Challenging the Narrative on COVID-19 Deaths Amongst Children
Challenging the Narrative on COVID-19 Deaths Amongst Children
The Chloroquine Wars Part LXXXIV
"First you make people believe they have a problem, and then you sell them the solution." -Oliver Markus Malloy
As readers here know, I almost never write an article without full citations for each claim. But I want to go ahead and make a statement, so forgive my time constraints. I may come back and edit this article with links to my own article or articles by others later, and will note edits at those times. But some of the claims will be uncontroversial.
During the pandemic, the vast majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths have been among the elderly.
The vast majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths have been among those deficient in key nutrients, including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and zinc.
The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths (maybe 80%) have been among those with autoimmune disorders, including those not previously documented and those simply associated with advanced aging. (This is the "hidden comorbidity" the health industry doesn't seem to want to talk about.)
94% of COVID-19 deaths occurred among people with comorbidities such as obesity or diabetes.
I strongly suspect that the number of children who have died due to COVID-19 (not simply "with" it), who fit none of the risk parameters above (and most children don't), can be counted on one hand. In fact, if somebody makes a claim of such cases to you, and can provide cases or data, please ask them to link to that data here. I and my research group will document it all. But I don't believe many of these cases exist.
Here, Dr. Tom Hong, a pro-vaccine doctor, talks through his own reservations about vaccinating children, and the data analysis that came down from the FDA. He's right---it's untrustworthy garbage.
Dr. Hong is not a statistician, but he has some instincts that conflict with what he sees with his own eyes. And he does some basic math, but he does not know how to fully work with the conditionals (Bayes Theorem), such as comorbidities, and treats them as independent (to whether the hospitalization is due to COVID-19). And that's fine---he is doing as good a job as he can with the tools at hand, and his first order estimate is a reasonable starting point for framing the problem. His effort and sharing are praiseworthy.
My honest guess is that once we examine associations between the four risk factors I began this article with, we will find a Venn diagram of essentially complete exclusion of the vast majority of children. And any competent biostatistician or actuary knows this.
Any supposed risk-benefit analysis that does not distinguish healthy children from the small proportion of high risk children who make up nearly all severe COVID-19 cases among children is a dangerous fraud. It does not take a genius to understand that desegregating those data pools results in making the benefits of vaccination among the healthy groups appear to be orders of magnitude greater than it is.
If we pay vaccine manufacturers and their chain of interested parties ($35 x 2 x 28M = $1.96B) to vaccinate 28 million children, of whom 20 million fall into a healthier group that expects to see maybe 1 death (in total, not per million) from COVID-19 over the course of a year, then to save one death, we
Spent $1.4 billion (on the 20 M kids),
Kill some number of them quickly (hard to say how many since, as FDA Chief Janet Woodcock put it, "That would require a study."),
Caused over 100,000 serious adverse events, including thousands of cases of myocarditis that could lead to thousands of children not to live beyond their teenage years,
Run a mass fertility experiment on a whole generation of American children,
Told the Lysenkoist medical industry that we will bend over for their anal swabs until the end of time, and pay for it with our taxes (or through inflation).
Along with a dozen others, most of whom are medical doctors I, too, have cskcyjated that mass vaccination of the nations children will save no child’s life but will kill possibly hundreds (on top of which cause thousands to have serious, but non fatal, adverse events, some of which will be life changing.
This by a combination of reading the public data & medical literature.
Any such policy which can only lead to suffering & death of children while saving no lives comes from the minds of psychopaths.
If not sectioned & placed in secure facilities (in short, prison for dangerously mad people) the perpetrators need rounding up & placed out of the reach of the general public, pending their criminal prosecutions.
If any conducted their part in territories with capital punishment for the worst murders, these qualify.
This is murder 1. Anyone involved in the decisions who isn’t aware of the inevitable outcomes is lying to themselves. A defence of being utterly incompetent isn’t credible,
If their defence is that they have been threatened, that’s possibly mitigation. But it wouldn’t be sufficient to get them off.
1/2 Here is my attempt to describe the risk factors for children being harmed or killed by COVID-19.
Kawasaki disease is an extreme hyper-inflammatory immune dysregulation disorder, known for decades, in which children suffer lasting harm (including coronary artery aneurysms) and death. It can be triggered by a variety of bacterial and viral diseases - and sometimes no triggering condition is known.
Inflammation is the destruction of cells - including the body's own cells - by a variety of immune system mechanisms, including the activation of eosinophils, which are the immune system's suicide bombers. The contain a variety of cell-destroying chemicals, which are released when the eosinophil is activated - it disintegrates and the chemicals destroy nearby cells.
Inflammatory immune responses are different from the various innate and adaptive (antibodies and mechanisms to destroy whatever antibodies attach themselves to) immune responses. These are deployed against viruses and single cell pathogens: bacteria, yeast and fungi. Inflammatory responses are primarily deployed against multicellular pathogens, such as helminths (intestinal worms), where a much more destructive approach than dealing with single cells is required. This indiscriminate killing of cells is also likely to kill our own healthy cells.
The etiology of Kawasaki disease is officially unknown. It is primarily a vasculitis - a disorder which harms blood vessels. Children are treated with anti-inflammatory drugs (which also reduce innate and adaptive responses) such as prednisolone and with other drugs concerned with blood pressure.
