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AstraZeneca Plc's antibody cocktail was only 33% effective at preventing Covid-19 symptoms in people who had been exposed to the virus, failing a study that was key to the drugmaker's pandemic push.
The trial of 1,121 adult volunteers looked at whether the long-acting antibody combination could protect people who had recently been in contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in places like care homes. The company said it's running other studies of the medicine that could help clarify the findings.
The outcome is a blow to Astra for a drug that was hoped to be a bright spot in the company's pandemic efforts following the mixed success of its vaccine with the University of Oxford. Other drugmakers such as GlaxoSmithKline Plc have had some success in getting similar therapies through clinical tests and approved for people who are at risk of severe disease or can't get vaccinated.
The study, conducted in the U.S. and U.K., showed 23 volunteers who got the AZD7442 cocktail developed symptomatic Covid-19 following exposure to the disease, compared with 17 cases in the placebo group. Twice as many participants got the antibody, but the difference between the two groups wasn't considered statistically significant. The cocktail was well tolerated by participants.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb.
"It's seven boys and three girls. I am happy. I am emotional. I can't talk much," her husband Teboho Tsotetsi told Pretoria News after the birth.One South African official confirmed the births to the BBC, however another said they were yet to see the babies.
A family member, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC that Ms Sithole had had 10 babies - five via natural birth and 5 via caesarean section.
Guinness World Records told the BBC it was investigating Ms Sithole's case.
A woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009 currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive.

A new study, published on the medical site medRxiv on May 31, suggests that severely-ill patients on a ventilator could be helped in their COVID-19 battle by a high dose of hydroxychloroquine (above) and zinc - as promoted by Donald Trump.
Scientists found that, when ventilated patients with a severe version of COVID were given high doses of hydroxychloroquine with zinc, their survival rates could increase dramatically.
Trump said in March 2020 he was taking it to prevent him catching the virus, rather than treat it. He did not become infected until October, and was not treated with the drug.
Comment: And social media are still censoring information about HCQ.
See also:
- YouTube suspends Ron Johnson for one week for recommending HCQ
- Simone Gold, who advocated hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for coronavirus, arrested in connection to US Capitol 'riot'
- Peer-reviewed hydroxychloroquine study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations among early treated outpatients
- Hydroxychloroquine is a cheap and effective remedy for COVID-19: Anthony Fauci's "big lie"
- In control of response panel, Remdesivir maker Gilead is behind the war on Hydroxychloroquine, will make billions
- What is Gilead's role in the war on hydroxychloroquine?
- Hydroxychloroquine works in high-risk patients, and saying otherwise is dangerous
- 'Don't speak for me': Yale doctor battles CNN anchor over effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine
- Objective:Health - The Strange Push to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine
What the emails have revealed is what we in the alternative media have been saying since the beginning - Fauci has been talking out of both sides of his mouth, saying one thing in private correspondence while telling the nation, and indeed the world, something entirely different.
Overall, Fauci was told about the credible theory that Covid was leaked from a lab, having telltale signs of being an engineered virus early in the Covid circus, despite vehemently denying the possibility in public and actively worked within his organization to downplay the lab leak theory and promote the evolutionary origin teory. He was also well aware that masks were essentially useless for stopping viral spread.
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This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first report of what was subsequently dubbed 'acquired immunodeficiency syndrome' or 'AIDS.'
Officials like Anthony Fauci are using the occasion to spread the message that vaccines for HIV, which is the virus said to cause AIDS, will soon be rolling out. Forty years of fruitless effort supposedly are suddenly successful thanks to the precedent of the lightening-speed and 'successful' development of Covid vaccines.
Fauci said June 4 in an MSNBC interview by Rachel Maddow that because of "the technologies that have now been perfected, particularly the mRNA technology and other vaccine platforms that were perfected and used in Covid-19, I believe strongly we'll go back and be able to really forward and advance the HIV [vaccine] effort."
Now the issue of vaccination has been brought forward for children with limited studies demonstrating COVID-19 antibodies after vaccination. These registrational studies for the mRNA vaccines demonstrated no clinical benefit. Conversely, data from the VAERS system demonstrates that more children will be harmed with the mRNA vaccines than will benefit from immunization against SARS-CoV-2.
In the end, it appears that the vaccine stakeholders: Pfizer, Moderna, JNJ, NIH, CDC, FDA, those entities that stand to benefit from a "needle-in-every-arm" want children to become vaccinated not for the benefit of the children, but for the perceived protection of others.
"From the beginning Covid has been a conspiracy against health and life. Covid is a profit-making agenda and an agenda for increasing arbitrary government power over people. There should be massive law suits and massive arrests of those who block effective Covid cures and impose a deadly vaccine."The Spike Protein is a "uniquely dangerous" transmembrane fusion protein that is an integral part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. "The S protein plays a crucial role in penetrating host cells and initiating infection." It also damages the cells in the lining of the blood vessel walls which leads to blood clots, bleeding, massive inflammation and death.
Paul Craig Roberts, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan
To say that the spike protein is merely "dangerous", is a vast understatement. It is a potentially-lethal pathogen that has already killed tens of thousands of people.
So, why did the vaccine manufacturers settle on the spike protein as an antigen that would induce an immune response in the body?
That's the million-dollar question, after all, for all practical purposes, the spike protein is a poison. We know that now due to research that was conducted at the Salk Institute. Here's a summary of what they found:

The authors said it was 'important to stress' that 'most people who undertake vigorous exercise do not develop MND'
The findings, published in the journal EBioMedicine, "show a causal relationship between exercise and MND, with high-intensity physical activity likely to contribute to motor neurone injury, but only in individuals with a predisposing genetic profile," said the study by a team at the University of Sheffield.
High-profile sportsmen to have developed MND include Scotland rugby international Doddie Weir, soccer player Stephen Darby and late South African Rugby World Cup winner Joost van der Westhuizen.
"We have suspected for some time that exercise was a risk factor for MND, but until now this link was considered controversial," said Johnathan Cooper-Knock of the University of Sheffield.
VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed.
Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date, usually about a week prior to the release date. Today's data show that between Dec. 14, 2020 and June 4, a total of 329,021 total adverse events were reported to VAERS, including 5,888 deaths — an increase of 723 deaths over the previous week. There were 28,441 serious injury reports, up 3,082 compared with last week.
Among 12- to 17-year-olds, there were 59 reports of heart inflammation and 19 cases of blood clotting disorders.
Contact with viral pathogens happens on a fairly regular basis and although it does not always lead to sickness, the exposure helps shore the immune system against the threat should the bugs be encountered again.
Comment: You can put this in the bag of things everyone already knew and which should have been taken into account but weren't.
Over the past 14 months or so, protracted restrictions on mixing and travel, alongside mask-wearing and social distancing, have not only reduced the risk of Covid but other respiratory bugs such as the flu - cases of which were basically nonexistent last winter, according to surveillance data largely encompassing England compiled by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP).
However, virologists are concerned about RSV, a virus that can cause serious lung infections requiring hospital admission, and sometimes even death, in children under the age of one - and for which there are no approved vaccines.
"Flu worries me, but there is a vaccine - and so the most vulnerable will still have access to the vaccines," said Dr Catherine Moore, consultant clinical scientist for Public Health Wales. She warned that RSV currently has no vaccine. "Whereas what Covid has done has caused a big issue in our adult ICUs, we may see conversely problems in our paediatric hospitalisations and intensive care," she said.













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