Coronavirus

Dropbear said:
Is that a Falun Gong YT channel?
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You mean, is it a FG practitioner's media channel? I can't be sure, it is not one l recognise, but l like this channel because it has good insider information on China. I only found it recently on GanJing World.
 
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The Shooman said:
You mean, is it a FG practitioner's media channel? I can't be sure, it is not one l recognise, but l like this channel because it has good insider information on China. I only found it recently on GanJing World.
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Gotcha.

Out of curiosity, how did you get drawn into the FG orbit? Do you have Chinese ancestry or was it just something like getting a pamphlet in the subway or someone knocking st the door?
 
Dropbear said:
Gotcha.

Out of curiosity, how did you get drawn into the FG orbit? Do you have Chinese ancestry or was it just something like getting a pamphlet in the subway or someone knocking st the door?
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Met a friend from the U.S who was also into raw vegan diets. She joined my site and we became great friends. I switched to the FG practice and got immediate good results. My complexion is now rosy with a pinkish glow with very few wrinkles. I did raw foods for years, but l never looked good until l started FG.

Falun Gong won awards all over China in the early days, and was awarded the star qigong school in 1993. There was also a study from M Trey documenting the health benefits from people in the practice.
 
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Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and Topol explore our knowledge of long COVID and highlight key findings, including potential mechanisms, the overlap with other conditions and...
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  • Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections.
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  • At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID,
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  • …[occurs in] 10–12% of vaccinated cases
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Yes that’s right, 10% of vaccinated cases​

  • With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages.
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  • Six months after breakthrough infection, increased risks were observed for cardiovascular conditions, coagulation and haematological conditions, death, fatigue, neurological conditions and pulmonary conditions
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  • A higher prevalence of long Covid has been reported in certain ethnicities, including people with Hispanic or Latino heritage. Socio-economic risk factors include lower income and an inability to adequately rest in the early weeks after developing COVID-19
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  • Long COVID impacts children of all ages [with symptoms] 2 to 36 times more likely [with children who had COVID]
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  • Studies looking at immune dysregulation in individuals with long COVID who had mild acute COVID-19 have found T cell alterations, including exhausted T cells [and other immune reductions]
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  • A long-lasting reduction in vascular density, specifically affecting small capillaries, was found in patients with long COVID compared with controls, 18 months after infection.
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  • Cardiac MRI studies revealed cardiac impairment in 78% of 100 individuals who had a prior COVID-19 episode
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  • 70% of [long COVID] patients had damage to at least one organ and 29% had multi-organ damage… The organ damage experienced by patients with long COVID appears durable
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  • … fatigue was found in 32% and cognitive impairment was found in 22% of patients with COVID-19 at 12 weeks after infection. Cognitive impairments in long COVID are debilitating, at the same magnitude as intoxication at the
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  • drink driving limit or 10 years of cognitive ageing
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  • Viral persistence in the penile tissue has been documented, as has an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, likely resulting from endothelial dysfunction. In one study, impairments to sperm count, semen volume, motility, sperm morphology and sperm concentration were reported in individuals
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  • Several imaging studies that included non-hospitalized individuals with long COVID demonstrated pulmonary abnormalities including in air trapping and lung perfusion
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  • Few people with long COVID demonstrate full recovery, with one study finding that 85% of patients who had symptoms 2 months after the initial infection reported symptoms 1 year after symptom onset
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The Shooman said:
People will care in the near future because it will dramatically impact trade and world relations. Lots of medications and things are made in China, and now there is going to be major shortages of everything IMO
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We had that three/four years ago now and look where it got us. Even the Chinese don’t care at this point that’s why they’ve reopened.

The Shooman said:
AND....
World relations will now change. Why? The regime will fall because there won't be the leaders to run China anymore. What about the military?...gone too? AND the United Nations will be set free, no more BRI countries being bought off by China. It all ends now.
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None of this will happen.
 
