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"COVID is surging once again and, if you live in British Columbia, you probably
already know someone sick with fever, chills and a sore throat.
As of mid-August, about one in every 19 British Columbians were enduring an
infection, with or without symptoms.
Although the media routinely dismisses all COVID infections as an
inconsequential nuisance, that’s not what the science says. The virus remains
deadlier than the flu and repeated infections can radically change your health.
An important new
Nature study, for example, has now proven that the spike
protein of the virus can bind with a blood protein, fibrin, setting off a chain
of blood clots resulting in chronic inflammation and brain damage. Fibrin can
actually form a mesh impeding blood flow in arteries to multiple organs in the
body.
Repeated studies show in the bluntest terms that the initial acute infection is
only the tip of the iceberg. Even a mild bout of COVID can leave a legacy of
blood clots, heart failure, diabetes, decreased brain function (see sidebar),
long COVID (now affecting 400 million people worldwide) and immune damage that
increasingly makes people more vulnerable to a plethora of infectious diseases
and possibly cancers.
These problems can erupt three years after an infection and are especially
prevalent in patients who’ve been hospitalized by COVID.
Which is why physical therapist and COVID specialist Dr. David Putrino
emphasizes, “There is no such thing as a SARS-CoV-2 infection that does NOT
have prolonged consequences.”
And yet the estimated daily level of infection in Canada now hovers around the
highest points reached during the Omicron variant’s peaks in January 2022 and
October 2023.
That’s the finding of University of Toronto infectious disease expert Tara
Moriarty, whose team bases the latest COVID-19 Hazard Index on a combination of
wastewater data and modelling. In a discursive and highly valuable X posting
Moriarty adds “there’s not a fresh vaccine in sight.” In fact, they are weeks
away.
That means about one million infections are occurring every week and that this
“severe” level of infection translates like clockwork into more than 1,000
deaths per week from COVID-19 in Canada based on five-week average trends.
Ultimately these infections will result in more cases of long COVID in both
younger and older populations."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: September 5, 2024
http://https//www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-111460405
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
