Exercise and vitamin D3 are beneficial, omicron is mild in children, asymptomatic spread with Omicron is significant
Highlights:
The overall conclusions of this article do not match the fearful messaging of the title.
Hospital admissions of children under 1 year old have risen steeply, coinciding with transmission of the omicron variantThe alpha and delta variants were also associated with increased cases in children, raising concerns that children would be more vulnerable to these variants and would become sicker. But this turned out not to be the case.
And the indications are that children admitted to hospital with omicron are even less sick, as they require less support than children admitted earlier in the pandemic and are discharged earlier.
Oxygen use by children aged under 1 admitted in the past four weeks for whom data are available was 12%, compared with 22.5% in the first wave of the pandemic.
Admission to intensive care was 9.9% (v 14%),
Use of mechanical ventilation was 2% (v 5.8%),
Use of non-invasive ventilation was 2% (v 7.2%), and mean length of stay was 1.7 days (v 6.6 days).
A rapid review by NHS England of 55 babies admitted to hospital with omicron found that most were aged under 3 months and that around half were admitted for observation and received no treatment, “Clinically, this picture is incredibly reassuring,”
Camilla Kingdon, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said, “As pediatricians, we are accustomed to having busy winters where we see lots of particularly under 1s, typically, with high fevers, often with some kind of respiratory distress.”
She noted an increase in babies testing positive for omicron but lots of other respiratory viruses also circulating. “The presentation of these babies very much fits in with a mix of what we would expect to see in a busy winter in the UK,” she said.
Kingdon added that South Africa had also seen a sharp rise in hospital admissions of under 5s associated with omicron but that most had not needed supportive care and had required a shorter length of stay.
The CDC explained that many children were admitted with covid-19 rather than because of it.
And just like that…
Jan 19
England went to Plan C: Virus Gonna Virus.
Already playing in Florida and most red states. Coming soon to Israel, Europe, and a blue city near you.
High Rate of Asymptomatic Carriage Associated with Variant Strain Omicron medRXiv January 14, 2022 (not yet peer reviewed)
Highlights:
Findings of this study strongly suggest that Omicron has a much higher rate of asymptomatic transmission (infectivity) than other variants and this high prevalence of asymptomatic infection is likely a major factor in the widespread, rapid dissemination of the variant globally, even among populations with high prior rates of SARS-COV-2 infection.
Does Regular Exercise Counter T Cell Immunosenescence Reducing the Risk of Developing Cancer and Promoting Successful Treatment of Malignancies? Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2017;2017:4234765. doi: 10.1155/2017/4234765. Epub 2017 Jul 2. PMID: 28751932; PMCID: PMC5511671.
Highlights:
Moderate intensity aerobic exercise training or regular physical activity is beneficial for immune function.
For example, some evidence shows that individuals with an active lifestyle exhibit stronger immune responses to vaccination compared to those who are inactive. Encouragingly, poor vaccine responses, which are characteristic of an aging immune system, can be improved by single or repeated bouts of exercise (by association, exercise will also improve the immune system overall).
This article summarizes the aspects of immune function that are sensitive to exercise-induced change, highlighting the observations which have stimulated the idea that aerobic exercise training could prevent, limit, or delay immunosenescence, perhaps even restoring aged immune profiles.
These potential exercise-induced anti-immunosenescence effects might contribute to the mechanisms by which active lifestyles reduce the risk of developing cancer and perhaps benefit patients undergoing cancer therapy.
Vitamin D Status and SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes. Front Public Health. 2021 Dec 22;9:736665. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.736665. PMID: 35004568; PMCID: PMC8727532.
Contagion and the Prophecy of Pandemic Planning
Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a research fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge in Israel, about what the VAERS data tell us about the COVID jabs’ risks. As noted by Rose, the average number of adverse event reports following vaccination for the past 10 years has been about 39,000 annually, with an average of 155 deaths. That’s for all available vaccines combined.
Kachelman: Alert to a Most Disturbing Survey of January 2022!
Look at the highlighted points of the Rasmussen survey posted 13 January…This is the USA folks!
