T. Belman. Notwithstanding the large number of people that have been vaccinated this year, we are about to beat the daily record of infections which was recorded in Jan 2021. So much for the vaccines. Dr. Gina Louden said we are far better off going with therapeutics and developing immunity.
Country poised to break previous record of 10,1178 infections, recorded in January 2021. Infections triple in Haredi community just two weeks after students head back to school. FDA gives full approval for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.
By Assaf Golan , Maytal Yasur Beit-Or , Shimon Yaish and AP 08-24-2021 12:49
The COVID ward at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba | Courtesy: Soroka Medical Center
Israel appears poised to break its previous record for confirmed daily cases, according to Health Ministry data released Tuesday. Of the 157,994 people who tested for the virus Monday, 9,831 were found to have the disease. Israel confirmed its highest number of new cases, 10,118, back in January 2021. Over one million people have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic.<
The infection rate stands at 6.63%. The reproduction rate, which relates to the number of people each confirmed carrier infects, is 1.19.
The country has 72,572 active cases of the virus. There are 678 people in serious condition, 123 of whom are on ventilators.
Although 925,941 people have recovered from the virus, 6,864 have died.
Among those Israelis eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, fewer than 1 million – around 978,000 – have yet to get the jab.
Infections have spiked in the Haredi community since students in the community returned to schools on Aug. 9, according to ministry data. At around 4% at the start of the new school year, the community’s infection rate was comparable to that of the general population at the time. In just two weeks, that rate has nearly tripled to 11.48%, while the infection rate in the general population now stands at around 5%. The rapid increase in infections comes despite community members having been found to possess higher antibody levels than the general population officials believed might make them less susceptible to infection.
In an interview with Army Radio Tuesday, coronavirus cabinet member and Housing and Construction Minister Ze’ev Elkin said: “The increase in seriously ill patients is much slower, but this is a kind of illusion. The experts said it is clear those who got the third vaccine dose are less at risk of becoming seriously ill, but if we don’t succeed in stopping the new infections –– the number of patients in serious condition will continue to climb.”
Former Health Ministry Director-General Hezi Levy called lockdown “a doomsday device” in an interview with Army Radio Tuesday.
“I don’t think we need to get there. I doubt it will do what we need it to do. The people are tired, and we cannot be sure people will abide by the guidelines,” he said.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced the government would now offer at-home vaccinations alongside the addition of hundreds of medical workers in an effort to rein in morbidity levels.
Meanwhile, the government updated its blacklist of countries Israelis are barred from visiting, Monday, so that it now includes Bulgaria, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. Georgia and Spain were removed from the list.
Also on Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, potentially boosting public confidence in the shots and instantly paving the way for more universities, companies, and local governments to make vaccinations mandatory.
Hundreds of millions of Pfizer doses have been administered worldwide since the FDA approved the vaccine for emergency use in December. In going a step further and granting full approval, the FDA cited months of real-world evidence that serious side effects are extremely rare.
US President Joe Biden said that for those who hesitated to get the vaccine until it received what he dubbed the “gold standard” of FDA approval, “the moment you’ve been waiting for is here.”
Pfizer said the US is the first country to grant full approval of its vaccine, in a process that required a 360,000-page application and rigorous inspections. Never before has the FDA has so much evidence to judge a shot’s safety.
The formula, jointly developed with Germany’s BioNTech, will be marketed under the brand name Comirnaty.
Moderna, whose vaccines Israel also acquired, has also applied to the FDA for full approval of its vaccine.
@Adam
Looking closer at the actual results shows a glaring reality. They found very few events to actually report on. The Relative Risks Reduction has HUGE confidence intervals which means that the samples of affected people are too small. For instance, the confidence intervals for the myocarditis is very wide in both the vax and un-vax. This means that the results are too small. The study was based on nearly 2million people, but no one, relatively, became ill. In fact, the vax only had 21 cases of myocarditis and the unvax had only 19 cases. The reason for the variance between the two is the control groups. Fewer people in the control for the unvax were diagnosed with myocarditis(1) as compared to the vax(6). This basically indicates that the real numbers could be wildly off and subsequent testing is strongly indicated. Let me explain this better: out of 2million people, only 47 people were diagnosed with myocarditis. It is this sliver of the 2million that are being considered. 47 is a really really small sample size to base anything on. Which is why they have HUGE confidence intervals. The intervals are so large, they make the risk reduction values pretty useless, since the vax could be as high as 12.4X or as low as 1.5X. Likewise the interval on the unvax could be as high as 25.1X or as low as 3.9X(and no, you can’t compare the two confidence intervals, as the comparison is not meaningful). Some may find this as unimpressive, but you should because it means the findings of this 2million group observational study is very unrewarding and without many other such studies, the findings are quite unhelpful, even as they will be used as the latest sales pitch to sell the CDC vax program.
