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Asymptomatic viral infections in newborns linked to respiratory infections later in life

University of Edinburgh
Medical Xpress
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:00 UTC
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Asymptomatic viral infections in the first days and weeks of a baby's life are associated with an increased risk of respiratory infections later in life, research suggests.

Viruses were found to interact with newborns' immune systems and microbiomes — the community of microbes that live in our body — in a way that affected both a child's risk and number of subsequent infections.

Prevention of such early viral infections, or strengthening immune systems with specially designed probiotics, may avert this risk, experts say.

The microbiome of a newborn baby can be influenced by many things, including delivery method — vaginal or cesarean section — breastfeeding, antibiotics and the hospital environment.


Comment: Rather than 'preventing early viral infections' or intervention with 'specially designed probiotics', research is increasingly showing that improving the overall health of the mother, delivering the baby vaginally, and breastfeeding, all directly contribute to the improved health of the baby. It's also likely that improving the health of the father before and after conception will have similar effects.


Comment: The claim that the best course of action would be to limit exposure to viruses seems to contradict many of the findings that gained recognition during the lockdowns. These showed that allowing the circulation of a virus can in fact reduce its harmful effects both in priming and strengthening one's immune system, as well the effect they have in forcing the virus to mutate which tends to result in milder strains.

Lockdowns also proved that limited human interaction, prolonged and heightened periods of stress, inadequate nutrition, sunlight and fresh air, only serve to make people more vulnerable to the harm caused by some viruses:

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Health

Best of the Web: The disease of modern medicine

Alex Berenson
Substack
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:56 UTC
covid africa
The meek have not inherited the coronavirus.

Half of African countries have Covid death rates lower than 1 in 10,000 people - less than one-twentieth the American rate.

These low death rates are NOT because the coronavirus has missed Africa somehow. Antibody testing across the continent shows very high rates of Covid infection and recovery.

Malawi, population 20 million, has had fewer than 2,600 Covid deaths. Yet as NPR reported last week in a piece called "Africa may have reached the pandemic's holy grail," up to 80 percent of people in Malawi had Covid antibodies by last summer.

Much of this advantage is due to demographics. The average Malawian just turned 18 and is thus at little risk. Still, African countries collectively have about 150 million people over 50. About one-third of those are over 65.

To care for this population, Africa has only a relative handful of hospitals that meet Western standards - a gap that led to predictions of disaster.
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Bullseye

The truth is coming out about the Covid death count

Dr. Joseph Mercola
mercola.com
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:28 UTC
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Early on in the COVID pandemic, people suspected that the deaths attributed to the infection were exaggerated. There was plenty of evidence for this. For starters, hospitals were instructed and incentivized to mark any patient who had a positive COVID test and subsequently died within a certain time period as a COVID death.

At the same time, we knew that the PCR test was unreliable, producing inordinate amounts of false positives. Now, the truth is finally starting to come out and, as suspected, the actual death toll is vastly lower than we were led to believe.
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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Great Narrative Shift: Are 'Easing Restrictions' a Good Sign?


Sott.net
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
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We are in the midst of a narrative shift, apparent in the about face we're seeing governments and corporate media take in the ever-present propaganda spew. What was unacceptable speech a month ago is now acceptable government and media talking points. What used to get you kicked off of social media are now BBC headlines.

The question we address today is: why? While the tweetosphere is ringing with cheers about how "freedom won!" and the like, there's no real reason to believe this is the case. Nothing immediately obvious has changed in the grand scheme of things.

Join us for this episode of Objective:Health as we look into the great narrative shift - is this just the next phase in the grand plan?


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Late to the party: Japanese company says Ivermectin shows 'antiviral effect' against COVID


Reuters
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:20 UTC
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Japanese trading and pharmaceuticals company Kowa Co Ltd on Monday said that anti-parasite drug ivermectin showed an "antiviral effect" against Omicron and other coronavirus variants in joint non-clinical research.

The company, which has been working with Tokyo's Kitasato University here on testing the drug as a potential treatment for COVID-19, did not provide further details.

Clinical trials are ongoing, but promotion of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment has generated controversy here.

Comment: Who flipped the switch that suddenly it's okay to report a story now, that would have gotten one booted from mainstream news and social media not eight months ago? Thousands besides Joe Rogan would like to know.

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Aortic Stenosis: The latest heart attack scapegoat

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:15 UTC
heart attack
In only our second article of this new year, This Year in the New Normal, OffG predicted that a major news story of 2022 would involve predicting and explaining heart problems that hadn't actually happened yet.

Not even a month later, we've already been proven right.
"Urgent warning as 300,000 Brits living with stealth disease that could kill within 5 years"
That's a Sun headline from three days ago.

