“If you go two years without getting that infection, without getting that protection from infection and then all of a sudden, boom, everybody from zero to three years gets RSV, you see the impact on health care.”
As we can see, the biggest spike is in 0 to 6 months, and in comparison to 2018-2019, it is much greater. Roughly, per 100k, 130 versus 70, and it is still spiking.
Second biggest spike is in 6 to 12 months, at almost 80, versus 30 at
its highest.
In the 1 to 2 year olds, almost 40 this year vs. almost 20.
(The Y-axis is higher this year because of more cases).
If what Walensky is saying was true, we'd expect to see the 2 to 4 year olds screaming higher.
It's not.
But the big hitter was the zero to 6 months. What happened there?
Walensky's immunity silliness simply is irrelevant.
This is Jose Romero, director of the NCIRD at the @CDCgov.
Jose is not thinking clearly. Has he been infected?
Why do I say he's not thinking clearly?
At the most recent CDC briefing, Jose was asked, why RSV is spreading so quickly and early.
"So we’re seeing more RSV because in the last past two years, we’ve not seen infections in children as we have previously. And so these children, if you will, need to become infected to move forward because it’s a disease very common in children. "
Literally, the XKCD comic.
But the same problem exists.
The biggest spike in hospitalizations is in the babies. 0-6 months and 6 months to 2 years. And the 0-6 months was the BIGGEST spike.
"Pre-F antibody titers were significantly lower in mothers whose infants were hospitalized with RSV bronchiolitis compared with those mothers whose infants were not hospitalized..."
So, maternal antibodies are important. Could the maternal antibodies have not been passed on because the mother did not get infected?
Fortunately, 95% of people are exposed by the time they are two, so the mother would not have had to be exposed to pass on those antibodies.
Can you imagine?
"Now that you are pregnant, let's schedule your infections. First trimester, we'll do RSV and Ebola."
Silliness.
Let's take another look at that preprint that @fitterhappieraj found
Every infant inherits their microbiome from their mom, and mom's
microbiome diversity was reduced by Covid.
And we know those infants had a unique microbiota, per above, compared to Covidians (those infected).
Indeed, SARS-CoV-2 infections during pregnancy are associated with a compromised initial microbial seed of the infant.
No big deal, right?
Wrong.
"The inherited microbiome exerts marked effects on immune programming with long-term health consequences, including susceptibility to infections or chronic inflammatory diseases and reduced vaccine efficacy"
"Therefore, this “window of opportunity” at birth, either renders infants with a healthy immune system or alternatively establishes a divergent path leading to severe immune-mediated disease susceptibility (16-24). "
Well, that sounds like pediatricians are going to be busy.
To be crystal clear, this study is NOT saying that Covid is responsible for the increase in RSV.
But it is saying Covid causes negative changes at a very important moment in the baby's life, immunologically speaking.
And since we are talking about more severe RSV cases?
It seems to be directly related.
Or, at the very least, much more plausible than a concept invented last year. A concept that Fox & Friends has been pushing.
Was it bleach they last pushed? Or herd immunity?
In any event, both Walensky and the director of the CDC are also
pushing immunity debt like universities pushing student loan debt.
Someone needs #FireWalensky, and put Jose on notice.
In your testicles. Or your ovaries. Your brain and other organs.
But where do they come from? Are you eating, drinking, or breathing them in?
3 biggest fixes you can do? Get a water filter that handles PFAs - it will also do
also handle microplastics easily. Next, rinse off your vegetable and fruit with that filtered water.
When driving around in your car? Have a little HEPA running. @cleanairstars is a great resource. @ThisHouseFresh has a handy RV HEPA review article.
And of course, in your house, have a HEPA/ CR Box running. What is outside will soon be inside - takes about 4 hours if memory serves me correctly for typical infiltration.
In the next pandemic, these "RCT or STFU" worshippers plan on sacrificing you on the alter of RCTs.
This is Dr. Atle Fretheim 👇 talking about how they attempted to get masks randomized from his government.
And thankfully, shot down.
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But they have figure out "this one weird trick!"
They are working on getting pre-approval from the WHO for what is called their "Master Protocols 👇," to then help smooth the way with their local government.
This is not an idle thing. Atle specifically used air filtration 👇@kprather88 @jljcolorado, as his example of a desired subject to give half of the class clean air in the beginning of a pandemic.