The glaring point at issue, however is the safety of the vax. We know we can safely treat the Covid disease, even if we won’t. The question remains can we safely vaccinate people with this vax that has many thousands of people dying within hours, literally, of being vaccinated. We still don’t have an answer to this, and that should concern everyone of us.
I should have come to this conclusion sooner, as the intervals were alarming, but I wanted to see the actual data collected which would have been easier to find, but the raw data was buried on the very last page of an 80page supplemental appendix. Let me know if anything here is not clear.
@Adam
Something else not in the report that is glaring that has been bothering me about that report since I read it last night. They list about 3 issues with the vax that are not even the primary concerns. Where are the findings of the nervous twitches, the anaphylaxis, the sudden death, the heart attacks, the miscarriages, the low platelets, permanent disabilities. This report is hiding more than it is sharing. These are relevant issues reported by the thousands. Their occurrence needs to be divulged.
How many suffered from comorbidity?
How many have the Flu instead but listed as Covid19?
Have the numbers fallen off on the yearly flu count?
How many are very sick with illness caused not by the virus
but by the vaccine?
@Adam
No- No change in my opinion. Sorry if I was not clear, but my view on the vax is more certain now than ever. This is just my opinion, but it is absolute.
Vaccines should DO NO HARM. No matter what they cure, they should not kill you, even by accident. The vax causes a 3.24X increase in myocarditis. That is TERRIBLE. That doesn’t include anything subclinical, where they diagnose it on the autopsy. Any other vaccine would be ripped off the market with this finding. Instead they simply approved it! How is it safe if it causes heart disease? Easy question, right? What are they going to develop to treat the myocarditis?(Sarcasm). What other vaccine causes 3.24X increase in myocarditis? NONE!! The vaccine is suppose to be safe. It simply is not.
This disease has killed over 4,000,000 people. This is a sobering number. Anyone who is alarmed that a lethal disease that kills people by the millions is not going to have alarmingly high associations with lethal conditions is not being honest or is just deluding themselves. The reality is that the virus only killed them because we let the virus kill them. That is the truth that they want you to forget while taking that vax as the only substitute for death and disease.
This is not a contest of what I want to die from – virus vs vax. I want to live, without a vaccine acquired heart ailment. I want them to pursue safe treatments. These 4million people who died could have been save if they had been treated. Easily between 2-3million could have been saved if they had been treated, and likely more than that. And we should treat them, not with leaky vax that cause heart disease but with actually safe and effective drugs and simple neutriceuticals that are now prescription based only, after being available freely for decades. This is sickening.
Sorry, if I was not more clear, but I am never taking that vax. Never.
Peloni, from your most recent comment about the Clal-Harvard study, I get the impression that you now recommend vaccination. Do I accurately understand your present views on this issue? Best wishes and many thanks for all of the information you have given us (this question is not intended as criticism. It is sincere, not rhetorical.)
This study to me is more solid evidence that the mRNA vaccines are not perfect but certainly way better than not getting vaccinated. I do not believe the studies were fixed. Then that is my view others certainly have different views.
Full Article at https://www.jpost.com/health-science/serious-adverse-events-more-likely-from-covid-vs-covid-vaccine-study-677731
Just noticed Adam copied it in comment below mine.
@Adam
Now lets discuss the real story – the vax:
The real story is the vax causes myocarditis to increase by 3.24X(and it could be as high as 12X but let’s ignore that). That is a frightening figure. These are healthy people who are subjected to heart disease because of a vaccination that is still being called safe. All while ignoring safe medications, I continue to be comfounded by this madness. It can not be ignored that this vax was approved in spite of this 3.24X increase in myocarditis. this is a very lethal disease and it is unknown how many people have a subclinical form of this vaccine associated disease. Often the first clinical sign is someone simply dies
I should share that per Dr. McCullough, the vax in Australia is showing a 100X increase in deaths in people taking vaccines vs people being infected with Delta without treatment, which is a very alarming differential. Delta is just not very lethal, so these studies that should have been available last year or earlier this year may be quite dodgy to base decisions on at this point.
Regarding Reis and his pro-vax buddies, your suspicion is similar to my own. Every nation has a contact for Pharma that I suspect in Israel is played by Reis. It’s listed in the contracts, but the Israeli contract isn’t public. If he isn’t the contact, he still has a strong vested interest in the vax program he is running being perceived as successful. He may be a perfectly honest scientist and I am not slighting him in the least, but he has a conflict of interest that has to be considered. This testing should have been done by a independent third party not associated with Pharma or any govt running the vax program. Reis can not be considered as an independent party. CDC is intent regardless of anything in pushing this vax and without any delay or discussion.
Everything about the vax are run by Pharma or CDC or some associate. Very irregular seeing this is the only oversight we are likely to have, but then again it’s 2021 and there is no oversight. My opinions, all.
