Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19

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Authors: Stephanie Seneff1and Greg Nigh21Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge MA, 02139, USA, E-mail: seneff@csail.mit.edu 2Naturopathic Oncology, Immersion Health, Portland, OR 97214, USA ABSTRACT Operation Warp Speed brought to market in the United States two mRNA vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Interim data suggested high efficacy for both of these vaccines, which […]

Hidden History When Vaccines go wrong…This chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous

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Authors: By —Nsikan Akpan The deadliest strains of viruses often take care of themselves — they flare up and then die out. This is because they are so good at destroying cells and causing illness that they ultimately kill their host before they have time to spread. But a chicken virus that represents one of […]

Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens

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Authors: Andrew F. Read ,Susan J. Baigent,Claire Powers,Lydia B. Kgosana,Luke Blackwell,Lorraine P. Smith,David A. Kennedy,Stephen W. Walkden-Brown,Venugopal K. Nair Abstract Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission […]

How Likely Are Vaccinated People To Get Meaningfully Sick From Delta?

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Authors: DYLAN HOUSMAN The reality that breakthrough cases exist and being vaccinated doesn’t guarantee protection from COVID-19 has raised a new question in the minds of many Americans: just how likely is it that someone will get seriously ill from the delta variant of COVID-19 if they are vaccinated? Some clinical data suggests that vaccine […]

Covid-19 Pandemic-Scared-Vaccinated

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Authors: Authored by Emily Miller via Emily Posts The Scared Vaccinated and the Grateful Vaccinated Fauci, CNN and Aniston are spokesmen for the Scared Vaccinated. Their opposites are the Grateful Vaccinated, who have little to worry about COVID. Nine out of 10 of the vaccinated will not catch the virus. That one “breakthrough” case will […]

What Does COVID Do to Your Blood?

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Authors: Panagis Galiatsatos, M.D., M.H.S., Robert Brodsky, M.D. COVID-19 is a very complex illness. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 attacks the body in many different ways, ranging from mild to life threatening. Different organs and tissues of the body can be affected, including the blood. Robert Brodsky, a blood specialist who directs the Division of […]

How To Increase Platelet Count In COVID Patients? What Is Thrombocytopenia?

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Authors: Ananya Varma Platelets are said to play an important role in inflammatory signalling. Here is why it is important to keep a check of Platelet count in COVID patients.  Given that COVID-19 is a relatively novel disease, newer research continues to emerge into its characteristics with scientists now linking rapidly decreasing platelets to be a symptom of […]

Thrombocytopenia following Pfizer and Moderna SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination

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Authors: Eun‐Ju Lee, 1 Douglas B. Cines, 2 Terry Gernsheimer, 3 Craig Kessler, 4 Marc Michel, 5 Michael D. Tarantino, 6 John W. Semple, 7 Donald M. Arnold, 8 Bertrand Godeau, 5 Michele P. Lambert, 9 , 10 and James B. Bussel 11 Cases of apparent secondary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) after SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination with both the Pfizer and Moderna versions have been reported and reached public attention. Public alarm was heightened following the death of the first identified […]

Platelets Promote Thromboinflammation in SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia

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Authors: Francesco Taus, Gianluca Salvagno, Stefania Canè, Cristiano Fava, Fulvia Mazzaferri, Elena Carrara, Varvara Petrova, Roza Maria Barouni, Francesco Dima, Andrea Dalbeni, Simone Romano, Abstract Objective: Pulmonary thrombosis is observed in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pneumonia. Aim was to investigate whether subpopulations of platelets were programmed to procoagulant and inflammatory activities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with pneumonia, without comorbidities predisposing to […]

Platelet Gene Expression and Function in COVID-19 Patients

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Authors: Bhanu Kanth Manne (University of Utah, United States) Frederik Denorme (Molecular Medicine Program, University of Utah, United States), Elizabeth Middleton (University of Utah, United States), Irina Portier (University of Utah, United States) Jesse Rowley (University of Utah, United, States) Chris Stubben (University of Utah, United States) Aaron Petrey (University of Utah, United States) Neal […]