The article is about a recent study, which apparently found that aortic valve stenosis is likely far more prevalent in the community than previously thought.

Aortic Stenosis (AS) is a disease affecting the valve of the heart which connects to the aorta, causing it to never open fully and making it more difficult for blood to flow.

Those with AS can suffer fatigue, chest pains, dizzy spells and even sudden death. Known complications include blood clots, which can lead to strokes or heart attacks.

According to the article...

Comment: See also:

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Pills

Pfizer's poison Covid pill

Rosemary Frei
Rosemaryfrei.ca
Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Covid-19
Pfizer's Paxlovid is being rolled out around the world. But in some ways it's even more experimental than the pharma company's Covid shot. Health Canada -- like the US FDA, a decades-long ally of the pharma industry -- admits that "Not many people have taken Paxlovid. Serious and unexpected side effects may happen."

The gigantic truck convoys are rolling toward Ottawa, accompanied by wall-to-wall supporters and media coverage.

At the same time though, Pfizer's Paxlovid is starting to be rolled out relatively quietly across North America, Europe, the U.K. and beyond.

It's a set of pills for Covid - and it's the second part of a one-two punch that started with the company's mRNA Covid shot. Together, they're powering Pfizer to dizzying levels of profit and market capitalization.
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Ambulance

UK scientists: Tougher Covid restrictions in Scotland and Wales 'haven't made any difference'

Luke Andrews
The Daily Mail
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:19 UTC
cumulative death rate covid Britain
© Office for National StatisticsThe cumulative Covid death rate for the four UK nations based on data from the Office for National Statistics, which counts every death certificate that mentions Covid. It reveals that despite its tough curbs Wales has the highest Covid death rate
Official stats show Wales has UK's worst death rate - not England

Decisions by Scotland and Wales to rely on tougher Covid restrictions throughout the pandemic may not have been 'worth it', scientists said today.

Nicola Sturgeon is still yet to commit to a date for ending work from home guidance, despite England dumping the advice last week, while Mark Drakeford is refusing to lift the highly-controversial 'rule of six' for another four days. Both nations resorted to tougher Covid curbs than England early out in the pandemic, and kept people living under economically-cripping curbs for longer.

But experts told MailOnline they could not see a 'huge amount of difference' in the cumulative death rates between England and the rest of the UK.

Comment: From the Daily Sceptic:
covid deaths great britain overall
© UK Office for National Statistics
Winter deaths are usually running high at this point in January, but this year is different. According to the latest figures from the ONS, released today, in the week ending January 14th there were 6.1% fewer deaths than the five-year average in England and Wales (872 fewer deaths). Note that the five-year average the ONS uses doesn't include 2020, but 2016-19 (which has historically low mortality) and 2021.

In the previous week there were 7.8% fewer deaths than the five-year average (1,036 fewer deaths).

A reflection of the mildness of Omicron and the level of immunity in the population, this makes 2021-22 a mild flu season, and further underlines how unjustified any measures to combat coronavirus now are. The state of emergency and all laws and guidance - including the vaccine mandates - must be removed without delay so that healthy normality can be restored.


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2021 less deadly than 2015, ONS data show

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:10 UTC
mortality rates
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Many lockdown sceptics have recently been sharing statistics from the ONS showing that just 17,371 people died of Covid in England and Wales up to the end of September 2021 where COVID-19 was the only cause of death recorded on the death certificate. This compares to 148,536 official Covid deaths in the same period (also for England and Wales, as are the estimates below) where COVID-19 was mentioned as a cause of death somewhere on the death certificate. Separately, the Government dashboard reported 126,384 deaths recorded as occurring within 28 days of a positive Covid test in the same period, while the ONS reported 117,247 excess deaths.
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Attention

CDC 'Pivoting its language' on vaccination status

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:07 UTC
Moving forward people will need regular boosters to be "up to date", & they won't be using the term "fully vaccinated" anymore.
Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Center for Disease Control, told the media on Friday that the CDC is intending to "pivot the language" regarding the Covid19 vaccines.
Rochelle Walensky,
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Speaking to the press briefing, Dr Walenksy had a very obvious message she really wanted to hammer home :
And what we really are working to do is pivot the language to make sure that everybody is as up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines as they personally could be, should be, based on when they got their last vaccine. So, importantly, right now, we're pivoting our language. We really want to make sure people are up to date. That means if you recently got your second dose, you're not eligible for a booster, you're up to date. If you are eligible for a booster and you haven't gotten it, you're not up to date and you need to get your booster in order to be up to date.
(You can watch the full briefing here.)

It's pretty clear that "say "up to date", not "fully vaccinated", was underlined in the memo. As was "pivot the language", but what does it actually mean?
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