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State launching new campaign to promote vaccination in young people

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source:   https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/07/26/state-launching-new-campaign-to-promote-vaccination-in-young-people/ HOUSTON – With COVID-19 cases on the rise, state health officials are starting to target young people in a new campaign promoting vaccination. The campaign will launch with a pop-up event at the Walmart on the North Freeway and Crosstimbers and will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Officials with the Texas Department … Read more

Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates

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Key Points: It can be observed that at Ct = 25, up to 70% of patients remain positive in culture. At Ct = 30 this value drops to 20%. At Ct = 35, the value we used to report a positive result for PCR, <3% of cultures are positive. PDF:    Extract Rita Jaafar, Sarah … Read more

Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests “Unreliable” & Quarantines “Unlawful”

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/portuguese-court-rules-pcr-tests-unreliable-quarantines-unlawful Further, the ruling suggested that any forced quarantine applied to healthy people could be a violation of their fundamental right to liberty. Most importantly, the judges ruled that a single positive PCR test cannot be used as an effective diagnosis of infection. The specifics of the case concern four tourists entering the country from Germany … Read more

Why Is The CDC Quietly Abandoning The PCR Test For COVID?

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https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-cdc-quietly-abandoning-pcr-test-covid We have detailed (most recently here and here) the controversy surrounding America’s COVID “casedemic” and the misleading results of the PCR test and its amplification procedure in great detail over the past few months. As a reminder, “cycle thresholds” (Ct) are the level at which widely used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test can detect a sample of the COVID-19 … Read more

Daily COVID Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns

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Article link:  https://fee.org/articles/daily-covid-deaths-in-sweden-hit-zero-as-other-nations-brace-for-more-lockdowns/ More than 100,000 people flooded streets in France over the weekend and multiple COVID vaccination centers were vandalized as opposition grew to the government’s most recent pandemic strategy. In President Emmanuel Macron’s latest incarnation of lockdowns, government officials have decreed that unvaccinated individuals will no longer be allowed to enter cafes, restaurants, theaters, public transportation and … Read more

Fauci Blindsided by Israeli Data Showing Pfizer Vax Only 39% Effective at Stopping Delta Variant

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The US and other Western nations are preparing to roll out booster shots for the various “99 percent effective” corona vaccines as new data out of Israel indicates the Pfizer shot is at most only 39 percent effective at preventing infections from the now-dominant Delta strain. Israel now says the Pfizer vaccine is down to … Read more

Natural Immunity Demonstrates Superior Results Compared to Vaccinations

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Original article:  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.10.21260232v2 (SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern exhibit reduced sensitivity to live-virus neutralization in sera from CoronaVac vaccinees and naturally infected COVID-19 patients) PDF of article Excerpt: Abstract Recent surges in SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) call for the need to evaluate levels of vaccine-and infection-induced SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs). CoronaVac (Sinovac Biotech, Beijing, China) … Read more

VA mandates COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers

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WASHINGTON —  The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, as the aggressive delta variant spreads across the nation and some communities report troubling increases in hospitalizations among unvaccinated people. The VA’s move came on a day when nearly 60 leading … Read more

Recent Analysis Demonstrates Natural Immunity Has Superior Long Lasting Memory With B and T-Cells

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Source article:  https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(21)00203-2#relatedArticles PDF:  Extract: Highlights Most recovered COVID-19 patients mount broad, durable immunity after infection Neutralizing antibodies show a bi-phasic decay with half-lives >200 days Spike IgG+ memory B cells increase and persist post-infection Durable polyfunctional CD4 and CD8 T cells recognize distinct viral epitope regions Summary Ending the COVID-19 pandemic will require long-lived immunity to … Read more