From J C<\/p>\n
In a grotesquely transparent effort to help sell more jabs, WebMD published a ridiculous story this week headlined, \u201cHave Long COVID? Newest Booster Vaccines May Help You.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a gold rush on; a race by totally neutral, unbiased scientists to help pharma sell jabs by publishing \u201cscientific studies\u201d showing that, like miracle cures of old, mRNA snake oil might not stop you catching the disease but it can fix up your long covid. Probably. Maybe. Well, you never know.<\/p>\n
WebMD quoted \u201cdoctor\u201d Stephen J. Thomas, MD, described as an infectious disease specialist at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and \u2014 get this \u2014 as the center\u2019s lead principal investigator for Pfizer\u2019s original, deeply-flawed vaccine trials. Dr. Thomas explained \u201cThe theory is that by boosting, the immune system may be able to \u2018mop up\u2019 those virus stragglers that have remained behind after your first cleanup attempt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Thomas didn\u2019t suggest any specific scientific mechanism for how the lipid nanoparticles and mRNA could help \u201cmop up\u201d any \u201cleft behind\u201d covid virus. He might have said that boosters can teach the body how to make antibodies to new variants, but that doesn\u2019t help him explain how it could treat \u201clong covid,\u201d which is supposedly a remnant of an earlier infection.<\/p>\n
Long covid has been reported by many folks and the list of symptoms continues growing, clocking in at well over 200 discrete symptoms a few months ago when I last surveyed the burgeoning literature. It\u2019s worth noting that most viral infections, including influenza, have accumulated \u201clong\u201d forms, with some small number of infected folks demonstrating lasting injuries.<\/p>\n
Oddly, it\u2019s never before been argued that influenza vaccines can cure long flu.<\/p>\n
Anyway, not least because of the syndrome\u2019s poor definition, the long covid literature is \u2026 controversial. At best. For instance, Retraction Watch posted an article this month titled, \u201cBuzzy Lancet Long COVID Paper Under Investigation for \u2018Data Errors\u2019\u201d.\u00b9<\/p>\n
One of the most influential long covid papers, a Lancet study titled \u201c6-month consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a cohort study,\u201d has been cited nearly 1,600 times. But the Lancet filed an \u201cexpression of concern\u201d last month after a reader noticed inconsistencies between the data in the study and a later paper by the same authors. When the Lancet contacted the authors, they admitted a mistake in the original data.<\/p>\n
Whoops. The long covid situation is, as they say, fluid.<\/p>\n
Ironically, WebMD began its article with a dose of vaccine skepticism. The magazine reported that writer Jackie Dishner, 58, hasn\u2019t been the same since June 2020, when covid robbed her of her energy level, ability to think clearly, and sense of taste and smell. But Jackie is in no hurry to get the latest vaccine booster. \u201cI just don\u2019t want to risk getting any sicker,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
Sounds wise, especially when you consider the next part.<\/p>\n
So far, Jackie has had the two original doses of the vaccine plus two more boosters \u2014 totaling four injections of spike protein mRNA. And she STILL feels terrible, she just can\u2019t shake it, no matter what she tries.<\/p>\n
For SOME mysterious, baffling reason.<\/p>\n
Incredibly, WebMD tried to turn Jackie\u2019s 4-jab case into an argument FOR boosters. The medical magazine quoted Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist and \u201cprolific long covid researcher\u201d at Washington University in St. Louis. Without examining her, Dr. Al-Aly told Jackie, and I am not making this up, \u201cA bivalent booster might actually [help with] your long covid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hahahahahahahaha!<\/p>\n
No examination. No interview. No patient history. But Dr. Al-Aly, if that\u2019s his real name, still confidently \u2014 and publicly \u2014 opined that the bivalent booster \u201cmight\u201d help Jackie\u2019s long covid \u2014 a baffling syndrome defying easy explanation. But, it \u201cmight\u201d help. You never know.<\/p>\n
Folks, this is what passes for \u201cscience\u201d these days.<\/p>\n
Next, WebMD cited a recent meta-review published in the Lancet\u2019s e-Clinical Medicine. An international team of researchers looked at 11 studies on whether vaccines affect long covid symptoms. Generally speaking, seven studies found that symptoms improved after vaccination, four studies found that symptoms stayed the same, and one study found that symptoms worsened.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 7 to 4 to 1. Hence, vaccination \u201cmight\u201d help. Or, it might not. Or, it might make your long covid worse. So take it, dummy! Don\u2019t walk, RUN down to the pharmacy and get your new, improved, double-loaded bivalent booster. Science!!<\/p>\n
Dr. Al-Aly is baffled about what could be causing all these people to keel over in the middle of live broadcasts and soccer games, but Dr. Aly-whatever is absolutely 100% sure that a booster \u201cmight\u201d help Jackie\u2019s long covid, so he is 100% absolutely sure Jackie should take her FIFTH COVID SHOT as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Jackie sounds like she might have learned her lesson though.<\/p>\n
Dr. Al-Aly asked, why not take the booster, since there\u2019s little evidence vaccines can make long covid worse. He dismissed examples where boosters made people\u2019s long covid worse, while admitting \u201cThere are some reports out there that some people with long covid, when they got a vaccine or booster, their symptoms got worse. You\u2019ll read anecdotes on this side.\u201d But he said efforts to prove that boosters worsen long covid have been \u201cinconclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n
I bet they have. That wouldn\u2019t be good for business.<\/p>\n
This has got to be the dumbest, most obvious vaccine advertisement dressed in scientific jargon that I have ever seen. In the three full pages of the story \u2014 listen to this \u2014 they didn\u2019t quote ONE SINGLE PERSON who claimed their long covid was cured by a booster. Not one! The best anecdote they could come up with was quadruple-jabbed Jackie, who said, no thanks.<\/p>\n
This s science. What can I tell you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From J C In a grotesquely transparent effort to help sell more jabs, WebMD published a ridiculous story this week headlined, \u201cHave Long COVID? Newest Booster Vaccines May Help You.\u201d There\u2019s a gold rush on; a race by totally neutral, … Continue reading