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Small study. 55 infants.
Estimating susceptible pool of infants to RSV reinfections.
43% reinfected.
Memory T cells found in only 38% of infants, and there was no difference in how many had this memory between those reinfected and not reinfected.
Estimating susceptible pool of infants to RSV reinfections.
43% reinfected.
Memory T cells found in only 38% of infants, and there was no difference in how many had this memory between those reinfected and not reinfected.
My conclusion. Past waves not a good predictor of future wave size or severity. Significant numbers of susceptible humans remain in the population. Any estimates of "immunity gap" must take into account a lack of durable immunity to RSV in infants.
Past experience note that younger infants have physiological reasons to suffer more severe disease. (small airway, soft chest walls). This must also be weighed when considering policy that can affect timing of exposure of infants to RSV.
Theoretically… COVID-19 could be a goldmine. Endless consults. Heaps more work. Stacks of equipment and medicines to sell. Papers to write.
You have to wonder why I spend my days pleading with everyone to reduce its transmission.
#CutDownTransmission
You have to wonder why I spend my days pleading with everyone to reduce its transmission.
#CutDownTransmission
I don’t sell HEPA/UVC/CO2 monitors or masks. I’d be just as happy with natural ventilation if you can do it as it is cheap and environmentally friendly.
I don’t have any plans to do so either… if I did, I would let you know…
I don’t have any plans to do so either… if I did, I would let you know…
I don’t get paid for tweeting (wow would I be rich!). I have nowhere and nothing for you all to subscribe to.
I only made one video on YouTube and I’m going to take it down because it’s getting out of date…
I only made one video on YouTube and I’m going to take it down because it’s getting out of date…
Babies shouldn’t have to fight past this before they are even born.
Placenta.
Brown =vascular= good.
White stuff =useless.
#CutDownTransmission
the-scientist.com/news-opinion/d…
Placenta.
Brown =vascular= good.
White stuff =useless.
#CutDownTransmission
the-scientist.com/news-opinion/d…
I’m going to take an educated guess and say that vaccination likely would prevent huge damage like this, but I think we are all familiar with the idea that it may vary depending on last dose and variant.
We can’t be living with this virus on the loose. It’s irresponsible!
We can’t be living with this virus on the loose. It’s irresponsible!
@healthgovau
SARS-CoV-2 does not have the required safety profile to administer it as a population level intervention to attempt to achieve “hybrid immunity”.
SARS-CoV-2 does not have the required safety profile to administer it as a population level intervention to attempt to achieve “hybrid immunity”.
SARS-CoV-2 has serious adverse effects including neuro-inflammation and heart failure in the target population.
It is too transmissible. It circulates at high prevalence, persistently, and it readily transmits into vulnerable groups and we remain unable to prevent this.
It is too transmissible. It circulates at high prevalence, persistently, and it readily transmits into vulnerable groups and we remain unable to prevent this.
It does not provide the intended outcome either. There is no evidence thus far of meaningfully durable immunity.
You can’t build the immunity wall. It is a folly.
You can’t build the immunity wall. It is a folly.
I’m very worried about the finding that there is ongoing brain inflammation even 10 months post COVID-19.
I never put a lot of thought into this before even though others have said it, but we may get to a point where so many are cognitively impaired, we can’t do much…about anything.
It seems unbelievable that this could happen, and yet, just like in the movies, I’m watching the asteroid approach…
🧵 I’m writing to my local state and federal MPs because I’m worried about the level of covid cases in the community. I’ve made some templates, to make it easy for you to do the same.
If enough of us speak up, we will be heard. Copy and paste these into an email, or make a PDF to email (click file: make a copy).
Here’s one to expand on, using your own circumstances and concerns. bit.ly/mpletterform
See… I do wonder if it would be a good idea to have some kind of border health screening program in this brave new living with SARS world… maybe even some quarantine facilities with proper airborne precautions… for flights from outbreak zones…
Bad idea?
Bad idea?
TL;DR
It is thought that a latent Ebola infection may have reactivated and sparked an outbreak.