59% of self-identified Democrats support the government requiring unvaccinated individuals to stay at homes “at all times” unless an emergency arises that warrants going outside. 35% of Democrats surveyed “strongly” support the government confining the unvaccinated.
These are people with serious mental illness. Click the link to see more of what the mob wants…
The European (EEA and non-EEA countries) database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, verified by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and they are now reporting 37,927 fatalities, and 3,392,632 injuries following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:
Soros General Demands Purge of Military?!?
England Ends All COVID Passports, Mask Mandates, Work Restrictions
News of the World
The good, the bad and the ugly
Jan 19
OK, let’s start with JP!
Seriously, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
England Ends All COVID Passports, Mask Mandates, Work Restrictions Epoch Times, January 19, 2022
Restrictions including COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home guidance will be removed in England, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday.
Johnson also suggested that self-isolation rules may also be thrown out at the end of March as the… pandemic becomes endemic.
Effective immediately, the UK government is no longer asking people to work from home.
The COVID pass mandate for nightclubs and large events won’t be renewed when it expires on Jan. 26.
And from Thursday, indoor mask-wearing will no longer be compulsory anywhere in England.
Public Health Scotland COVID-19 & Winter Statistical Report As at 17 January 2022 Publication date: 19 January 2022
Public health Scotland wants to make it perfectly clear that even though unvaccinated have the lowest case rate per 100,000 of all the cohorts,
“a simple comparison of COVID-19 case rates in those who are vaccinated and unvaccinated should not be used to assess how effective a vaccine is in preventing serious health outcomes, because there are a number of differences between the groups, other than the vaccine itself, and these biases mean that you cannot use the rates to determine how well the vaccines work.”
Read the report and make your own judgement…
Moderna no longer used to vaccinate under-31s. Brussels Times, January 13, 2022
Brussels joins several Nordic countries, who also stopped using Moderna for those 30 and under, due to the the potential for heart inflammation:
Sweden’s health ministry announced on Wednesday that it was pausing injections of Moderna’s vaccine for those aged 30 and younger. Denmark announced a similar pause for those aged 18 and younger, according to Bloomberg.
Finland followed suit on Thursday. Finnish health official Mika Salminen said the government was pausing injections of Moderna’s vaccine into males aged 30 and under. All three countries cited evidence that Moderna’s vaccine may be a source of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, in young people.
World Health Organization: ‘No Evidence At All’ That Healthy Children, Adolescents Need Boosters Daily Wire, January 19, 2022
The World Health Organization’s top scientist said during a media briefing on Tuesday that there is no evidence that healthy children and adolescents need booster shots and that the goal needs to be protecting specific vulnerable populations.
“The aim is to protect the most vulnerable, to protect those at highest risk of severe disease and dying,” the W.H.O.’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said. “Those are our elderly populations, the immunocompromised, people with underlying conditions, but also health care workers because if a lot of health care workers get infected as we see now, they can be out sick and we don’t want them getting severely ill.”
“There’s no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters,” she added. “No evidence at all.”
Highlights:
This study was conducted to address ways to modify population behavior by using more fear-based language.
The authors suggest using language, such as crude mortality rates to raise more anxiety. The authors believe that this will lead to more compliance by the general population for lock-downs, CFRs and other such measures.
The authors believe that when people’s ability to cope with anxiety is low, it is more likely that people will comply with preventive measures such as social distancing.
Risk avoidance (preferences) can be connected to not gathering in public, staying at home, and avoiding going to grocery shops as individuals avoid unpredictable situations.
The authors state that another recent study shows increasing risk perception from public health communications helps contain the virus
(Factcheck: this was not actually what other study concluded:
“the present study found that geographical regions and behaviors in using social media have a positive impact on the risk perception of COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam.” The study did not address whether these communications would actually cause containment of the virus”
The authors recommend policy makers to regularly provide clear definitions of the various COVID-19 indicators to compensate for the lack of objective information often provided by the media.
The authors favor the usage of the crude mortality rates during normal pandemic times, when the objective is to make people used to wearing masks indoor and regularly use disinfectants.
Increase people’s understanding of the pandemic’s gravity in order to increase the usage of CFRs. This is especially useful when governments seek people’s support of measures that limit the organization of social events.