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 .
I just don’t understand (rhetorical) the rush and the double standards. Ivermectin is being asked to be supported by the highest quality RCTs which we have plenty of but one study, or none at all, from the manufacturer of these vaccines and we’re good to go — “fully” approved!
Why Kids’ Immune Systems Can Handle COVID, and How Vaccines Could Compromise Their Natural Immune Response... Given the almost “zero” risk COVID poses to children, and based on the scientific evidence, epidemiologist and researcher Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D. says we “are playing a dangerous game and are weakening formerly healthy robust immune systems.” via Children's Health Defense...
2/2 There are other important nutrients including magnesium, zinc, vitamin C, and B vitamins.
Two further very important factors affect the risk of a person suffering severe COVID-19, KD, MIS-C etc. These are even less known than low vitamin D levels, and are less amenable to corrective action. However, they should be recognised because they constitute the hidden risk factors, which in addition to low vitamin D, drive most of the total risk. Please see the research articles cited at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/ .
Helminths (and some other types of multicelllar parasites) normally infest all (or almost all - it would be rare to find an exception) humans, as they do for all mammals. They long ago (this would be tens of million of years ago) developed compounds, which they exude, which downmodulate the host's inflammatory immune responses. The reason is obvious - inflammatory immune responses are the primary or sole way the body has of killing helminths. There are an unknown number of these compounds, but one has been identified, patented, synthesised and is being tested in non-human animals. (See the 06-adv page.)
The response of our ancestors - and this goes back into mammals in general, not just primates or humans - has been to evolve overly strong inflammatory responses. Now most humans have no helminths (they are generally pernicious and there are good reasons not be infected by them), we are left with a general tendency for our inflammatory immune responses to be self-destructively overly-strong. This general tendency is subject to a great deal of individual genetic variation, so some people have a life-altering problem with this and some people have little or no trouble.
Low vitamin D makes this much worse - see McGregor at al. cited in the 05-mds page. Low vitamin D makes it much more likely for Th1 regulatory lymphocytes to be stuck permanently in their pro-inflammatory startup program, never transitioning to their anti-inflammatory shutdown program. This occurs in the Th1 cells McGregor et al, retrieved from the lungs of hospitalised COVID-19 patients - due solely to insufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
Helminth infection was recently shown to reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 by 77%. See the helminth section of the 06-adv page.
We can't use helminths to treat acute diseases like KD, MIS-C, sepsis or severe COVID-19 - it would take too long for them to multiply and exude their compounds. However, helminthic therapy is used to treat numerous chronic auto-immune (inflammatory) conditions: https://helminthictherapywiki.org .
Ideally we would have one or more of these helminthic compounds to use as anti-inflammatory drugs. They presumably downmodulate inflammation only, since the heliminth's survival depends on its host being able to fight viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens.
People who have genetic make-ups which predispose them to particularly high levels of self-destructive inflammatory responses suffer a whole range of diseases, including Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma etc. etc. Obesity is partly driven by lack of helminths - search Google Scholar for obesity helminths.
Obesity lowers 25OHD levels and is in part caused by these low levels. Obesity is an inflammatory disorder and is a very high risk factor for sepsis and severe COVID-19 - and, as far as I know, KD and MIS-C. https://aminotheory.com/cv19/obesity/ Obesity is easy to spot. Almost everyone needs vitamin D3 supplementation and those suffering from obesity need it more than most, as a higher ratio of bodyweight: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/01-supp/ due to fat absorbing 25OHD.
People, including children, with dark skin and/or sun-avoidant lifestyles/clothing need D3 supplementation - especially if they live far from the equator and especially in winter.
People -including children - who are "immune compromised" are well known to be at high risk of severe COVID-19. Vaccination is of limited help since they don't develop very strong immune responses to this artificial stimulation. Most of these people are on drugs which are intended to dampen their inflammatory immune responses. So these people are generally those who had the misfortune to have genes which give them especially strong inflammatory immune responses in the absence of helminths.
Very few doctors recognise that the first thing these people should do is supplement D3 to attain at least 50ng/ml. The second thing they should do is take more D3 (and other suitable nutrients, including potentially vitamin K2 to improve calcium regulation) than most people need to attain much higher 25OHD than 50ng/ml. Many (most) people who do this (and it should be medically supervised to ensure no calcium imbalances occur) find a significant reduction in their symptoms - psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis etc. Please see the Coimbra and other protocols at the 06-adv page.
Ideally these people would also take helminthic compounds - but none are yet available.
The way most of these people are treated is all wrong. They are put on a variety of cheap, generic, or expensive, patented, drugs with the intention of dampening down their inflammatory immune responses. This involves all sorts of costs and ill-effects. They should at least use the Coimbra protocol first and then use drugs if that does not work.