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@Adam
I read this study last night, and it is alarming, but not because of the findings about the disease. The funny thing is the study was suppose to be about the vax safety issues, but the article is only warning about the disease.
Let’s discuss the distraction first – the virus.
It is important to compare apples with apples not apples with oranges. Alpha has had dominance in the variants over the first year of the pandemic, pretty consistently. It was responsible for a majority of the deaths in that time. It was very lethal. The vaccine was quite effective at killing Alfa. This is how Delta was able to survive, because the vax is not very good at killing it – it has a leaky effect on Delta and per new research is creating a sub-variant of Delta(Delta+) which is almost immune to the vax[I shared this earlier today]. Why is this important? The data in this study is associated with Alpha which caused a lot more severe disease presentation(2% with Alfa vs 0.2% with Delta). Will the presentation of these various diseases(myocarditis, etc.) in people infected with Alpha still hold true with Delta or Delta+? Hard to say, but a 10-fold decrease in death is a stark difference in lethality. Not wanting to sound like a virologist, but the virus is trying to adapt to us, creating less harmful disease so it can survive – it’s very typical of viral behavior. The disease should not be considered without a healthy respect for its potential harms(there are many), but we should all know that by now – over 4million are dead. I would warn that prevention is important which is why I have called for Early Treatment, but Medical Prophylaxis is better.
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Peloni –below is a report in Arutz Sheva about a study conducted by a joint Clalit , Israel Health Ministry and Harvard University team of researchers, who have concluded that the CV2 causes far more, and worse, adverse effects than the vaccines. There are similar reports about the study in the Jerusalem Post and elsewhere.
I would greatly appreciate any comments you may have about this study. From what you can make out from what you read about it , or here from colleagues about it, whether in Israel or the U.S., do you think the conclusions of the Israel/Harvard research team are likely to be accurate?
One thing that makes me a bit nervous about it is that the director of the team is said to be the Israeli doctor who is also the director of Israel’s response to the virus, which of course emphasizes vaccination. Also, the doctor- professors at the Harvard University Medical School have been from the beginning of the CV2 epidemic known for their strong pro-vaccine opinions. I would feel more comfortable if the researchers had been scientists without this built-in pro-vaccine bias.
@peloni
I understand that any drug or any other substance interferes with human biochemistry, and I have nothing against “understanding and managing diseases in the future”.
Until very recently, medications or treatments were prescribed based on clinical evidence, i.e., based on whether this substance eases the patient’s symptoms or cures him, and then it would be possible to find out how exactly this process works.
What I am against, though, is someone presuming that he knows exactly how this biochemistry works (“we know all there is to know about it” which will never happen, BTW) and then creating a treatment which directly affects the minute details of the biochemical process, including the genetic material, based on a possibly faulty hypothesis which was constructed on the basis of very limited knowledge and unlimited arrogance.
@Reader
You are right but you are also wrong. Intervening with human biochemistry is a terribly bold step that humanity collectively embarked on some time ago. Every time you take an aspirin, you are toxifying your blood, and poisoning the platelets such that those affected will no longer clot blood, til they are replaced with new ones. This displays the fact that no medical introversion is without risk or consequence. Aspirin cause 3k deaths every year in the US. Ibuprofen-class of drugs(NSAID) causes 100k hospitalizations and 16k deaths every year. These are a perfect example of how attempting to achieve a measured gain can have a devastating consequence if not carefully managed. It is a consequence of medical intervention.
This is why, when embarking on new strategies, such as the mRNA gene therapy, the oversight needed to be more stringently pursued rather than the contrary. It is fascinating that we are able to influence the finite workings of the human body. Such influences have enabled people to live longer and more vital lives, continuing to be productive and active members of society. But these medical influences have always been achieved with a reckoning of risk-benefit. The purpose of medicine is to benefit a patient. So we use foreign compounds that each hold a risk. The analysis of this ratio of health risks to health benefit is always considered, very carefully. Til 2020, that is.
It was a loss of respect for the consequence of sloppy testing and carefully interpreted calculations that allowed anyone to presume a risk benefit was known about the vax. It was this lack of respect for the virus, which is very lethal if left untreated, and a lack of respect of the rights of the test subjects, who should always be warned of the risks, that led us to this current use of this vax. Hence, this current fiasco should not keep us from understanding and managing diseases in the future. It should however teach us to maintain a healthy, disciplined respect for the disease we treat and the patient whose health is at risk. This can only be achieved with a carefully considered risk:benefit analysis which has always been done. That is, until 2020.
It scares me to death that they are messing with the human biochemistry.
It is like trying to create or fix fine jewelry with an axe.
Nothing good will come of it.