It is thought that a latent Ebola infection may have reactivated and sparked an outbreak.
COVID-19 has broken down healthcare systems worldwide.
HCW have died and been sickened in their thousands.
Vital prevention work has slowed massively.
All diseases are on the rise.
Expect TB, HIV…everything to arrive near you.
Welcome to “living with the virus”™️
HCW have died and been sickened in their thousands.
Vital prevention work has slowed massively.
All diseases are on the rise.
Expect TB, HIV…everything to arrive near you.
Welcome to “living with the virus”™️
You think you can just spread infectious disease everywhere and ignore the consequences.
The consequences will find you.
We should have controlled COVID-19 ages ago in well resourced countries, and then we should have been doing work to help others.
The consequences will find you.
We should have controlled COVID-19 ages ago in well resourced countries, and then we should have been doing work to help others.
Have a look at the huge number of infectious diseases emerging and re-emerging now.
Partly due to deforestation, but massively due to immunisations not done, contact tracing broken down, meds not distributed… and no HCW to do this work.
Partly due to deforestation, but massively due to immunisations not done, contact tracing broken down, meds not distributed… and no HCW to do this work.
It’s not unusual to have a suppressed immune system after a viral infection. The question is how well it recovers.
The problem with COVID-19 is that people are getting unusual infections weeks and months after infection, and the period between infections can be short.
The problem with COVID-19 is that people are getting unusual infections weeks and months after infection, and the period between infections can be short.
That makes it harder to “recover” between acute bouts, and there is also a negative longer term trajectory due to a superantigen stimulating the immune system too much.
Which is why I keep saying #CutDownTransmission
Which is why I keep saying #CutDownTransmission
Finally, there is experimental evidence that multiple white cell lines can be infected.
This needs further investigation and follow up.
This needs further investigation and follow up.
Single case report.
“This case appears to confirm the concerns that the CD4+ T-cell depletion associated with COVID-19 may promote the development of active tuberculosis from latent infection much like HIV does.”
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
“This case appears to confirm the concerns that the CD4+ T-cell depletion associated with COVID-19 may promote the development of active tuberculosis from latent infection much like HIV does.”
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
So far
🔴EBV reactivation
🔴Possible TB reactivation
🔴Possible reduced ability to manage adenovirus
🔴Possible increased susceptibility to mould infections
You can’t see a pattern?
🔴EBV reactivation
🔴Possible TB reactivation
🔴Possible reduced ability to manage adenovirus
🔴Possible increased susceptibility to mould infections
You can’t see a pattern?
Acquired immune deficiency.
That’s what we call it.
When you start off with a standard immune system, and then you end up in a situation where you can’t fight off pathogens, or even ubiquitous environmental bugs that we basically can’t avoid.
That’s what we call it.
When you start off with a standard immune system, and then you end up in a situation where you can’t fight off pathogens, or even ubiquitous environmental bugs that we basically can’t avoid.
So you are thinking you and your kids have to get COVID-19 at some point, so what’s the point of wearing a mask?
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Have you thought this plan all the way through to the end? Because it’s not just one infection. It’s repeated infections for the rest of your lives, and it can be as frequent as just a few weeks to a few months apart all year round.
Each infection chips away at your organs and immune system, risks clots and heart attacks. The vaccines help with severe disease and death… but what about the rest of it.
Where does your plan take you?
#WearAMaskSaveALife
#CutDownTransmission
Protect yourselves.
Where does your plan take you?
#WearAMaskSaveALife
#CutDownTransmission
Protect yourselves.
Yes, I am.
Quarantine is not the same as lockdown.
To reduce the risk of lockdown, install airborne mitigations in the community. Legislate for safer air and deploy respirators to essential workers.
Quarantine is not the same as lockdown.
To reduce the risk of lockdown, install airborne mitigations in the community. Legislate for safer air and deploy respirators to essential workers.
Standard troll tactic to reduce every single life preserving measure to lockdown.
Don’t let them fool you.
There is no choice but to #CutDownTransmission and one effective way to do that is that is to have proper quarantine and isolation periods based on science.
