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@hope123 Additionally, I partially identify with the "Maria" case study (on a disability pension, no partner or kids), although I am much younger and have been ill since I was a teenager (and I have a different pattern of symptoms). I can tell you that the proposed interventions for Maria, are...

The problem is that depression (or anxiety) are symptoms, not causes. The underlying causes are the lack of satisfaction of human needs, but few in the field (researchers or clinicians) bother to actually map the relationships between human need and satisfiers or lack thereof. I think there...

This is from a month ago, but a prospective study of wet markets in Wuhan in 2019 found no evidence of bats or pangolins being sold. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34099828/

Actually, I was wrong, they have similar names, but TTP is apparently a different syndrome (despite having the same set of symptoms), and is associated with a different autoantibody (against ADAMTS13). There is a very rare genetic cause, but it only explains 1% of TTP cases, the rest are...

Yes, that is what I'm suggesting.

This might be a disaster. Heparin sulphate does indeed bind to the spike protein, which I have previously mentioned, but I have proposed a similar mechanism for the thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, due to B-cell cocapture of PF4-Heparan sulfate-spike protein complexes.

It's a real shame. Deaths yesterday were double what they were a week ago, but still a complete denial that there is any issue!

Here is a study in India that found that vaccinated people can transmit the virus to other people. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-637724/v1

I don't understand why they only reported the "network relationships", without the results of the individual measures.

Life here has been mostly normal, besides mandatory check-ins at retail premises. Many people in Australia are yearning for the time before (ASAP) and seem to mistakenly think that is the situation in the UK.

Thanks, I was curious about the selection of the last two IAG members.

If replicated and built upon, this could be a big deal, but this is not guaranteed. It is interesting that they claim the IgG sensitised nerves but did not cause systemic inflammation or cytokine differences. They also found no effect in the spinal cord, suggesting it is a peripheral phenomena...

This study is doing the rounds as an "explanation" of why the viral vector vaccines have increased risk of the Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia syndrome: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.29.450356v1.full.pdf They claim that the vaccine accidentally being injected into a vein...

That was the (currently most recent) Public Health England data. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.22.21257658v1 In prior research, efficacy against symptomatic infection has correlated reasonably well with transmission rates, hence I am willing to bet that the vaccines that have...

So what? All SARS-2 is highly infectious. I think naming these variants is often used to deflect blame from authorities...

There are worrying trends of a "third wave" (or is that fourth) in the UK, with cases per day per million almost ten times higher in the UK compared to the USA on Tuesday. The US death rate is still three times higher (per million), but cases have more than doubled so those rates may well be...

No matter how many times they say this, it is simply not true. It is so frustrating that they keep insisting on this nonsense.

Which conveniently eliminates the possibility to collect long term followup comparisons.

The biggest problem with studies like this is the assumption that patterns of glycolysis or mitochondrial respiration in PBMCs is somehow relevant, despite the fact that the microenvironment for PBMCs is quite different to other tissue types.

Yes, the UK trial of household transmission of healthcare workers showed that although the risk was reduced, some healthcare workers who were vaccinated still contracted the disease and likely infected household members. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2107717