Grand Potentate said:
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DeSantis pushes to permanently ban Covid-19 mandates in Florida | CNN Politics

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called on state lawmakers to make permanent existing penalties for companies that require all employees get the Covid-19 vaccination, his latest move to curtail pandemic mitigation efforts.
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Immunizations Required for Childcare and/or Family Daycare​

(Age-appropriate doses as indicated)
  • Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP)
  • Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)
  • Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)
  • Varicella (chickenpox)
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
  • Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV13)
  • Hepatitis B (Hep B)
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Public/Non-public Preschool Entry​

(Age-appropriate doses as indicated)
  • DTaP
  • IPV
  • MMR
  • Varicella
  • Hib
  • Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV13)
  • Hepatitis B (Hep B)
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Public/Non-public Schools Kindergarten Through 12th Grade​

(Children entering, attending, or transferring to Florida schools)
  • Four or five doses of DTaP
  • Four or five doses of IPV
  • Two doses of MMR
  • Three doses of Hep B
  • One Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap)
  • Two doses of Varicella (kindergarten effective with 2008–2009 school year, then an additional grade is added each year thereafter). Varicella vaccine is not required if there is a history of varicella disease documented by the health care provider.
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Additional Immunization Requirements for 7th Grade Entry​

Effective with 2009–2010 school year (then an additional grade is added each year thereafter), in addition to compliance with all other immunization requirements, children entering, attending, or transferring to the seventh grade in Florida schools must complete the following:
  • One Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap)
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School Immunization Requirements | Florida Department of Health

Information regarding Florida's immunization requirements for school-aged children.
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Chinese hospitals creak under the strain of a huge Covid outbreak

More than 60,000 people have died since “zero-Covid” rules were abruptly lifted in December, official figures show, and many more deaths are feared.
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"[T]he Cyberspace Administration of China said over the next month it would take action against 'fabricating patient experiences' and promoting fake virus treatments in order to 'prevent gloomy sentiments' during the Lunar New Year."

You weren't really ill. You just had the flu/RSV/cold/hypchondria.
 
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"I was appalled to see the prime minister making those comments": A U of T epidemiologist on the myth of immunity debt and the real reason everyone's getting sick

Colin Furness debunks the popular theory and explains how Covid-19 may be weakening our immune systems in the long run
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More for Rambo. basically getting coronavirus causes t-cell exhaustion which makes your immune system susceptible to RSV, flu etc. Getting coronavirus makes the immune system weaker, not bolstering it to be stronger according to this epidemiologist.
 
Fwiffo said:
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"I was appalled to see the prime minister making those comments": A U of T epidemiologist on the myth of immunity debt and the real reason everyone's getting sick

Colin Furness debunks the popular theory and explains how Covid-19 may be weakening our immune systems in the long run
torontolife.com torontolife.com

More for Rambo. basically getting coronavirus causes t-cell exhaustion which makes your immune system susceptible to RSV, flu etc. Getting coronavirus makes the immune system weaker, not bolstering it to be stronger according to this epidemiologist.
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Correct
 
Twelve people are responsible for 65% of disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media.
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And two are members of this forum! 🤣

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The science (and business) behind COVID-19 disinformation. And what to do about it.

Rumors around COVID-19 vaccines and death, like the Died Suddenly video we highlighted earlier this week, aren’t random. Disinformation campaigns are deliberate, often orchestrated, and highly effective in confusing people enough to change behaviors, like not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. And...
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WHO says Covid-19 remains a global health emergency, but pandemic is at a 'transition point' | CNN

Covid-19 remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Monday, but it acknowledged the pandemic is at a "transition point."
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“Achieving higher levels of population immunity globally, either through infection and/or vaccination, may limit the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on morbidity and mortality, but there is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future. As such, long-term public health action is critically needed,”

Herd immunity is a WHO health measure.
 
