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It may be helpful in understanding covid-19 in children to stratify data based on age, vaccination status, and dates of childhood vaccinations. Data on children who avoided covid-19, and those who developed mild covid-19, severe covid-19, long covid-19, or misc-C, based on age, vaccination status, and dates of childhood vaccinations, may provide evidence childhood vaccinations, the number of years since the most recent vaccinations, and particular childhood vaccinations impact immunity, the outcome, and the prognosis of covid-19 in children.
We are not alone in our concern for the development of future chronic diseases, in covid-19 patients. Our perspective is the person’s underlying chronic intracellular infections, and the length of time the infection has persisted and spread in the body, can impact the effect of acute covid19. The vaccine hesitant may fear getting covid19 vaccinations, but their fear of the vaccine should pale in comparison to the fear of developing a chronic disease and/or mental illness; and/or a shortened life…..
We have been concerned about the impact of covid19 in patients with underlying chronic infections, particularly chlamydia psittacosis (also other forms of chlamydia, chronic streptococcus, and toxoplasmosis). Common sense suggests the rate of psittacosis in the population is much higher than reported, considering the prevalence of psittacosis in birds worldwide; the correlation between bird populations, bird migratory routes, and chronic diseases; the number and rate of chronic diseases known to be caused by psittacosis; and the lack of awareness. …..
Getting vaccinated against covid19 protects the person, family, community and society. However, vaccine hesitancy has caused low vaccination rates in some parts of the country and a pandemic among the unvaccinated. Publicly available information on the safety and protection provided by the vaccination has not convinced many who remain vaccine hesitant. Another issue to consider is—we do not know the long term impact of covid, in 20-30 years. Will the acute illness resolve, without further impact? Or, will it…..
IL-6 has been found to be a significant marker for severe disease and death from covid19. Chlamydia organisms have been shown to induce production of IL-6, and high IL-6 has been found in cardiovascular disease and many other chronic diseases. We discussed IL-6 as a marker for several chronic diseases in “The Origin of Disease: The War Within” (including heart disease, depression, aging, “inflammatory diseases”, mortality, etc.). We also discussed how co-infections with chronic chlamydia and viruses can cause more…..
Four chronic diseases account for 63% of severe disease from covid19. Obesity—Diabetes—Hypertension—Heart failure. The report makes sense based on the underlying intracellular pathogens and parasites that cause each of these four diseases. Intracellular pathogens and debris from these pathogens can cohabit intracellularly with viruses, in endothelium, epithelium and stroma. Intracellular pathogens and parasites can also provide a host for a virus. When a pathogen is inside a cell or parasite it is difficult for the immune system to reach…..
The immune system has difficulty fighting intracellular pathogens; and in response to intracellular pathogens and the abnormal proteins generated by the pathogens, the immune system generates a cascade of immune defenses, i.e. the war within, which include a high level of inflammation and generation of adhesion molecules. The immune system attack may be diagnosed as a chronic disease; an autoimmune disease; or in acute disease, as the immune system generating a higher level of damaging inflammation, for unknown reasons. …..
Viruses can only survive and multiply inside a cell or pathogen. Viruses can invade human cells previously infected with intracellular bacteria, and can also invade and become a bacteriophage of other bacterial pathogens. Chronic intracellular infections cause chronic disease. When patients with chronic disease develop covid19 the risk for severe disease and virus variants increases. Intracellular co-infections can confuse the immune system; hide the virus; and trigger an increased inflammatory response, to fight a virus inside a bacteria inside a…..
Viruses are a string of proteins encapsulated by a membrane, which become intracellular to duplicate and spread. Inside the cell the virus loses its outer membrane, and duplicates the string of viral proteins with a new outer membrane. When viruses enter cells previously infected with intracellular bacteria, the virus can evolve into new variants due to the mixing of co-infections or due to diminished cell function caused by a chronic intracellular infection. The variation in underlying chronic intracellular infections in…..
Others are now advocating the repurposing of drugs we already have for covid19, while we wait for new antiviral drugs and covid19 vaccines. We previously reported azithromax has both antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity, and can prevent blood clots and heart attacks from a viral infection; and that imervectin may be beneficial in covid19, based on laboratory studies. The NIH has now withdrawn its objection to imervectin for covid19, and takes no position on its use for covid19. We already have…..
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