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  • his is obviously THH's anti vaxx definition. No being 100% for killing healthy children that have 0 risk too.

    To address healthy children have 0 risk:


    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.07.21259779v1.full.pdf#page=8


    Looking at COVID deaths vs no of comorbidites in this reference group of CYP (< 18 years) deaths, we have 6 with no co-morbidities out of a total 25 deaths. Last time I looked, 6 is not the same as zero?

  • Which vaccine, if I may ask?

    I will not take any CoV-19 vaccine because I'm not at risk and have the treatment drugs ready. Further I already had at least one contact. But the first hope is Novavax and even better ones will come may be far to late.


    But the real problem we will face soon is how can we help the gen therapy victims? One year of ACE-2 signaling suppression with " locks= antibodies" will promote completely new picture for chronic diseases. I'm pretty pessimistic for people that take a booster based on the spike.

  • CH death rate is now below 0.1% for unvaccinated of course...

    We would expect unvaccinated to have 0.1% COVID mortality for an age of around 50.


    Since anyone older than 50 (like you) is much less likely to be unvaccinated it seems likely that statistic does not indicate that delta is less lethal than original COVID.


    Like most of the numbers you post, without context, it tells us nothing. In this case the required context is the infection rate amongst unvaccinated of different ages.


    One interesting statistic, Ch had a relatively very low infection rate during first wave amongst older people. Presumably, unlike many other places, they had the good sense not to allow COVID to spread too much in old people's homes, or perhaps have a smaller proportion of older people in such places, or maybe some entirely demographic difference I'm not aware of.


    Coronavirus: the age difference behind lower Swiss death rate
    Switzerland's Covid-19 death rate has been lower than much of the rest of Europe. A lower infection rate among older people appears to be one reason why. ©…
    lenews.ch


    I've not noticed you remarking this in your ,many posts comparing Ch and other countries...


    THH

  • But the first hope is Novavax

    Novavax is a sub-unit vaccine. Why do you think it does not suffer the same over-specificity of the mRNA vaccines?


    I'm not saying it is a bad vaccine - it looks excellent. But so do the mRNA vaccines. Especially when a 3rd dose will likely boost immunity enormously in those for whom it was low in the first two doses...


    https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/2021-07/Delta_Variant_Study_Press_Statement_Final_7.8.21.pdf


    In addition, data from a recent Nature paper demonstrate that immune sera obtained shortly after dose 2 of the primary two dose series of
    BNT162b2 have strong neutralization titers against the Delta variant (B.1.617.2 lineage) in laboratory tests.
    The companies anticipate that a third dose will boost those antibody titers even higher, similar to how the
    third dose performs for the Beta variant (B.1.351). Pfizer and BioNTech are conducting preclinical and
    clinical tests to confirm this hypothesis.
    While Pfizer and BioNTech believe a third dose of BNT162b2 has the potential to preserve the highest
    levels of protective efficacy against all currently known variants including Delta, the companies are
    remaining vigilant and are developing an updated version of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that
    targets the full spike protein of the Delta variant. The first batch of the mRNA for the trial has already been
    manufactured. The Companies anticipate the clinical studies to begin in August, subject to regulatory
    approvals.

  • Well, if they test positive for COVID, surely that means they have COVID? A COVID test would not accidentally come out positive because the patient has RSV, would it?


    Perhaps you -- or the author -- means they got COVID from the hospital? Nosocomial infections. That is what the author seems to be saying: "Now, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that a large number of kids who come to the hospital for RSV in the South will wind up getting COVID in the hospital." I wouldn't know about that, but I think the author should check to see how many other patients are getting nosocomial COVID, and how many RSV pediatric patients have been in hospitals with no COVID patients. There have not been many pediatric COVID cases until recently.

    Yes, of course if they test positive they have COVID. Most kids who test for COVID though are asymptomatic. Many, if not most, of the kids in the hospital are there because they are sick from RSV, then test positive for COVID. So were you a reporter, how would you describe this? Another example of how bad the COVID epidemic is, or something altogether different? Most from what I read, are reporting it as proof COVID has finally hit children hard, where before they were spared.


    The author did say these children may be getting COVID from the hospital. That does not make sense to me. I do not agree with all he says. He could have left that out, and done himself a favor. As it is, he distracted from his good investigative reporting.


    I would like to know, as does he, if this is another "fear porn" news cycle. Are all these kids being hospitalized because of RSV, or COVID? It is very plausible this is nothing more than a bad RSV season, as UK children have not been impacted by the Delta variant like US children...yet.


