(12-12-2021, 01:33 AM)Mav date Wrote:The Perils of Flawed Research and the Ivermectin Debacle, Medical News Today.

Quote:The clinical study was entirely fabricated and later withdrawn from the preprint server, subsequent to great scandal.

The ivermectin story somehow got even worse from there. In late 2020, studies started popping up showing what can only be described as simply incredible results for the medication — a 90% mortality benefit or a 100% reduction in cases when used as a prophylactic.

After nearly a year, myself and other data sleuths demonstrated that many of these studies probably never happened, but the damage was well and truly done long before the first fake paper was retracted.

Quote:Fitz: I was fascinated by a tweet you did in November. You said “We must follow Singapore and legislate no medical or hospital expenses to be reimbursed to people who are not vaccinated without medical justification and then contract COVID. You ignored warnings and got the disease. You pay for your wilful stupidity, not us.” Do you stand behind that?

BC: Yes. And I speak for two categories. The overstressed frontline workers in our health system. They shouldn’t have to look after simpletons who believe rubbish on the web, and ignore medical advice. Second, Australians with manageable conditions like diabetes or asthma who may face a life-or-death crisis from contracting COVID. They have rights too.

PF: You will be accused by the nutters of being “a fascist” pushing “medical apartheid”, and threatened with facing a modern version of the Nuremberg trials. This is consistent with something that seems to be seeping into Australia from American: extreme-right nuttery. How dangerous is it and what can be done about it?

BC: Very dangerous. America started climate change denialism. It was picked up from American think tanks funded by the carbon lobby and let loose here by right-wing Coalition politicians. We’ve seen extremists adopting postures devised by gun-toting QAnon warriors with their animal head-dress, threatening the breezy freedoms of Aussie life.

PF: What can be done about it, Bob?

BC: It needs principled people on the conservative side of Australian politics to speak out, to stand up against it, as Malcolm Fraser did on racism, or as John Howard did on guns and say we want nothing to do with your noxious agenda. Stop this. This is Australia, full of funny friendly people who can boast a higher civic IQ.

PF: Do you view Scott Morrison as one of those principled people?

BC: The challenge is in his court.

(12-12-2021, 10:31 PM)madbluboy date Wrote:The CDC said that while many of the first reported Omicron cases appear to be mild, a lag exists between infection and more severe outcomes. Symptoms would also be expected to be milder in vaccinated persons and those with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

(12-12-2021, 10:31 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:Dec 10 (Reuters) - Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that of the 43 cases attributed to Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated. Fourteen of them had also received a booster, although five of those cases occurred less than 14 days after the additional shot before full protection kicks in.
While the numbers are very small, they add to growing concerns that current COVID-19 vaccines may offer less protection against the highly transmissible new variant.
Among the Omicron cases, 25 were in people aged 18 to 39 and 14 had traveled internationally. Six people had previously been infected with the coronavirus.

Most of them only had mild symptoms such as coughing, congestion, and fatigue, the report said, and one person was hospitalized for two days. Other symptoms reported less frequently including nausea or vomiting, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, diarrhea and loss of taste or smell.
The CDC said that while many of the first reported Omicron cases appear to be mild, a lag exists between infection and more severe outcomes. Symptoms would also be expected to be milder in vaccinated persons and those with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.