Don’t let them fool you.
There is no choice but to #CutDownTransmission and one effective way to do that is that is to have proper quarantine and isolation periods based on science.
The alternative is *dire*.
Ongoing circulation of COVID-19 will cause a massive wave of chronic disease including heart failure, strokes, dementia, Parkinson’s like movement disorders, autonomic system messed up, immune systems shattered.
No choice.
#CutDownTransmission
Ongoing circulation of COVID-19 will cause a massive wave of chronic disease including heart failure, strokes, dementia, Parkinson’s like movement disorders, autonomic system messed up, immune systems shattered.
No choice.
#CutDownTransmission
The audience has changed in Australia, and I am sensitive to that. A lot of people will now be infected, or know someone they love that is infected.
Now it’s about how to survive beyond that… and to do that we still need to #CutDownTransmission
Now it’s about how to survive beyond that… and to do that we still need to #CutDownTransmission
Just because you have had COVID-19 once, and you thought it was mild, it doesn’t mean the next one will be mild, or the one after that. Timing vaccines and waves is not easy, so we need to flatten those waves.
We also need to reduce the amount of organ and systems damage.
We also need to reduce the amount of organ and systems damage.
Vulnerable people in the community are relying on us to reduce the prevalence of disease. For them, it literally is a matter of life and death.
We can do this… we need to start small. Better ventilate our homes and workplaces. Wear the best mask/respirator we can.
We can do this… we need to start small. Better ventilate our homes and workplaces. Wear the best mask/respirator we can.
This…
The overwhelming stress in ED and ward level care means people suffer.
People suffer A LOT.
The overwhelming stress in ED and ward level care means people suffer.
People suffer A LOT.
In general, ED long waits lead to pressure areas from hard chairs and floors (these are anything from red areas on the skin to actual holes deep to the bone), long wait to get anything like bed pans, pain killers, phone… and the worst one… no one to notice deterioration.
This is the omicron story. Not ventilators and dying from COVID-19 as much as before.
Suffering. Endless painful suffering.
Suffering. Endless painful suffering.
@Anonymo56543274 Ask and ye shall receive.
Two cases. One severe, one mild.
COVID-19 chronic infection of the penis associated with erectile dysfunction, occurring many months after infection.
It is known to damage the blood vessels that are needed for erection. webmd.com/lung/news/2021…
Two cases. One severe, one mild.
COVID-19 chronic infection of the penis associated with erectile dysfunction, occurring many months after infection.
It is known to damage the blood vessels that are needed for erection. webmd.com/lung/news/2021…
@Anonymo56543274 Yes, you read that right. The virus was still in the tissue from the penis.
SARS2 moved in, and stayed there. Then the penis stopped working.
SARS2 moved in, and stayed there. Then the penis stopped working.
@Anonymo56543274 How many men are suffering ED post COVID-19?
Vaccinated, I don’t know. But the fact that it has been recorded post mild infection… possible.
If unvaccinated… loads. webmd.com/lung/news/2021…
Vaccinated, I don’t know. But the fact that it has been recorded post mild infection… possible.
If unvaccinated… loads. webmd.com/lung/news/2021…
So what’s happening. Is humanity winning? Are we living with the virus?
No. SARS-CoV-2 is getting faster and faster. We have partially adapted to it with vaccines, but it is way ahead, and we are not coping. We are getting tired.
#omicron
No. SARS-CoV-2 is getting faster and faster. We have partially adapted to it with vaccines, but it is way ahead, and we are not coping. We are getting tired.
#omicron
As we get tired, we are dropping more and more measures to control COVID-19, and it is setting up residence in our bodies, making us chronically unwell, and killing many.
It has free reign to mutate as much as it likes. We are tired, and easy prey now.
It has free reign to mutate as much as it likes. We are tired, and easy prey now.
We think, maybe, omicron might be milder… but we can’t really tell because it is so mixed up with the numbers vaccinated and previously infected… but it is putting more kids in hospital… killing kids too…
and we are still too tired to raise a defence to it.
and we are still too tired to raise a defence to it.