    Also, it is a fact hospitals get paid much more for a COVID patient, than one with RSV. So there is a financial incentive for them to go along with this COVID narrative, as it was to go along with the PCR cycle threshold controversy last year. Like the old saying goes "follow the money".

  • The infection coefficient remains high in Israel despite high vaccination rate

    and some getting the third Pfizer

    "Finally, a Politician Admits What Israel's COVID Policy Really Means..."

    " Based on the current infection coefficient, within a week there will be 1,200 patients hospitalized,

    half of them in serious condition; the following week this number will double,

    with 2,400 hospitalized and 1,200 seriously ill, and by September 10 we will see numbers we’ve never seen before "

    קורונה - לוח בקרה



  • we have 6 with no co-morbidities out of a total 25 deaths

    Full citation:

    Six CYP who died of SARS-CoV-2 had no evidence of an underlying health condition. This contrasts with other studies which have only reported deaths in CYP who have comorbidity.6,25 It is possible, due to the hospital data only being available for the last five years, that some CYP may have had a comorbidity that was not identified in this linkage. It is also possible that CYP in our study had an undiagnosed genetic predisposition to severe disease with SARS-CoV-2 infection.26


    While Pfizer and BioNTech believe a third dose of BNT162b2 has the potential to preserve the highest
    levels of protective efficacy against all currently known variants including Delta,

    This is a marketing lie. Pfizer did go for the 1.351 virus in the booster -- cricket brains....


    The infection coefficient remains high in Israel despite high vaccination rate

    The graphic nicely shows that the few vaccinated among age <40 (very high for kids age 16..19) have more CoV-19 cases than the unvaccinated. This is expected from Pfizer crap inducing immune insufficiency.

  • Bob Greenyer posted this on ECW.


    Bob Greenyer2 hours ago

    If anyone who finds themselves being coerced or duped into giving permission to someone to take these proven to be useless jabs, and they know someone with a microscope, can they get a series of before and after blood smear images, over the past several months there have been a growing number of independent doctors and more ordinary citizens that are recording huge damage to red blood cells due to various incarnations of these jabs - showing whole sale cell structural changes, clot formation and macro-phage consumption of damaged cells. It would be also interesting to see if there is any recovery and over what period after each injection.

    https://maryrefugeofsouls.c...

    https://stopwrongfulconvict...

    Certainly explains why people are recommended to do no strenuous activities after giving permission to be experimented on, here in Czech they recommend doing nothing much for 2 weeks.

    It also explains why the most educated, such as those with Phds are avoiding the shots.

  • Somone else can reconcile these two statements, I hope?

    Schrodinger’s Wyttenfact.


    And whilst we’re on the topic of irreconcilable statements, how about these:

    I'm anti RNA gen therapy that is a known experimental cancer patient killer...

    But honestly I start to hope that all idiots start to kill themselves with this gen therapy

    but then he’s pleased that:

    So [my children] had Moderna.

  • Re. Bob Greenyer’s latest nuttiness…

    This explains a lot about your thinking. You follow B.G:! strange I never read his posts...


    Did you see the Pfizer RNA gen therapy induced CoV-19 cases among younger 10..29 in Israel. Factors more vaccinated young in hospital compared to unvaccinated...


    Can you tell me when you are through with comparing 311 with 60? that explains the following?

    Certainly explains why people are recommended to do no strenuous activities after giving permission to be experimented on, here in Czech they recommend doing nothing much for 2 weeks.

    This is absolutely correct: After the Pfizer gen therapy you should isolate for 2 weeks. This is also what I did recommend some friends to avoid the Israel early death row for Pfizer gen therapy victims.

  • so much for fact checkers!



    The Co-Founder Of The Fact-Checking Site Snopes Was Writing Plagiarized Articles Under A Fake Name


    The Co-Founder Of Snopes Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarized Articles For The Fact-Checking Site


    David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site's tens of millions of readers: A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times.


    After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material. The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie.


    Snopes VP of Editorial and Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni suspended Mikkelson from editorial duties pending “a comprehensive internal investigation.” He remains an officer and a 50% shareholder of the company.


    "Let us be clear: Plagiarism undermines our mission and values, full stop," Marchionni added. "It has no place in any context within this organization."


    Snopes told BuzzFeed News it plans to retract all of the offending stories and disable advertising on them. It will also append an editor's note of explanation to each.


