USF researchers find chlorine dioxide gas 99.91% effective against COVID-19 virus – College of Public Health News

After one hour, there was a 99.91 percent reduction in the virus versus a non-treated control. After two hours, there was a 99.997 percent reduction.

“This work demonstrates that chlorine dioxide gas can be an effective disinfectant [allowing for] little to no exposure and rapid degradation of residuals,” Harbison said. “Relatively short fumigation of enclosed spaces, such as patient rooms, classrooms and inside ambulances and emergency vehicles, would allow for fast sterilization with less manual labor required of the cleaning staff. What’s more,” Harbison added, “chlorine dioxide is a gas and has the advantage of reaching places liquid disinfectants cannot, providing better efficacy for eliminating the virus.”

COPH research team finds chlorine dioxide gas 99.91% effective against COVID-19 virus - College of Public Health News
COVID-19 has taught us a lot of things. And one of the more important lessons has been the need for thorough, fast and effective disinfecting measures. A team of researchers from the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center for Environmental/ Occupational Risk Analysis an…

Rapid initiation of nasal saline irrigation to reduce morbidity and mortality in COVID+ outpatients

SARS-CoV-2+ participants initiating nasal irrigation were over 8 times less likely to be hospitalized than the national rate.

Rapid initiation of nasal saline irrigation to reduce morbidity and mortality in COVID+ outpatients: a randomized clinical trial compared to a national dataset
Importance SARS-CoV-2 enters the nasopharynx to replicate; mechanical debridement with nasal irrigation soon after diagnosis could reduce morbidity and mortality. Objective To determine whether initiating nasal irrigation after COVID-19 diagnosis reduces hospitalizations and death, and whether irri…

Why Fauci initially told people not to wear masks

“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes on March 8, 2020.

“What about a month or so or two or three ago when people were saying ‘you don’t really need to wear a mask’. Well the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community and many people were saying this were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment (including the n95 masks and the surgical masks) were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people (namely the health care workers who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm ways to take care of people who you know are infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected we did not want them to be without the equipment that they needed so there was not enthusiasm about going out and everybody buying a mask or getting a mask we were afraid that that would deter away and the people who really needed it.”

 

Myocarditis onset up to 94 days after vaccine

  1. Among the 445 reports of myocarditis/pericarditis following Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine (administered to those 12 years of age and older):
    • Symptoms started between 5 minutes and 94 days after vaccination
  2. Among the 306 reports of myocarditis following vaccination with a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine (administered to those 12 years of age and older):
    • Symptoms started between 14 minutes and 69 days after vaccination

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/

Polio “iron lungs” meme

This meme makes the issue seem so clear.

And yet the fact that we have such a short memory works in both directions when it comes to polio vaccines.

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In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned. Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine had caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10.

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Of course, they eventually came up with an effective polio vaccine.

But the polo vaccines offer lifelong (or at least near-lifelong) immunity.

The covid vaccines seem to last for ~6 months.

The polio vaccines also offer sterilizing immunity, preventing infection and protecting against disease and transmission.

The covid vaccines are quite effective at reducing illness and hospitalization. But it’s becoming evident that they do not prevent infection and transmission of the virus.

Another way in which the polio / covid analogy falls apart is that polio vaccines were administered during polio epidemics. In other words: regional outbreaks. And they were administered (and continue to be administered) in areas where no polio is present.

By contrast, the covid vaccines are being administered during a pandemic. Covid is everywhere, all around the world, and the goal of creating herd immunity in specific populations with a non-sterilizing vaccine is a totally different scenario. So far it does not seem to be anywhere near ending the crisis,  even in the countries with the highest vaccination rates in the world.

Meanwhile, the WHO have stated that we are never going to end the pandemic by vaccinating people in developed countries while ignoring people in the developing world. The people who need the vaccine the most are the ones in crowded slums with poor sanitation, and it is from those countries that the next variants will continue to emerge.

P.S. One last thing: polio ravages children. Covid does not. Please think extra carefully before vaccinating children for something that does not cause them significant harm.

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Sources:

How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis | NIH

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/

Polio Vaccine Effectiveness and Duration of Protection | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-duration-protection.html

WHO asks wealthy nations to hold off on Covid vaccine boosters at least through September | WHO

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/who-calls-for-moratorium-on-covid-vaccine-boosters-at-least-through-september.html

Vaccinated people are just as capable of contracting and transmitting covid asymptomatically

We are well past the point where this type of divisiveness is not only toxic, it is completely unfounded.

It turns out that vaccinated people are just as capable of contracting and transmitting covid, AND they’re more likely to do so asymptomatically without even realizing it.

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[The CDC] released a study that showed the Delta variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they got infected — data that suggests vaccinated people who get a breakthrough infection could have a similar tendency to spread the virus as the unvaccinated.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

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“There are reports coming in that vaccinated populations have cases of infection, particularly with the delta variant,” Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist, said at a press briefing Monday. “The majority of these are mild or asymptomatic infections.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/12/most-fully-vaccinated-people-who-get-covid-delta-infections-are-asymptomatic-who-says-.html

I’m sorry that our politicians and public health “experts” — who claim to “follow the science” — are actually spreading misinformation that isn’t based on current science whatsoever.

I hope people will begin to think for themselves.

Alberta > Open letter: health care workers against mandatory vaccinations

An open letter penned by Alberta Health Services (AHS) workers was sent to AHS on Monday by Calgary constitutional lawyer Carol Crosson.

The letter was signed by 3,544 health care workers including 73 physicians, 1,111 nurses, 227 paramedics and thousands of allied health professionals, pharmacists, dentists, lab workers, psychologists and counselling professionals, medical students, AHS administrative and support staff and other health care professionals.

Open-Letter-To-AHS-revised-signatories-Sept-22

OPEN LETTER: Health care workers against mandatory vaccinations
The letter was signed by 3,544 health care workers including 73 physicians, 1,111 nurses, 227 paramedics and thousands of allied health professionals, pharmacists, dentists, lab workers, psychologists and counselling professionals, medical students, AHS administrative and support staff and other hea…