Coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) outbreak discussion

[moXJO]

I like your "may have"?

Hey, they might be our new overlords soon.

 

[qldfrog]

Hey, they might be our new overlords soon.

I should take care indeed, telling truth is not good in the west, but not getting better either in the old kingdom ?

 

[DB008]

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One of the guys at work came in with the sniffles.

Did a test, results below

Quick, send out the contact traces....

He's over 50
No health issues
It's like he has the cold/flu
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[IFocus]

Listened to Professor Jeremy Nicholson on ABC radio, he was talking of the current research showing a significance rise in the risk of cardio vascular disease COVID among other risks caused by the immune response well worth a listen 15mins.

Can Omicron give you long COVID? - ABC Perth

What you should know about Omicron and long covid.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sptrawler]

Now the covid alert systems aren't being used does anyone know how to remove them from an android device? I have opened app manager but the uninstall icon isn't highlighted, so it wont uninstall.

 

[Knobby22]

Now the covid alert systems aren't being used does anyone know how to remove them from an android device? I have opened app manager but the uninstall icon isn't highlighted, so it wont uninstall.

Hold down on it and uninstall will pop up - at least in Android, if you have an iphone you are on your own )

 

[sptrawler]

Hold down on it and uninstall will pop up - at least in Android, if you have an iphone you are on your own )

Thanks Knobby, you're a champion mate.?

 

[DB008]

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[macca]

UK Govt says pregnant ladies or those breastfeeding should NOT get vaccinated, better late than never I suppose.

Too bad about the ladies who aborted after getting vaxed

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<<Toxicity conclusions​

The absence of reproductive toxicity data is a reflection of the speed of development to first identify and select COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 for clinical testing and its rapid development to meet the ongoing urgent health need. In principle, a decision on licensing a vaccine could be taken in these circumstances without data from reproductive toxicity studies animals, but there are studies ongoing and these will be provided when available. In the context of supply under Regulation 174, it is considered that sufficient reassurance of safe use of the vaccine in pregnant women cannot be provided at the present time: however, use in women of childbearing potential could be supported provided healthcare professionals are advised to rule out known or suspected pregnancy prior to vaccination. Women who are breastfeeding should also not be vaccinated. These judgements reflect the absence of data at the present time and do not reflect a specific finding of concern. Adequate advice with regard to women of childbearing potential, pregnant women and breastfeeding women has been provided in both the Information for UK Healthcare Professionals and the Information for UK recipients.>>

Summary of the Public Assessment Report for COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech

www.gov.uk

 

[DB008]

Hmm, thats interesting....

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[wayneL]

Omicron probably manufactured in lab

 

[DB008]

Omicron probably manufactured in lab

Covid was manufactured in a lab. 100%

The question is, did it come out of a US lab or a Chinese lab, or a JV between both parties?

(Time stamped @1:57)​

Recap on MSN lying

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[DB008]

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JEFFREY SACHS PRESENTS EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE LAB ORIGIN OF COVID-19​

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of Covid​

The journal article offers a scientific road map for how this unusual sequence of amino acids could have made its way into the furin cleavage site, or FCS, of the virus. Sachs and Harrison acknowledge that the sequence could have arisen naturally. But they also lay out another possibility: that scientists might have purposefully inserted this particular string of amino acids into a bat coronavirus in the course of their work. They focus particularly on scientists who submitted an unfunded grant proposal to a division of the Defense Department called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, laying out plans to insert a furin cleavage site into a bat coronavirus.​

“We do not know whether the insertion of the FCS was the result of natural evolution — perhaps via a recombination event in an intermediate mammal or a human — or was the result of a deliberate introduction of the FCS into a SARS-like virus as part of a laboratory experiment,” Sachs and Harrison write. “We do know that the insertion of such FCS sequences into SARS-like viruses was a specific goal of work proposed by the EHA-WIV-UNC partnership within a 2018 grant proposal (“DEFUSE”) that was submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA).”​

https://theintercept.com/2022/05/19/covid-lab-leak-evidence-jeffrey-sachs/

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[DB008]

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[DB008]

Remember this​

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[DB008]

Major Covid report suggests virus could have leaked from a US lab​

The Lancet’s paper said it is ‘feasible’ that Sars-Cov-2 emerged from a natural spillover or a lab incident, but elements provoke backlash​

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/s/sa-se/sarah-newey/
The Lancet is facing a backlash after a major Covid-19 Commission report suggested the disease may have leaked from a laboratory in the United States.

Published on Wednesday, the paper said it remains “feasible” that Sars-Cov-2 emerged from either a natural spillover or a laboratory incident, and called for the introduction of more safeguards to reduce the risk of either eventuality.

But the report, the result of two years of work, also suggested American researchers could be culpable. As well as mentioning facilities in Wuhan, it noted that “independent researchers have not yet investigated” US labs, and said the National Institutes of Health has “resisted disclosing details” of its work.

The report comes as controversy swirls the commission chair, the economist Prof Jeffrey Sachs.​

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-...vid-origins-report-suggests-virus-could-have/​

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[DB008]

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[moXJO]

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Amazed they admitted it. It was obvious after a month that it didn't stop the spread.

 

[mullokintyre]

According to this paper from BioxRV , US labs are still experimenting with creation of new starins of COVID.
This particular one had an 80% mortality rate in mice.

The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognized to date1–7. The Omicron spike (S) protein, with an unusually large number of mutations, is considered the major driver of these phenotypes3,8. We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80%. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of S.

Why is the Fauci led NIH/NIAID still funding this research, despite their denials.

This work was supported by Boston University startup funds (to MS and FD), National Institutes of Health, NIAID grants R01 AI159945 (to SB and MS) and R37 AI087846 (to MUG), NIH SIG grants S10-OD026983 and SS10-OD030269 (to NAC), Peter Paul Career Development Award (to FD), and BMBF SenseCoV2 01KI20172A (AE) and DFG Fokus COVID-19, EN 423/7-1 (AE).

Why are LABS still getting away with this research? We were told there would be no more Chimeric cutting and pasting research?

To test the role of the S protein in Omicron phenotype, we generated a chimeric recombinant virus containing the S gene of Omicron (USA-lh01/2021) in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate (GISAID EPI_ISL_2732373)30 (Fig. 1c). To produce this chimeric Omi-S virus, we employed a modified form of cyclic polymerase extension reaction (CPER) (Extended Data Fig. 1) that yielded highly concentrated virus stocks, containing 0.5-5 × 106 plaque-forming units (PFU) per ml, from transfected cells within two days of transfection (Fig. 1d,e), obviating the need for additional viral amplification31,32.

Mick