Instead, common drugs like prednisolone and dexamethasone (and I guess all the other fancier ones) not only weaken inflammatory responses, they weaken innate and adaptive responses to viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens.
So they lack vitamin D, they are prone to hyper inflammation, and their medical treatment further weakens the immune responses which directly defend them against viral infections. No wonder they suffer, are harmed and are killed much more than other people. Their inappropriate drug treatment surely contributes strongly to this.
This is a long series of comments. One day I will write a better version as a Substack articles, but my current articles and websites cover most of the above points already.
It can be seen that some children are more at risk of severe harm from COVID-19 - those with dark skin or any other reason for being low in vitamin D, those who suffer from obesity or autoimmune inflammatory disorders. This especially includes children who are (mis)treated with immunosuppressant drugs.
The question is how to impart all the above to the majority of physicians and immunologists, who are highly resistant to learning new information which challenges their current understanding of disease and treatment.
Mathew: completely off-topic, but given you are an educator and stats / maths guy: do you have a book you would recommend for self-learning about markov models?
I'm amazed that "SARS-CoV-2-infection-induced X" in children rates have been as rare as they turned out to be. Not because SC2 is so dangerous, but because it was clear from the very beginning that we were launching a prolonged campaign of psychological torture on children, and that any immune dysfunction created by that torture was going to be used to justify extending the campaign of torture.
I expected the fallout to arrive much sooner than it has. It seems like there was a bit of a registering of the toll happening since the summer, even discounting for the media spin - but I'm also worried that Covid-vaccinated family members are "shedding" spike and priming their children for inflammatory responses during later viral challenge.
I know med-school is indoctrination, but it's still pathetic that doctors can't arrive to a coherent understanding of risk via their own work experience. The immune system has a "menu of hazard" which is partially internal and external. This menu cannot be taken away, only redefined. Negative outcomes are a result of the (in)competence of the system (here is where the hygiene hypothesis shines). Removing one virus from the world with a finger-snap (or vaccine) only puts the next virus higher up on the menu. Even with the likely huge detriment to the immune system competence of children by 19 months of isolation and stress, there is no possible net benefit to "shielding" them from SARS-CoV-2. They are going to pay the toll one way or another, unless we tackle the damage we've done directly - get them back outside, playing in mud like they should be.
Mathew: Would it be within your statistical powers to (quickly and easily) calculate the likelihood, based on CDC reported numbers, population statistics, and perhaps more granular demographic statistics, that any one person in the US would actually know first-hand someone who has either tested positive of SARS-CoV-2, been hospitalized, or died? Reason is that of my entire family, we know of only three people who have had it (a mid-aged couple in March 2020, one 85-yr-old friend in ~June 2021), zero who've been hospitalized, and zero who died. We know of one first (and only) shot injury. So based on the ba-gillion people reported to have been in the hospital or died, would us not knowing any be statistically impossible (or something like that)? What are the degrees of separation with all this? Shouldn't we all know someone by now? Wish I had the powers to calculate this myself. Thanks!
I'd add to your bullet points, deaths misattributed to COVID. As Dr. Birx said "We've taken a very liberal approach to mortality" https://youtu.be/0OF51RKFh1g
All the talk of GoF and lab leaks aside, with complete capture of the media, the government, and the medical/testing industry, they could just as easily achieved what they aimed to achieve with or without a real virus.
Even a very cursory examination of the UK mortality data puts 96-97% of all deaths in the 50+ ages. Moreover, the 50-59 age group (which has the lowest mortality of the older groups) has more mortality by 50% than all the younger groups put together.
I recently found their cumulative mortality chart (which I can't get to match up to their Weekly report) and it shows 2221 deaths below 50 and 4118 in the 50-59 group. But from there it MORE THAN DOUBLES each age group you go up. 4118->9026->18695->47198. That puts mortality over 50 at over 97% of all COVID mortality (and that is with any reductions from vaccination since the majority of those deaths are fully vaccinated - in week 43. 78.8% of mortality was fully vaccinated.)
Some excellent commentary buried in some dubious claims:
"As readers here know, I almost never write an article without full citations for each claim." - Pat both shoulders equally so you don't bury yourself.
Too much condascension against a linked video.
Sober up when you make articles. Kirsch and JLW are actually bad role models. You were writing way better stuff before you took yourself too seriously.
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 .
I just don’t understand (rhetorical) the rush and the double standards. Ivermectin is being asked to be supported by the highest quality RCTs which we have plenty of but one study, or none at all, from the manufacturer of these vaccines and we’re good to go — “fully” approved!
Why Kids’ Immune Systems Can Handle COVID, and How Vaccines Could Compromise Their Natural Immune Response... Given the almost “zero” risk COVID poses to children, and based on the scientific evidence, epidemiologist and researcher Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D. says we “are playing a dangerous game and are weakening formerly healthy robust immune systems.” via Children's Health Defense...
