CDC MMWR data shows that the best protection is a combination of vaccination and natural immunity but that natural immunity alone is just as good if not better than vaccine immunity alone.
Let's be clear, this video is NOT suggesting that people purposely go and get infected to try to get immunity. That would be dumb.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm7104e1_w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWb8WMlUeR8
A few days ago, Instagram censored the Cochrane Collaboration, one of the most respected and widely used information sources in medicine. This was completely ridiculous.
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-news-spreads-faster-true-news-twitter-thanks-people-not-bots
the birthday paradox
https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZctrOjjW8KU
Recently there was a report of a Florida physician, Dr. Gregory Michael, who died a few weeks after vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine from a stroke resulting from ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura). In this video, we discuss the possibility that the death was a result of the vaccine and the risks of vaccination.
Links from this video
IFR estimates
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v7.full.pdf
Covid-19 and ITP
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7501509/
MMR vaccine complications
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236288/
Vaccine administration data
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
VAERS website
https://vaers.hhs.gov/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvuM_LY8c4
OK, this is going to be a controversial video but I think it's very interesting to go over the current state of information about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
A few points.
1. No one (certainly not me) knows the origin of the virus. There is no evidence that definitely points to one origin vs another.
2. This is my opinion only based on the current information that I have and my opinion will likely change if new information changes my thoughts on it.
Interviews with prominent scientists that believe the lab escape theory is likely or plausible.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/05/david-relman-on-investigating-origin-of-coronavirus.html
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/an-interview-with-richard-ebright-anthony-fauci-francis-collins-systematically-thwarted/
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246
Why it's unlikely that virus was engineered.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727449/
Article rebutting some of the lab leak theory points.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3
SARS virus found 14 years after virus emergence.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9
Gain of function papers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936131/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
Furin cleavage sites are common
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506120304165?via%3Dihub
CGGCGG motif is definitely found in other coronaviruses
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KJ556336.1
Most recent paper analyzing the current information as of July 7,2021
https://zenodo.org/record/5075888#.YQcqPI5KhhF
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkkXnlApq38
It's far to early to tell but we go over one of the ways that the news reports science is problematic.
Links
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/05/new-israeli-covid-drug-cured-30-cases-disease-hailed-scientists/
https://www.nature.com/articles/cmi2009119
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXJU6i3dzM
In this video, a brief history and background on adenoviral vaccines and the development of the Janssen AD26 platform and the FDA EUA application for the joint Johnson&Johnson/Janssen adenovirus based covid vaccine.
Links
Background of adenoviral vaccines.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126236/
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaax3567#:~:text=Species%20D%20adenovirus%20type%2026,3%20clinical%20trials%20for%20Ebola.
Development of the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-020-00243-x
FDA EUA document of phase III data
https://www.fda.gov/media/146217/download
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QibdR-l01Fw
Interesting article I just ran into that claimed that scientists have determined that parasitic worms might be the fountain of youth. Of course, this is a gross exaggeration but it did lead to an interesting article talking about the role that helminths play in regulating our immune system and may be a way of treating many of the inflammatory diseases we deal with today.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/14/parasitic-worms-could-hold-key-anti-ageing-researchers-suggest
https://elifesciences.org/articles/65180
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUqb7AQYW8