VSS Scientific Updates During Pandemic Times #38
1. Lancet Report Claiming COVID Could Have Come from U.S. Lab Met With Uproar
“A top medical journal at the heart of several pandemic-related controversies published a major COVID-19 Commission report Wednesday that concluded the deadly pathogen might possibly have leaked from a United States laboratory.”
https://news.yahoo.com/lancet-report-claiming-covid-could-132931783.html
2. COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for Young Adults: A Risk-Benefit Assessment
“Using CDC and sponsor-reported adverse event data, we find that booster mandates may cause a net expected harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented in previously uninfected young adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily activities. Given the high prevalence of post-infection immunity, this risk-benefit profile is even less favourable.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4206070
3. Immune Boosting by Omicron Depends on Previous SARS-CoV-2 Exposure
“This “hybrid immune damping” indicates substantial subversion of immune recognition and differential modulation through immune imprinting and may be the reason why the B.1.1.529 (Omicron) wave has been characterized by breakthrough infection and frequent reinfection with relatively preserved protection against severe disease in triple-vaccinated individuals.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1841
4. Johns Hopkins Slows Frequency of Covid-19 Data Publication
“We have seen a dramatic shift in the way that state and local governments not only collect this data but share it publicly,” said Beth Blauer, associate vice provost for public-sector innovation at Johns Hopkins and data lead for the school’s Coronavirus Resource Center. “That deeply constrains the way that we can actually report.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/johns-hopkins-slows-frequency-of-covid-19-data-publication-11663156803
5. FDA Warns Monkeypox Could Mutate if Antiviral Drug is Overused
“The regulator says lab and animal studies, and evidence from a human case of this family of viruses, suggest monkeypox has "several genetic pathways" to evolve resistance to tecovirimat. Many "require only a single amino acid change," the FDA said.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-monkeypox-could-mutate-if-antiviral-drug-tpoxx-is-overused/
6. Nearly 3 Million Birds Culled as UK Grapples with ‘Unprecedented’ Wave of Bird Flu
“While the devastating impact of the disease has been well documented among wild birds – especially in seabird populations around Scotland, Wales and northern England – the figures seen by The Independent reveal the enormous toll the outbreak is taking on livestock.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/bird-flu-uk-poultry-cull-defra-b2167370.html
Most of the bird flu "cases" are from pcr test determination because of mandatory "testing" of flocks. The same agenda is at work as the CDC pcr tests which had a 90%+ false positive rate! The bird raisers know instantly if there is bird flu in their flocks - they don't need any stinking pcr tests - they just have to look at their flocks! The symptoms are damn obvious to the raiser! Too many times after the asymptomatic +pcr test, flocks are presumptively slaughtered, necropsy and proper serology shows no bird flu evidence, and the owners can't say so!
Dr. Vanden Bossche,
Please comment on the latest Substack posting of Dr. Eric Topol at https://erictopol.substack.com/p/to-boost-or-not-to-boost
Thanks so much for your great, great work. I'm not qualified to judge the science, for the most part, but your humanity is stellar to me.