So how do you think teachers and administrators will react to students wearing t-shirts which say:
How many children are you willing to sacrifice to save one adult?
2/2 There are other important nutrients including magnesium, zinc, vitamin C, and B vitamins.
Two further very important factors affect the risk of a person suffering severe COVID-19, KD, MIS-C etc. These are even less known than low vitamin D levels, and are less amenable to corrective action. However, they should be recognised because they constitute the hidden risk factors, which in addition to low vitamin D, drive most of the total risk. Please see the research articles cited at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/ .
Helminths (and some other types of multicelllar parasites) normally infest all (or almost all - it would be rare to find an exception) humans, as they do for all mammals. They long ago (this would be tens of million of years ago) developed compounds, which they exude, which downmodulate the host's inflammatory immune responses. The reason is obvious - inflammatory immune responses are the primary or sole way the body has of killing helminths. There are an unknown number of these compounds, but one has been identified, patented, synthesised and is being tested in non-human animals. (See the 06-adv page.)
The response of our ancestors - and this goes back into mammals in general, not just primates or humans - has been to evolve overly strong inflammatory responses. Now most humans have no helminths (they are generally pernicious and there are good reasons not be infected by them), we are left with a general tendency for our inflammatory immune responses to be self-destructively overly-strong. This general tendency is subject to a great deal of individual genetic variation, so some people have a life-altering problem with this and some people have little or no trouble.
Low vitamin D makes this much worse - see McGregor at al. cited in the 05-mds page. Low vitamin D makes it much more likely for Th1 regulatory lymphocytes to be stuck permanently in their pro-inflammatory startup program, never transitioning to their anti-inflammatory shutdown program. This occurs in the Th1 cells McGregor et al, retrieved from the lungs of hospitalised COVID-19 patients - due solely to insufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
Helminth infection was recently shown to reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 by 77%. See the helminth section of the 06-adv page.
We can't use helminths to treat acute diseases like KD, MIS-C, sepsis or severe COVID-19 - it would take too long for them to multiply and exude their compounds. However, helminthic therapy is used to treat numerous chronic auto-immune (inflammatory) conditions: https://helminthictherapywiki.org .
Ideally we would have one or more of these helminthic compounds to use as anti-inflammatory drugs. They presumably downmodulate inflammation only, since the heliminth's survival depends on its host being able to fight viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens.
People who have genetic make-ups which predispose them to particularly high levels of self-destructive inflammatory responses suffer a whole range of diseases, including Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma etc. etc. Obesity is partly driven by lack of helminths - search Google Scholar for obesity helminths.
Obesity lowers 25OHD levels and is in part caused by these low levels. Obesity is an inflammatory disorder and is a very high risk factor for sepsis and severe COVID-19 - and, as far as I know, KD and MIS-C. https://aminotheory.com/cv19/obesity/ Obesity is easy to spot. Almost everyone needs vitamin D3 supplementation and those suffering from obesity need it more than most, as a higher ratio of bodyweight: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/01-supp/ due to fat absorbing 25OHD.
People, including children, with dark skin and/or sun-avoidant lifestyles/clothing need D3 supplementation - especially if they live far from the equator and especially in winter.
People -including children - who are "immune compromised" are well known to be at high risk of severe COVID-19. Vaccination is of limited help since they don't develop very strong immune responses to this artificial stimulation. Most of these people are on drugs which are intended to dampen their inflammatory immune responses. So these people are generally those who had the misfortune to have genes which give them especially strong inflammatory immune responses in the absence of helminths.
Very few doctors recognise that the first thing these people should do is supplement D3 to attain at least 50ng/ml. The second thing they should do is take more D3 (and other suitable nutrients, including potentially vitamin K2 to improve calcium regulation) than most people need to attain much higher 25OHD than 50ng/ml. Many (most) people who do this (and it should be medically supervised to ensure no calcium imbalances occur) find a significant reduction in their symptoms - psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis etc. Please see the Coimbra and other protocols at the 06-adv page.
Ideally these people would also take helminthic compounds - but none are yet available.
The way most of these people are treated is all wrong. They are put on a variety of cheap, generic, or expensive, patented, drugs with the intention of dampening down their inflammatory immune responses. This involves all sorts of costs and ill-effects. They should at least use the Coimbra protocol first and then use drugs if that does not work.
Instead, common drugs like prednisolone and dexamethasone (and I guess all the other fancier ones) not only weaken inflammatory responses, they weaken innate and adaptive responses to viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens.
So they lack vitamin D, they are prone to hyper inflammation, and their medical treatment further weakens the immune responses which directly defend them against viral infections. No wonder they suffer, are harmed and are killed much more than other people. Their inappropriate drug treatment surely contributes strongly to this.
