out worldwide on an emergency basis, the drugmaker had compiled more than 42K case reports detailing nearly 160K individual adverse reactions to the vaccine.
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Best of the Web: Unintended consequences of mRNA shots: Miscarriages, heart attacks, myopericarditis, thrombocytopenia, shingles, Bell's palsy

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Global Research
Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:46 UTC
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MIT scientist Stephanie Seneff's paper,1 "Worse Than the Disease: Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19," published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research in collaboration with Dr. Greg Nigh, is still one of the best, most comprehensive descriptions of the many possible unintended consequences of the mRNA gene transfer technologies incorrectly referred to as "COVID vaccines."

December 9, 2021, their paper was reprinted in the Townsend Letter, the Examiner of Alternative Medicine.2 Seneff, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at MIT who has been conducting research at MIT for over five decades, has spent a large portion of her career investigating the hazards and mechanisms of action of glyphosate.

Her attention was diverted to the science of mRNA gene transfer technologies in early 2020, when Operation Warp Speed was announced. As noted in her paper, many factors that lacked precedent, yet were being implemented at breakneck speed, included:
  1. The first-ever use of PEG in an injection
  2. The first-ever use of mRNA gene transfer technology against an infectious agent
  3. The first-ever "vaccine" to make no clear claims about reducing infection, transmissibility or death
  4. The first-ever coronavirus vaccine ever tested on humans (and previous coronavirus vaccines all failed due to antibody-dependent enhancement, a condition in which the antibodies actually facilitate infection rather than defend against it)
  5. The first-ever use of genetically modified polynucleotides in the general population
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Covid vaccines could cause menstrual changes - study


RT
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:06 UTC
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Young women are experiencing changes in their periods, including heavier bleeding, after receiving both first and second anti-coronavirus shots, a study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) suggests.

Women aged between 18 and 30 who took part in a large population study conducted by NIPH this year reported an increase in the incidence of menstrual changes. "Many women reported heavier periods than normal after the first and second vaccine dose," said the study released this week.

While some 7.6% of participants experienced heavier bleeding before vaccination, the number of women reporting heavier periods after the first dose increased to 13.6%. After the second dose, it further grew to 15.3%.

Changes after the first dose are "transient," according to the study, which claims bleeding returned to normal levels around two to three months after the jab. However, among those women who experienced changes after the first shot, almost two out of three reported it again after the second dose.
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