Covid19 - Vitamin D May Help In Covid-19 Fight, Studies Show

15 Sept 2020| Tomorrow's Medicine, The Straits Times

Multiple studies suggest that having adequate amounts of vitamin D may play a role in helping people stave off or combat the coronavirus, although the jury is still out on whether the results are conclusive or why this is so.

Commonly known as the "sunshine vitamin", vitamin D, which is known for its immune-boosting function, is mainly made in the skin when it is exposed to the ultraviolet B rays of the sun. It can also be obtained from other sources such as eggs, liver and oily fish.

At least one overseas study has associated vitamin D deficiency with a higher risk of Covid-19.

Published in medical journal JAMA Network Open on Sept 3, the study observed 489 patients from the University of Chicago Medicine health system, about a third of whom had vitamin D deficiency.

Patients with vitamin D deficiency and who were not given treatment for it were 1.77 times more likely to test positive for Covid-19 than those who were not.

The study also noted that other research had found that Covid-19 was less prevalent in groups that had lower rates of vitamin D deficiency.

Lockdowns and other measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19 could also decrease exposure to the sun, the researchers pointed out.

They added: "The low costs of vitamin D and its general safety... support arguments for population-level supplementation, perhaps for targeting groups at high risk for vitamin D deficiency and/or Covid-19."

A similar call was made in medical journal The Lancet on Aug 3 by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Queen Mary University of London.

Citing several other studies on the subject, as well as vitamin D's ability to protect against other acute respiratory infections, the researchers called for more trials to investigate whether the vitamin could help reduce the severity of Covid-19.

They also suggested increasing efforts to ensure members of the public have sufficient vitamin D.

"There is a chance that (such efforts) might also reduce the impact of Covid-19 in populations where vitamin D deficiency is prevalent; there is nothing to lose from their implementation, and potentially much to gain," they wrote.

Closer to home, another study analysed 43 Covid-19 patients aged 50 and above at Singapore General Hospital.

Published in the science journal Nutrition last week, it found that treating such patients with a combination of vitamin D, magnesium and vitamin B12 was associated with a "significant reduction" in the number of those who went on to require oxygen support or admission to intensive care.

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Covid19 - Trying to make sense of Duke NUS Medical School report

A study conducted by the Duke-NUS Medical School has shown that inactivated virus vaccines such as Sinopharm and Sinovac may also work in preventing severe Covid.

This suggests that a combination of this type of vaccine with mRNA vaccines may work better than using only one type.

Sinovac and Sinopharm have been considered by some to not be as effective as mRNA vaccines since they induce a lower antibody response. However, the new study shows that Sinopharm and Sinovac trigger different T-cell responses in fighting Covid, The Straits Times reported on Monday (Nov 14).

With mRNA vaccines, a part of the coronavirus’ genetic code is injected into a person’s body. This activates the production of viral proteins, but not the whole virus, in order to train the immune system to attack.

On the other hand, Sinovac and Sinopharm, which are examples of inactivated vaccines, use dead viral particles in order to expose immune systems to the virus without the risk of serious disease.

mRNA vaccines, such as the ones from Pfizer and Moderna, induce T-cells, which target the coronavirus’ spike protein.

But inactivated vaccines cause a broader immune response against various proteins of the coronavirus.

Therefore, says Anthony Tanoto Tan, a senior research fellow with the Duke-NUS’ Emerging Infectious Diseases programme, vaccines such as Sinovac and Sinopharm may not be as effective in preventing infection, but they may be key in preventing serious diseases from developing. Dr Tan is the study’s senior co-author.

mRNA vaccines were shown to produce more antibodies compared to inactivated vaccines. But with new variants that successfully evade the antibody response, “This means that maybe we should stop thinking about preventing infection, and we should start thinking about (how) vaccines (can prevent) severe disease,” ST quotes Dr Tan as saying.

The above is reported in theindependent.sg.  I have highlighted some points in bold for discussion. The first two sentence suggested that because inactivated virus vaccines can prevent severe Covid therefore  combining it with mRNA vaccine would work better. I can't find the correlation why adding mRNA vaccine would make it better. How did he come to this finding? Also, would mRNA vaccine destroy the user's natural immune system? Personally I am very happy with Sinopharm and has yet to be infected. I would never touch mRNA vaccines after reading so many adverse reports and the high risk of destroying a person's own immune system. Thank you very much mRNA.

The second point is that inactivated virus vaccines treat the virus as a whole while mRNA vaccines only deal with the spike proteins. This in simple term is that inactivated virus vaccines will deal with all the different types of virus regardless of the number of spike proteins. This is more generic. In the case of mRNA vaccines, it is like dealing only with the spike proteins and not the virus, and dealing with each spike protein separately. So every spike protein that is different would render it useless. That speaks for the need for ever growing number of types of mRNA vaccines as the virus mutates all time to produce new spike proteins. In other words, the mRNA vaccine is obsolete every time a new mutation is discovered. Damn good for the pharmaceutical companies to make more and more new mRNA vaccines and more money.

mRNA vaccines produce more antibodies. This is expected as the messenger will make the body produce more and more spike proteins and the body responded by producing more and more antibodies. In the inactivated virus vaccines, the number of dead virus is finite and the body just need to produce a finite number of antibodies to get rid of the inactivated virus. Nothing more, nothing less. So, does the production of more antibodies means more effective? Don't really think so in these cases.