This is a long series of comments. One day I will write a better version as a Substack articles, but my current articles and websites cover most of the above points already.
It can be seen that some children are more at risk of severe harm from COVID-19 - those with dark skin or any other reason for being low in vitamin D, those who suffer from obesity or autoimmune inflammatory disorders. This especially includes children who are (mis)treated with immunosuppressant drugs.
The question is how to impart all the above to the majority of physicians and immunologists, who are highly resistant to learning new information which challenges their current understanding of disease and treatment.
Mathew: completely off-topic, but given you are an educator and stats / maths guy: do you have a book you would recommend for self-learning about markov models?
I'm amazed that "SARS-CoV-2-infection-induced X" in children rates have been as rare as they turned out to be. Not because SC2 is so dangerous, but because it was clear from the very beginning that we were launching a prolonged campaign of psychological torture on children, and that any immune dysfunction created by that torture was going to be used to justify extending the campaign of torture.
I expected the fallout to arrive much sooner than it has. It seems like there was a bit of a registering of the toll happening since the summer, even discounting for the media spin - but I'm also worried that Covid-vaccinated family members are "shedding" spike and priming their children for inflammatory responses during later viral challenge.
I know med-school is indoctrination, but it's still pathetic that doctors can't arrive to a coherent understanding of risk via their own work experience. The immune system has a "menu of hazard" which is partially internal and external. This menu cannot be taken away, only redefined. Negative outcomes are a result of the (in)competence of the system (here is where the hygiene hypothesis shines). Removing one virus from the world with a finger-snap (or vaccine) only puts the next virus higher up on the menu. Even with the likely huge detriment to the immune system competence of children by 19 months of isolation and stress, there is no possible net benefit to "shielding" them from SARS-CoV-2. They are going to pay the toll one way or another, unless we tackle the damage we've done directly - get them back outside, playing in mud like they should be.
Mathew: Would it be within your statistical powers to (quickly and easily) calculate the likelihood, based on CDC reported numbers, population statistics, and perhaps more granular demographic statistics, that any one person in the US would actually know first-hand someone who has either tested positive of SARS-CoV-2, been hospitalized, or died? Reason is that of my entire family, we know of only three people who have had it (a mid-aged couple in March 2020, one 85-yr-old friend in ~June 2021), zero who've been hospitalized, and zero who died. We know of one first (and only) shot injury. So based on the ba-gillion people reported to have been in the hospital or died, would us not knowing any be statistically impossible (or something like that)? What are the degrees of separation with all this? Shouldn't we all know someone by now? Wish I had the powers to calculate this myself. Thanks!
I'd add to your bullet points, deaths misattributed to COVID. As Dr. Birx said "We've taken a very liberal approach to mortality" https://youtu.be/0OF51RKFh1g
And the midazolam murders https://theexpose.uk/2021/06/13/stay-at-home-protect-the-nhs-give-midazolam-to-the-elderly-and-tell-you-they-are-covid-deaths/
Not to be insensitive, but the only children to have died "of" COVID are of a similar cohort to 13 year old Porter Helm- https://thecovidblog.com/2021/09/08/oscar-de-la-hoya-former-boxing-champion-latest-fully-vaccinated-athlete-to-miss-events-blame-covid-19-for-being-hospitalized/
In my opinion, isolation remains an open question. To date, not one FOIA request has succeeded in anyone, anywhere acknowledging virus isolation. https://truthcomestolight.com/the-non-existent-virus-an-explosive-interview-with-christine-massey/
All the talk of GoF and lab leaks aside, with complete capture of the media, the government, and the medical/testing industry, they could just as easily achieved what they aimed to achieve with or without a real virus.
Given the parents who want to vaccinate their children vs those who won't, this is eugenics on a global scale yes?
Even a very cursory examination of the UK mortality data puts 96-97% of all deaths in the 50+ ages. Moreover, the 50-59 age group (which has the lowest mortality of the older groups) has more mortality by 50% than all the younger groups put together.
I recently found their cumulative mortality chart (which I can't get to match up to their Weekly report) and it shows 2221 deaths below 50 and 4118 in the 50-59 group. But from there it MORE THAN DOUBLES each age group you go up. 4118->9026->18695->47198. That puts mortality over 50 at over 97% of all COVID mortality (and that is with any reductions from vaccination since the majority of those deaths are fully vaccinated - in week 43. 78.8% of mortality was fully vaccinated.)
Some excellent commentary buried in some dubious claims:
"As readers here know, I almost never write an article without full citations for each claim." - Pat both shoulders equally so you don't bury yourself.
Too much condascension against a linked video.
Sober up when you make articles. Kirsch and JLW are actually bad role models. You were writing way better stuff before you took yourself too seriously.