This covid winter should be better than last Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/politics/fauci-covid-winter-surge.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/22/covid-bivalent-booster/?utm_campaign=wp_to_your_health&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_tyh Combination of infections and vaccinations, enough community protection that we’re not going to see a repeat of what we saw last…
58% of covid US deaths now in the vaccinated Kaiser Family Foundation vice president Cynthia Cox https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/effectiveness-research/protocols.html https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/monitoring.html https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/Rates-of-COVID-19-Cases-or-Deaths-by-Age-Group-and/d6p8-wqjm https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/vaccinated-people-now-make-up-majority-covid-deaths/ 58% of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted (people who had completed at least…
Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4 (12th November 2022) Johns Hopkins University of Michigan National Bureau of Economic Research Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Department of Veterans Health Affairs Department of Medicine, University of…
Rise of natural acquired immunity Get additional scientific background from John’s free text books, http://159.69.48.3/ (you will need to cut and paste this link into your browser) Risk of BA.5 Infection among Persons Exposed to Previous SARS-CoV-2 Variants https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2209479?query=TOC&cid=NEJM%20eToc,%20September%201,%202022%20DM1402792_NEJM_Non_Subscriber&bid=1141953912 https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMc2209479/suppl_file/nejmc2209479_appendix.pdf…
UK infections continue upwards https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data Reinfections now common https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-omicron-reinfection-symptoms-uk-cases-b2115027.html https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1841 Generally, infections tend to milder the second or third time round Danny Altmann, professor of immunology, Imperial College London Omicron is poorly immunogenic, which means that catching it offers little…
COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity, The unnaturalistic fallacy https://jme.bmj.com/content/48/6/371 COVID-19 vaccine requirements, debate, policies should have recognised proof of natural immunity, sufficient basis for exemption to vaccination requirements. Arguments Two implausible claims about natural immunity: Natural…
