SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped non-segmented positive-sense RNA virus, classified as a beta coronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), reported as a SARS-CoV-2 receptor, is expressed in different human tissues (lung, intestine, and kidney) and in the testis, ovaries, uterus, and vagina. This suggests a potential risk to the human reproductive tract…
Category: Research Studies
Medical Xpress reports “SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alone may cause lung damage.”
“Our findings show that the SARS-CoV2 spike protein causes lung injury even without the presence of intact virus,” said Pavel Solopov, Ph.D., DVM, research assistant professor at the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics at Old Dominion University. “This previously unknown mechanism could cause symptoms before substantial viral replication occurs.” The researchers found that the genetically modified mice injected…
JCI Insight reports “Anti–spike IgG causes severe acute lung injury by skewing macrophage responses during acute SARS-CoV infection”
Newly emerging viruses, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome CoVs (MERS-CoV), and H7N9, cause fatal acute lung injury (ALI) by driving hypercytokinemia and aggressive inflammation through mechanisms that remain elusive. In SARS-CoV/macaque models, we determined that anti–spike IgG (S-IgG), in productively infected lungs, causes severe ALI by skewing inflammation-resolving…
Swiss Policy Research reports “Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.”
Cloth face masks in the general population might be effective, at least in some circumstances, but there is currently little to no evidence supporting this proposition. If the coronavirus is indeed transmitted via indoor aerosols, cloth masks are unlikely to be protective. Health authorities should therefore not assume or suggest that cloth face masks will…
Journal of Preventative Medicine & Public Health reports “The Big Vitamin D Mistake”
Since 2006, type 1 diabetes in Finland has plateaued and then decreased after the authorities’ decision to fortify dietary milk products with cholecalciferol. The role of vitamin D in innate and adaptive immunity is critical. A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a…
Clinical and Translational Medicine reports “Deceptology in cancer and vaccine sciences: Seeds of immune destruction‐mini electric shocks in mitochondria”
From Rockefeller’s support of patent medicine to Gates’ patent vaccines, medical establishment invested a great deal in intellectual ignorance. Through the control over medical education and research it has created a public illusion to prop up corporate profit and encouraged the lust for money and power. An overview of data on cancer and vaccine sciences,…
Millions Against Medical Mandates reports “Treatments for Covid”
DID YOU KNOW… There are safe and effective treatments and prophylactics that can help obliterate COVID-19 without risky vaccines or disastrous lockdowns?
Nature Medicine reports “Is presymptomatic spread a major contributor to COVID-19 transmission?”
Recent reports have shown COVID-19 transmission prior to disease onset, raising concerns that people who appear healthy maybe major contributors to the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studieshave directly determined the proportion of transmission eventsthat occur before symptom onset, but a recent modeling studyby He et al. inferred that 44% of secondary cases were infectedduring presymptomatic stages…
Reuters reports “Gut bacteria tied to [Covid] disease severity, immune response; high mental health toll seen in ICUs”
The microscopic organisms living in our intestines may influence the severity of COVID-19 and the body’s immune response to it, and could account for lingering symptoms, researchers reported on Monday in the journal Gut. They found that the gut microorganisms in COVID-19 patients were very different from those in uninfected individuals. “COVID patients lack certain…
Autism Open Access reports “Autism is an Acquired Cellular Detoxification Deficiency Syndrome with Heterogeneous Genetic Predisposition”
Abstract: Here, I present a mechanistic biomedical process model (theory) of the pathophysiology of autism that reconciles the apparent paradox between the high degree of causal heterogeneity in environmental toxins, the absence of common “autism genes” and the high degree of genetic concordance (heritability) of ASD and ASD-like traits. In brief, the environmental toxin sampling…