    Story continues

  • Edit : from 2nd link https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general

    Interesting that 40-60% of 60-and-over are triple vaxed.
    Curious that the rates for partially-vaxed are greater then for fully-vaxed in several age-ranges,


    Nope .. that chart "Active patients - age and immunization" lets you select rate or absolute numbers. The second pull-down lets you select active/serious - the latter is as expected.


    Thank you Alan for bringing this dashboard to our attention - it has a lot of useful info in it. As you and RB have noted it needs a bit of decoding for the per 100K figures to work out what they mean - are they per 100K of selected group, or per 100K of population. But selecting absolute figures allows this to be decoded.


    So we I guess can all see that for this cohort vaccination provides the expected very good but not perfect protection.


    What I wanted to understand is why R0 in Israel is 1.4 when R0 in UK is 1.0. Israel has more complete vaccination of its population in terms of %age of older age ranged vaccinated.


    Israel has been bugging me because its stats don't seem quite in line with otehr countries - though comparing cross-country is really difficult.


    For example I was thinking Israel might suffer from reverse-seasonal effect - where when it is very hot outside everyone has to meet inside with air con - so Summer becomes like Winter.


    But I have noticed a big difference - should have realised - that skews things:


    300px-Israelpop.svg.png


    You can see that Israel (median age 29) has very different population structure from UK (median age 49).


    That means that without vaccination Israel will do better - there are fewer old people to kill. So the overall effect of vaccination on death rates will be lower than for a more developed population like the UK or US, even though in absolute terms death rates will be good.


    But there is another consequence. Younger age bands everywhere have lower vaccination rates. In Israel there are a lot of young people, so a large reservoir of unvaccinated driving that R0 number up.


    Even though we think of Israel as very well protected by vaccine - and it is for people at risk - it is not so well well protected at population level:

    5411K vaccinated (double or triple - since single does not help with delta)

    9053 population


    59% vaccinated, 41% unvaccinated (all ages)


    for England (I've been taking figures from there - other nations are a bit different):

    56,000K population

    33,500 double vaccinated

    60% vaccinated, 40% unvaccinated (all ages)


    So Israel quite well vaccinated, like the UK, but not great.


    Other demographics - I'd guess those big families - probably also multi-generational families - increase spread.


    I know people here may think I'm dismissive of these inter-country epidemiological comparisons because so many have been posted claiming ivermectin is good /vaccines are bad/ etc that I have had little time for,


    It is not that - it is that there is so much work in just sorting out the basic demographics. And then other things like housing structure, mobility all affect R0.


    In addition most of those places W liked to post (e.g. UP) are very underdeveloped and the official statistics are either missing or known to be very highly innacurate. That makes saying anything about those countries difficult.


    One thing I experience on this site is how easy it is to be swayed by anti-vax - or anti-vax-lite propaganda. I believe much of this stuff that is posted, think "hmmm - that sounds odd - i wonder why" and it takes me so much time to begin to make sense of things.


    It is true that the CDC etc statements are pretty full of spin. So why do I see the anti-vax-lite spin as so much worse?


    • A lot of the govt statements are just out of date. thus they use alpha variant stats to describe the performance of the vaccines - when now in the US delta is dominant. This is sort-of understandable if you want to say definite true things, because the data on delta variant vaccine efficacy is scattered oand not consistent. You gte it in teh deatiled popwerpoints, but not in the for general populationb must be simple powerpoints
    • Statements like 99.99% of vaccinated have not got seriously ill are spin. it is a silly way to look at it
    • Statements like - it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated are true morally - in the sense that for given infection rate hospitalisations and deaths are 10X lower in vaccinated than unvaccinated. However, once enough of the at risk population have been vaccinated, those turning up at hospitals will be mostly vaccinated.
    • no-one here (or no-one regularly posting) seems to give governments credit for the difficulty in communicating this stuff. If you spend 15 minutes itemising precisely the vaccine risks
    1. It will be too many numbers for most people to process - you can guarantee there will be sound-bites picked up people will remember - but don't know what they will be.
    2. The vaccine risks are very small - but people don't process very small risks as that - they see them as risk, and the more you talk about them, the more they affect people
    3. The thing that matters is the ratio of COVID risk to vaccine risk. But then a whole load of people will think they can manage not getting COVID, and pay attention only to vaccine risk


    So public messaging that is fair, and leaves most people with a correct idea of risks, will maybe not be scientifically complete or accurate. I'm glad I don't have to do this stuff - I'd not like it and it is such a big responsibility. Any tiny bit of lack of clarity and (rightly) the press jumps on you.

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