The 1918 Spanish flu is said to have been one of the most highly virulent, contagious diseases of all time, but when researchers attempted to spread it from person to person — by directly spraying “infectious” secretions into people’s noses, eyes and throats — no one got sick. https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/studies-question-transmission-1918-spanish-flu
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USA TODAY reports “Two-thirds of Americans say they won’t get COVID-19 vaccine when it’s first available”
Two-thirds of U.S. voters say they won’t try to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available and one in four say they don’t want to get it ever, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk poll released the same week that the number of COVID-19 cases surpassed 6 million. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/04/covid-19-two-thirds-us-wont-take-vaccine-right-away-poll-shows/5696982002/
New York Times reports “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.”
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively…
Associated Press reports “UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine”
The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan — one from South Darfur state and the…
Jennifer Margulis reports “Natural Treatments for Coronavirus”
Naturopathic doctors and Chinese medicine practitioners have natural treatments for coronavirus. These remedies have been tremendously successful. But when doctors share their COVID-19 treatment protocols with their patients, via private email lists or in articles posted on the web, they’re being shut down by government censors.
AIMSIB reports “COVID serious, admit the existence of facilitating antibodies”
The phenomenon of facilitating viral infections by antibodies exists for many viruses including coronaviruses. Instead of behaving as described by classical immunology (protective effect), antibodies allow the virus to penetrate target cells more easily. This mechanism could make a future vaccine against Covid-19 dangerous: this effect was demonstrated in animal tests with SARS1 vaccine candidates…
MSN reports “CDC: 94% of Covid-19 deaths had underlying medical conditions”
ATLANTA, Ga. (WEYI) – The Centers for Disease Control released information showing how many people who died from COVID-19 had comorbidities or underlying conditions as they are sometimes referred to by doctors. According to the CDC, comorbidity is defined as: ” more than one disease or condition is present in the same person at the same…
Fox News reports “CDC changes coronavirus testing guidance; asymptomatic people no longer require test”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says asymptomatic people no longer need to get tested for the novel coronavirus, a quiet change the federal agency recently made to its online guidelines regarding COVID-19. “You do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider or state or local public health officials recommend…
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reports “COVID – What have we learned?”
We have learned that people who are asymptomatic can, cannot, can, cannot, can, cannot, can… spread the virus. That the accuracy of PCR antigen testing is brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless. That false positive tests are impossible, common, impossible, common, impossible, common. That facemasks are useless, necessary, useless, necessary, useless… absolutely necessary. COVID –…
Washington University reports “Boosting immune system a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19”
New findings from a team of researchers led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis point to another theory and suggest that patients become ill because their immune systems can’t do enough to protect them from the virus, landing them in intensive care units. They suggest that boosting immunity could be…