@Bear
That was a fascinating article. I am even more interested now than before to see the lab results. This article covers the history and development over the past year of various production methods to generate a protein to bind to the ACE2 receptor and either block or repel the SARS-Cov2 virus. There is a great deal of potential available from this concept beyond the SARS-Cov2, so this is very intriguing subject. Unfortunately, it only discusses the actual biochemical-engineering involved in using three models to create the protein and the history of developing the different methods. The animal testing with hamsters will be in the Nature journal, if it ever is replaced. Thanks for finding that.
@Peloni I found this related to the Professor involved in the study on his institute’s (Wiezmann) published papers https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00356
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Zahradník J. & Schreiber G. 2021. Protein Engineering in the Design of Protein–Protein Interactions: SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitors as a Test Case Biochemistry (Easton). 2021 Jul ,
@Peloni thanks for the feedback! If I see background papers I will advise or if I read more on this.
@Bear
Very interesting approach, something similar to this was discussed early last year, but there are serious potential difficulties associated with this plan of attack that can be avoided by other means. The plan of attack as discussed in the citation you provided, and another one in Israel Hayom in a bit more detail, is to place a very tightly binding compound to ACE2 that will not be able to be displaced and will not cause complications to the routine function of ACE2. This would eliminate the creation or importance of variants, to the SARS-Cov2 virus, outside of the animal reservoirs. The problem lies in the target of this approach, ACE2. ACE2 is a very very significant actor in cell health, immune response, inflammation, and blood pressure. It is also the target of many drugs which manipulate ACE2 in order to treat other disease, such as high blood pressure, kidney disease and heart disease. If the target was less significant, I would be less concerned of this approach, honestly. Also, not to get too deep in the weeds, but it may surprise many to learn that we really do not know the finite details of much that goes on within the cells after the ACE2 is internalized(brought into the cell after a stimulating compound binds to it), so I am curious as to the compound they are binding to the ACE2 itself. In total, I am very interested, but leary, personally. I am, of course, interested in reading more on their findings, and I did try to review the printed results of their research on the link at the bottom of the article you cited, but their published findings seem to have been removed, which is curious. The article in Israel Hayom noted they are using animal studies so it is encouraging that we may be returning to a routine testing approach. Novel approaches are exciting, but the consequences of the unexpected/unpredictable can be very difficult to reconcile.
There are, however, traditional approaches that could be pursued where the vaccine mechanism does not result in creating a toxic compound which really is the problem with the current vax. The spike has been found, in May(I believe) to be very toxic which is the reason the current vaccine is associated with its adverse reactions. It is also why the vaccine creates such a strong immune response. If they just use traditional vaccine protocols, they could have created a vaccine that avoided the adverse effects of the gene therapy while still targeting the spike, but this would also have the same problem of creating an evolutionary pressure that resulted in choosing variants that are immune to the vaccine. The best approach to create a vaccine is to create a broad spectrum vaccine that has more than a single target, such as the very tiny spike protein. A traditional vaccine with the nuclear capsid and the spike could provide this broad spectrum.
There is, of course, the non-vaccine medical treatments that could also provide a similar protection and can result in broad immunity to the whole virus.
Hope this helps, and let me know if I was unclear on anything. Also let me know if you find anything more related to their actual printed results.
@Peloni, If you have the time would you be kind enough to read the attached article below and comment on the approach of the Israeli Scientists.
https://www.israel21c.org/putting-a-cork-in-corona/?utm_source=The+Weekly&utm_campaign=weekly-2021-08-25&utm_medium=email
The numbers of infections, new or otherwise only reflect the industrious efficiency of those giving the tests.
The IMPORTANT figures are those reflecting the actual number of those in danger of death or serious after effects.
One thing completely lost in the avaricious picking over local and other news reports (that we can-and DO- read for ourselves) scrambling for COVID-19 figures, is that so far, I have not seen any comparable list of the numbers of deaths caused EVERY year by the major other malignancies and ailments, not to mention natural causes.
I wonder at those who pick out an article from a LOCAL pape that EVERYONE reads, to highlight it on this site. What a waste of time.
Have heart diseases, cancers, old age, and all countless other fatal ailments, taken a holiday during COVID time???
This is a very disturbing document containing a critique and analysis of the FDA approval/authorization which is being used to employ mandates while preventing liability to the drug company. Every section has valid concerns, especially the section on Child Vaccination and the unexplored studies. At the end it lists 11 studies that should be required “to assess known serious risks of
myocarditis and pericarditis and identify an unexpected serious risk of subclinical
myocarditis…[and] the pharmacovigilance system that FDA is required to
maintain…
https://www.rwmalonemd.com/s/Key-points-to-consider-FDA-letters-and-press-release.pdf
Assumingthese figures are accurate, less virus recoveries outnumber virus deaths by well over 100 to one. Those in “serious condition” are less than 1 per cent of cases. This is a scamdemic or panicdemic, not a pandemic.