It is a medical scandal and tragedy of the highest order that very few pediatricians who treat this potentially deadly disease are aware of Stagi et al. 2015 who reported that KD children have very low 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD, as measured in vitamin D blood tests) levels: "Severe vitamin D deficiency in patients with Kawasaki disease: a potential role in the risk to develop heart vascular abnormalities?" https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s10067-015-2970-6 .
The patients were 21 girls and 58 boys, average age 5.8 years. Their average 25OHD levels were 9.2ng/ml, while age-matched controls averaged 23.3ng/ml. In the patients who developed coronary artery abnormalities, the average 25OHD level was 4.9ng/ml. This is 1/10th of the 25OHD the immune system needs, as you can see from the Quraishi et al. 2014 graph which is one of the research articles I cite at: "What every MD, immunologist, virologist and epidemiologist should know about vitamin D and the immune system" https://vitamindstopscovid.info/05-mds/ . Please refer to those article so you have a reasonably complete understanding of the immune system's need for at least 50ng/ml circulating 25OHD, which is about 2 to 10 times what most people have without proper vitamin D3 supplementation or high levels of UV-B skin exposure in the last month or two.
All the evidence is that these children would make a very rapid recovery - hours to a day, not days to weeks - if their 25OHD was rapidly boosted to over 50ng/ml. The best way of doing this is a single oral dose of 0.014mg calcifediol per kg bodyweight. "Calcifediol" is the name for 25-hydroxyvitamin D as a pharmaceutical. Please see all about this, including the link to Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa's recommendation of this, at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/04-calcifediol/ .
Everything I just mentioned about KD is true of sepsis, except that sepsis occurs in people of all ages, and the inflammatory attack is very broad so it attacks all tissues and organs, not primarily the vasculature. It can be triggered by viral and bacterial infection, or by extensive burns. Sepsis kills about 11 million people a year - and that was before COVID. (I am not giving all references, in an attempt to be brief.)
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (in children) is much the same as KD except KD is generally diagnosed for younger children, say 6 and younger, and MIS-C for older children, adolescents and young adults. MIS-C involves more broad-based inflammatory attacks and does not involve the "strawberry tongue" of KD.
Severe COVID-19, is much the same as these, but it usually starts with an inflammatory attack on the blood vessels in the lungs. This creates fluid which fills the alveoli (air sacs) an floods the lungs (pneumonia) causing hypoxia (reduced ability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide). Hopefully this is as bad as it gets. However, if frequently gets very much worse because the damaged (trillions of them destroyed) endothelial cells (which form the inner lining of blood vessels and capillaries (the tiny blood vessels where O2 and CO2 exchange takes place, with red blood cells just able to squeeze through) cause the whole bloodstream to become hyper-coagulative (a normally healthy response to plug whatever leaks have developed from the injury which presumably caused this damage). This goes way out of ordinary bounds, due to the pervasive destruction of the endothelium, and so there are micro-embolisms and larger clots all over the body - in the lungs, brain, spinal cord, heart, liver, kidneys . . . This - and the underlying hyper-inflammatory dysregulated immune responses, is what kills COVID-19 sufferers.
Severe COVID-19, KD, MIS-C and sepsis are all much the same process. Their differences are far less important than their commonalities. All involve dysregulated hyper-inflammatory immune attack on the body's own cells, triggered by something - such as a viral infection. The viral infection itself does not do the damage. KD and MIS-C children may have had mild COVID-19, or even been asymptomatic.
From all I have read, all lasting harm and death to children from COVID-19 is via KD/MIS-C. Very few (I don't know of any) treating doctors are aware of the urgent need to get these patients' 25OHD levels up from their typically dismal and disastrously low levels to at least 50ng/ml 125nmol/L. This includes even the FLCCC doctors, lead by Paul Marik, who erroneously believe that the immune cells need a higher level of the very low level, circulating, hormonal 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (calcitriol), which the
kidneys produce and maintain to regulate calcium-bone metabolism. This is a common misconception, due to many vitamin D researchers and MDs not understanding vitamin D based autocrine (within each cell) and paracrine (to nearby cells) signaling: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/02-autocrine/ .
The first and most important thing to know about the children who are likely to die or suffer lasting disability from COVID-19 is that they are very low in vitamin D. Virtually everyone who is not properly supplementing D3 is low in vitamin D (circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D). Not every person with low 25OHD will get severe COVID-19 and not everyone with 50ng/ml will avoid it. However, the correlations are extremely strong, and vitamin D deficiency is easy to prevent. In the medical emergency of COVID-19, sepsis etc. ordinary healthy daily D3 intakes (such as 0.125mg 5000IU/day for 70kg 154lb bodyweight) are far too slow - they raise the levels over several months. So treatment with calcifediol or bolus (loading dose) D3 is essential. If this was done for everyone newly diagnosed with COVID-19, and even if it was delayed until they need hospital treatment, very few people would die from COVID-19.
So this (in terms of severe disease, viral shedding, lasting harm and death) is not the pandemic of the unvaccinated - it is the pandemic of the vitamin D deficient and those who are not able to get early treatment.
Precious view physicians know the above. The task is to make them all aware of it. This is extraordinarily difficult, for a variety of reasons which I will explore in future articles at: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com .