Did CDC Officials Mislead The Public About COVID Vaccine Efficacy? Rep. Massie Says “Yes”


Via American Greatness, When Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) contacted officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December of 2020, he wanted to know if taking the newly released Covid vaccine would benefit him, since he’d already contracted the illness. After reading the scientific studies himself, and seeing no benefit, Massie contacted […]

Role of MicroRNA-21 in Regulating Intracellular Pathways Associated With Phagocytosis in Human Macrophages: An In Vitro Study


Natsuki Anada • Yoshinobu Nakayama • Jun Takeshita • Kyoko Kageyama • Hiroatsu Sakamoto • Takahiko Kamibayashi • Yasufumi Nakajima 2024, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.63736  Abstract Introduction The efficient clearance of bacteria by macrophages is crucial for the timely resolution of inflammation. In this study, we investigated the role of microRNA-21 (miR-21)-induced phagocytosis and its intracellular signaling pathways in human macrophages in vitro. Methods Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were […]

Spatial transcriptomics unveils the in situ cellular and molecular hallmarks of the lung in fatal COVID-19


Carlos Garcia-Prieto, Eva Musulen, Veronica Davalos,  et. al.doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.03.601404 00010010 Abstract Severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induces heterogeneous and progressive diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) highly disrupting lung tissue architecture and homeostasis, hampering disease management and leading to fatal outcomes. Characterizing DAD pathophysiology across disease progression is of ultimate importance to better understand the molecular and cellular features driving different DAD patterns and […]

‘Visionary’ study finds inflammation, evidence of Covid virus years after infection


By Isabella Cueto, 2024 Stat Reporting Remember when we thought Covid was a two-week illness? So does Michael Peluso, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.  He recalls the rush to study acute Covid infection, and the crush of resulting papers. But Peluso, an HIV researcher, knew what his team excelled at: following […]

Rapid Dissemination of Protocols for Managing Neurology Inpatients with COVID-19


Authors: Anna Cervantes-Arslanian MD,K. H. Vincent Lau MD,Pria Anand MD, et. al. Annals of Neurology Volume 88, Issue 2 p. 211-214 Introduction In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the scientific community has made great efforts to accelerate its process for knowledge synthesis and dissemination, including expedited journal peer review,1 open source platforms for quick […]

Intramyocardial Inflammation after COVID-19 Vaccination: An Endomyocardial Biopsy-Proven Case Series


Authors: Christian Baumeier 1, Ganna Aleshcheva 1, Dominik Harms 1, et. al. Int J Mol Sci 2022 Jun 22;23(13):6940. doi: 10.3390/ijms23136940. Abstract Myocarditis in response to COVID-19 vaccination has been reported since early 2021. In particular, young male individuals have been identified to exhibit an increased risk of myocardial inflammation following the administration of mRNA-based vaccines. Even though the first epidemiological analyses […]

Mini-Strokes, Gut Problems: Scientists See Links to an Old Bout of Covid


Feeling ill? The cause might be years old By Sumathi Reddy July 2, 2024 5:30 am WSJ Scientists suspect that one culprit behind your new illness might be the infection you got a couple of years ago.  The link between new health problems and your past health history appears to be particularly prevalent with Covid. A new […]

Pathological sequelae of long-haul COVID


Saurabh Mehandru & Miriam Merad, Nature Immunology volume 23, pages194–202 ( Abstract The world continues to contend with successive waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), fueled by the emergence of viral variants. At the same time, persistent, prolonged and often debilitating sequelae are increasingly recognized in convalescent individuals, named ‘post-COVID-19 syndrome’ or ‘long-haul COVID’. Clinical symptomatology includes fatigue, malaise, dyspnea, defects […]

Human SARS-CoV-2 challenge uncovers local and systemic response dynamics


Rik G. H. Lindeboom, Kaylee B. Worlock, Lisa M. Dratva, et. al.Nature (2024) Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global health threat, yet our understanding of the dynamics of early cellular responses to this disease remains limited1. Here in our SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study, we used single-cell multi-omics profiling of nasopharyngeal swabs and blood to temporally resolve abortive, […]

China’s CDC Reports New COVID-19 Cases Hit Nearly 20 Percent


Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times, The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that new COVID-19 infections in the country of origin have increased to nearly 20 percent in the past few weeks, as two new Omicron subvariants spread across the country. But while increases to China’s official COVID-19 test […]