56-year-old former Kickboxing champion and charity campaigner Barrington Peterson has died suddenly of a massive heart attack—over a year a bout of Covid that put him in hospital—Covid massively increase your risk of a heart attack:
An incredibly sad case here: Barrington spent much of his life a charity worker and homelessness campaigner and considered a local legend in Birmingham:
After helping to deliver food parcels last year he said he was 'absolutely smashed by Covid:
Barrington developed Covid sepsis and was taken to the hospital:
'It’s the truth I had covid and sepsis. I’m fit and active and it absolutely smashed me."
A year after this bout of Covid that left the fit and active man hospitalised, he returned to kickboxing:
Sadly Barrington's—known endearingly as 'Baz'—story is not alone: you will remember that cricket Legend Shane Warne also died of a heart attack recently months after a bout of Covid:
In order to warn people of the true risks of Covid it's more important now than ever that the public is made aware of the link between infection—including mild—and the massive increase in risk of heart attacks, strokes etc afterwards.
Instead, despite the fact this is KNOWN complication of infection months/years later—the link is somehow never brought up in cases like this.
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1/ CDC China Stark Warning On Deltacron: 'The “Wolf” Is Indeed Coming' Recombination variant is a 'Grey Rhino' event (highly predictable, slowly emerging, obvious threat that is ignored or minimized by decision-makers) Past variants may not have been 'worst-case until now...
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China's CDC with their wealth of knowledge on Coronaviruses has decided to comment and release what appears to be a stark warning about Deltacron.
'No recombination events involving large genomic fragments (like “Deltacron”) have been found in SARS-CoV-2 before.'
3/ The deeply respected and knowledgeable CHINESE scientists write about the Deltacron variant, that as professor Leon Kostrikis who first identified the variant warned, it has the spike of Omicron (infectivity) mixed with Delta (implying higher severity of disease)
Chris Whitty once again displaying that he doesn't understand this virus and never will—let's unpick this mess:
Whitty is a nasty piece of work: let's get that straight first and foremost—before people defend him, he was wrong about pandemics before we had a pandemic and he continues to be wrong now:
Problem 1: assumption that is seasonal: completely wrong.
Problem 2: assuming that there is 'no end point'—which is his way of saying of 'learn to live with it and shut up'
But, there can at any point, be an end point to the pandemic is we chose to take the right actions.
1/ OMICRON UK, COVID: 40-year-old triple vaxxed mother dies of Covid after coughing up blood and having a heart attack, leaving behind 4 children—one of which has severe special needs —HEARTBREAKING
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Danielle Dave, age just 40 from Queen's Park in North West London recently died after being infected with Covid, during her illness she started to cough up blood and had a fatal heart attack on week 2 of it.
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Heart attacks are a well-established part of Covid infection, sometimes happening months/year (s) after even a mild case: in Omicron they seem to be happening frequently during the acute phase as well.
Well what are we supposed to do then? spend the rest of our lives getting infected repeatedly, being subject to chronic illness, heart attacks, strokes, ever shortening life spans, mass disruption to everything, and eternally high levels of grief and loss? for what exactly?
All because big business doesn't want to take the virus seriously—which involves stopping the machine for a few weeks every now and then—something which is actually better for the economy and health over all?
Yeah, almost everything has a risk to it: but why should there always be a high risk of catching an easily preventable serious disease just from doing 'normal' things? You could use her arguments to argue against speeding limits, carbon limits, safe sex, airplane safety
Israel, BA2, Covid: ICU admissions now starting to tick up after months of steady decline since the brutal Omicron wave which had the highest ever deaths, admissions and ICU admissions of ANY WAVE EVER.
Hospital admissions also starting to uptick again after months of decline:
Cases also upticking in line with the rise in hospitalisations: though very low levels of cases so the rise is in ICU and admissions is somewhat unexpected at this point.
Test positivity is hovering around 14% currently—which implies that they are missing A LOT of cases though..
It seems that the whole country is starting to go into a form of mini lockdown: schools closing, GPs closing, hospitals closing, no doubt many other things too: and we've only just started this wave–bear that in mind. THIS IS JUST THE START.