Next point, new variants would evade the antibody response. Of course, as the body was made to respond only to the specific spike protein and not new variant spike protein. This failure in mRNA vaccines in preventing infection should not simply be wished away and say better to think about how it can prevent severe disease. This is not tackling the purpose of the vaccine. A vaccine is to prevent infection. If it cannot prevent infection, it is not a vaccine. It cannot be labelled as vaccine. Period.

After all the hooha, I still think inactivated virus vaccines that treat the virus as a whole are a much better choice.

What do you think?

PS. Silly Australia and Japan are still using the ineffective mRNA vaccines and as expected, the infection rate is still exploding. Australia now has more than 100,000 daily cases, Japan more than 50,000 cases with South Korea closely behind. Why are these stupid govts trying to prove to stubbornly injecting their people with an ineffective vaccine that has been reported to have many adverse reactions including DNA alteration and destruction of natural immune system?

Ukraine - Zelensky playing a dangerous game using false flag

 

You see how the Ukrainians are playing a dangerous game of creating a false flag. They did that over the Bucha Massacre, were afraid of being exposed, conspired with Little Britain to disallow Russia to bring this up to the UN to investigate, and literally closed the case.

I would not, for one, think this is just a miss that goes haywire into Poland and killed two people. You can also see how dangerous Nato can be, barking in hysteria like rabid dogs, the moment they hear the news and threatening to invoke article 5 to confront Russia.

Why do I think the missile landing in Poland was done on purpose? Zelenskyy knows that the USA and Nato are wavering in their support for Ukraine in weapons supply and aid, knowing the EU is itself now more concern with their own problems and facing social unrest. Dragging Nato into the conflict will ensure the war does not end.

As it is now, Ukraine is not a member of Nato, but Poland is. So, an attack on Poland means an attack on Nato. Zelenskyy has been trying very hard to drag Nato directly into the conflict. This man has Jewish blood in his veins and wants his pound of flesh, whatever it takes, false flag or not.

The clear indication that the USA is getting tired of Zelenskyy making frivolous demands can be gleaned from Biden's response when he said that Russia could not have fired the missile that landed in Poland. Why did he say that, when normally they would add fuel to fire over such an incident pending an investigation?

Olaf Scholz had already been less interested in his support for Ukraine, perhaps knowing that the war started by the USA had done so much harm to the European economies. Zelenskyy called Scholz a liver sausage.

Anonymous 

Ukraine - Russia has a better approach in attacking from the air

 When Poland angrily announced that bombs were hitting inside its territory and 2 Poles were killed, the comical reaction from the NATO members was to point the finger at Russia. Everyone started to condemn Russia before finding out the truth. This time Biden was a bid more guarded, wait for the investigation.

Truly and surely, like the bombing of the gas pipelines, it was confirmed that Russia did not do it. It was the joker, Ukraine, that fired at incoming Russian drones, missed and the missiles landed inside Poland, killing the Poles. Now all the warmongering NATO gangsters have to shut up, leaving Poland to deal with Ukraine.

This incident opens a new option to Russia. From on, Russian should attack Ukraine from the North West, along the border of Poland. Knowing that the missed rate of anti aircraft and drone missiles is as high as 80%, 8 out of 10 missiles fired would miss and continue flying until they drop when out of fuel. If Russia would to launch the attacks from the North West, all the missed missiles would land in Poland. How sweet.

I think Putin would not miss this great opportunity to get Zelensky to fire into Poland. Great works, Zelensky. Time to test the patience of Poland. Secondly, if the missiles landed in Belarus, Belarus would have an axe to grind against Ukraine. Alternatively, the drones can fly from the South along the border of Moldova or Romania and you can expect where the missed missiles would land.

The war would take on an interesting dimension and Ukraine would have to be very very careful when firing at Russian drones or aircraft.

Another Trudeau Embarrassment

 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has deleted a tweet which endorsed a claim that Iranian authorities had issued death sentences to 15,000 Iranian protesters.

The removal comes after a number of journalists and human rights campaigners pointed out that the information in the post was untrue, despite being shared by a slew of celebrities, political commentators and government officials.

The post, which went viral on social media over the past couple of days, shows a woman holding an Iranian flag with the text: “Iran sentences 15,000 protesters to death – as a ‘hard lesson’ for all rebels.”

In the tweet, Trudeau stated that Canada denounces the “Iranian regimes’s barbaric decision” to impose the death penalty on the protesters.

According to Iranian state news outlets, three people (ya 3, ie half of 6) connected to the protests have so far been handed death sentences.

Anonymous 

PS. This twit boy PM simply ignore their genocide of native Red Indians in the millions. And the massacres of young Red Indian boys and girls in their schools and churches.