Posts tagged "corona":
Vaccine troubles
Earlier attempts at making vaccines for corona virusses seemed to have failed, since the vaccination made things worse uppon challenging:
Risk for ADE is significant, based on eperiences with earlier Corona-vaccines:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/
For extra explanation on how the immunesystem can overreact to an infection:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097326/
Criticism of Lockdowns
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
The British mutation story
There seems to be nothing that works against the spread of the corona virus. But a lot of data can be collected:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.422555v2.full
And an interesting thing is found:
https://www.gisaid.org/references/gisaid-in-the-news/uk-reports-new-variant-termed-vui-20201201/
So there is a variant that got more common in parts of the UK. "[A]ssociated with where we are seeing increasing rates of covid-19" - Nick Loman:
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4857
All kinds of "maybe" conclusions can be drawn from it:
And another scare is born. The only solution is for people to get tired of it.
Some criticism of the scare:
False positives in PCR test
The WHO gave a recommendation to use the PCR test differently. It is not enough for a diagnosis, and using it as such might result in lots of false positives.
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2020-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users
The gist is:
Consider any positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) or negative results (SARS-CoV-2 not detected) in combination with specimen type, clinical observations, patient history, and epidemiological information.