“Marijuana Consumption Is Associated with Lower COVID-19 Severity Among Hospitalized Patients”



By P. Yan, C. Shover, N. J. Jackson, R. Buhr, R. Nguyen, D. P. Tashkin, I. Barjaktarevic; UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Offsite Care, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, Department of Medicine Statistics Core, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.





RATIONALE: While marijuana is known to have immunomodulatory properties, clinical consequences of its chronic use on outcomes in COVID-19 have not been extensively evaluated. We aimed to assess whether current marijuana users hospitalized for COVID-19 had different outcomes compared to non-users.



METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 1831 patients admitted to UCLA between February 2020 and February 2021 with a diagnosis of COVID-19. We evaluated outcomes including NIH COVID-19 severity score, need for supplemental oxygen, ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, length of hospitalization, and in-hospital death for self-reported current marijuana users (use of edible or inhalant marijuana within one month of admission) and non-users (includes former marijuana users and never users). Propensity matching was used to account for differences in age, body mass index, sex, tobacco smoking history, and comorbidities known to be risk factors for COVID-19 mortality (diabetes, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, and liver disease) between marijuana users and non-users.



RESULTS: Of 1831 patients admitted with COVID-19, 69 patients reported active marijuana use (4% of the overall cohort). Active users were younger (44 years vs. 62 years, p<0.001), less often diabetic (23.2% vs. 37.2%, p<0.021), and more frequently active tobacco smokers (20.3% vs. 4.1%, p<0.001) compared to non-users. Notably, active users had lower levels of inflammatory markers upon admission than non-users — CRP (3.7mg/L vs. 7.6mg/L, p<0.001), ferritin (282ug/L vs. 622ug/L, p<0.001), D-dimer (468ng/mL vs. 1140ng/mL, p=0.017), and procalcitonin (0.10ng/mL vs. 0.15ng/mL, p=0.001). Based on univariate analysis, marijuana users had significantly better outcomes compared to non-users as reflected in lower NIH scores (5.1 vs. 6.0, p<0.001), shorter hospitalization (4 days vs. 6 days, p<0.001), lower ICU admission rates (12% vs. 31%, p<0.001), and less need for mechanical ventilation (6% vs. 17%, p=0.027). Using propensity matching, differences in overall survival were not statistically significant between marijuana users and non-users, nevertheless ICU admission was 12 percentage points lower (p=0.018) and intubation rates were 6 percentage points lower (p=0.017) in marijuana users after adjusting for covariates.



CONCLUSION: This retrospective cohort study suggests that active marijuana users hospitalized with COVID-19 had better clinical outcomes compared with non-users, including decreased need for ICU admission or mechanical ventilation. However, our results need to be interpreted with caution given the limitations of a retrospective analysis. Prospective and observational studies will better help elucidate the effects of marijuana use in COVID-19 patients.



Ref: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2022.205.1_MeetingAbstracts.A3174
 
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Past Covid infection as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds

The immunity generated from an infection was found to be “at least as high, if not higher” than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine.
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"Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.

Infection-acquired immunity cut the risk of hospitalization and death from a Covid reinfection by 88% for at least 10 months, the study found."

The immunity generated from an infection was found to be 'at least as high, if not higher' than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine, the authors wrote.

Notably, the immunity acquired from infection did appear to wane more slowly than the immunity from two doses of an mRNA vaccine."

Well if my parents read this, no more boosters forever for them.
 
Fwiffo said:
www.nbcnews.com

Past Covid infection as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds

The immunity generated from an infection was found to be “at least as high, if not higher” than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

"Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.

Infection-acquired immunity cut the risk of hospitalization and death from a Covid reinfection by 88% for at least 10 months, the study found."

The immunity generated from an infection was found to be 'at least as high, if not higher' than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine, the authors wrote.

Notably, the immunity acquired from infection did appear to wane more slowly than the immunity from two doses of an mRNA vaccine."

Well if my parents read this, no more boosters forever for them.
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Hey how did this conspiracy theory end up in The Lancet?
 
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