Counties With Highest Vaccination Rates See More COVID-19 Cases Than Least Vaccinated


Authors: Petr Svab April 4, 2022 Updated: April 5, 2022 THE EPOCH TIMES U.S. counties with the highest rates of vaccination against COVID-19 are currently experiencing more cases than those with the lowest vaccination rates, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 500 counties where 62 to 95 percent of the population has been […]

Bone Marrow Suppression Secondary to the COVID-19 Booster Vaccine: A Case Report


TAuthors: oral Shastri 1, Navkiran Randhawa 2, Ragia Aly 3, Masood Ghouse 3 PMID: 35210894PMCID: PMC8863340DOI: 10.2147/JBM.S350290 J Blood Med.  2022; 13: 69–74.Published online 2022 Feb 18. doi: 10.2147/JBM.S350290 Abstract As of September 2021, SARS-CoV-2 booster shots became widely available in the US to ensure continued protection against the virus. A temporal relationship has been previously reported between the first or second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine […]

Severe aplastic anemia after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination: Causality or coincidence?


Authors: Shotaro Tabata 1, Hiroki Hosoi 2, Shogo Murata 1, Satomi Takeda 1, Toshiki Mushino 1, Takashi Sonoki 1PMID: 34920343 PMCID: PMC8668346I: 10.1016/j.jaut.2021.102782 J Autoimmun. 2022 Jan; 126: 102782.Published online 2021 Dec 14. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2021.102782 Abstract The development of various autoimmune diseases has been reported after COVID-19 infections or vaccinations. However, no method for assessing the relationships between vaccines and the development of autoimmune diseases has been established. Aplastic anemia (AA) is […]

Bone Marrow Suppression Secondary to the COVID-19 Booster Vaccine: A Case Report


Authors: Toral Shastri 1, Navkiran Randhawa 2, Ragia Aly 3, Masood Ghouse 3 PMID: 35210894 PMCID: PMC8863340DOI: 10.2147/JBM.S350290 Abstract As of September 2021, SARS-CoV-2 booster shots became widely available in the US to ensure continued protection against the virus. A temporal relationship has been previously reported between the first or second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and the development of thrombocytopenia. However, adverse events related […]

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans


Authors: Jackson S. Turner, Wooseob Kim, Elizaveta Kalaidina, Charles W. Goss, Adriana M. Rauseo, Aaron J. Schmitz, Lena Hansen, Alem Haile, Michael K. Klebert, Iskra Pusic, Jane A. O’Halloran, Rachel M. Presti & Ali H. Ellebedy  Nature volume 595, pages421–425 (2021) Abstract Long-lived bone marrow plasma cells (BMPCs) are a persistent and essential source of protective antibodies1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 have a substantially lower risk of reinfection with […]

A review: Antibody-dependent enhancement in COVID-19: The not so friendly side of antibodies


Authors: Gabriela Athziri Sánchez-Zuno,1,†Mónica Guadalupe Matuz-Flores,1,†Guillermo González-Estevez,1Ferdinando Nicoletti,2Francisco Javier Turrubiates-Hernández,1Katia Mangano,2 and José Francisco Muñoz-Valle1 Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2021 Jan-Dec; 35: 20587384211050199.Published online 2021 Oct 10. doi: 10.1177/20587384211050199PMCID: PMC8512237PMID: 34632844 Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), represents an unprecedented global public health emergency with economic and social consequences. One of the […]

Immunoglobulin signature predicts risk of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome


Authors: Carlo Cervia, Yves Zurbuchen, Patrick Taeschler, Tala Ballouz, Dominik Menges, Sara Hasler,  Sarah Adamo, Miro E. Raeber, Esther Bächli, Alain Rudiger, Melina Stüssi-Helbling, Lars C. Huber,  Jakob Nilsson, Ulrike Held, Milo A. Puhan & Onur Boyman  Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 446 (2022)  Abstract Following acute infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) a significant proportion of individuals develop prolonged symptoms, a serious condition termed post-acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) […]

Necessity of COVID-19 Vaccination in Persons Who Have Already Had COVID-19


Authors: Nabin K Shrestha, Patrick C Burke, Amy S Nowacki, Paul Terpeluk, Steven M Gordon Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciac022, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac022 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in persons with prior COVID-19.Methods Employees of Cleveland Clinic working in Ohio on Dec 16, 2020, the day COVID-19 vaccination was started, were included. Anyone who tested […]

New data show those who recovered from Covid-19 were less likely than vaccinated to get infected during Delta wave


Authors: Andrew Joseph  Jan. 19, 2022 New data released Wednesday showed that both vaccination and prior infection offered strong protection against infection and hospitalization from Covid-19 during the Delta wave — and that case and hospitalization rates were actually lower among people who had recovered from Covid-19 than among those who had been vaccinated. The […]

T-Cells “Minimize” Damage Caused By Omicron, Studies Show


Authors: Joseph Adinolfi Jr.  Two new studies – one from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and one from the University of Cape Town in South Africa – have just reminded humanity that our antibodies aren’t the last line of defense against COVID, and its newest variant, omicron. Both have confirmed that T-cells, what Bloomberg describes as the […]