OMICRON NEWS vs REALITY

Every day we see some pretty interesting headlines about COVID, the Pandemic and Omicron... What's clickbait, what's "puffing", what's real data and how can we tell the difference? In this program DrA will break down some recent stories and navigate through the facts, fiction and some interesting details. Hospitalization of children, FLURONA, severity of disease, case counts, vaccination effects and more! LINKS MENTIONED: Also see last three Omicron updates:    • OMICRON LATEST - Panic versus Reality      • OMICRON VARIANT - Why this may be the...      • YOU'VE GOT COVID... Now What?   Omicron mutations from mice??? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Great summary:    • Omicron from mice   Genome map shown: file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Omicron_SARS-CoV-2_radial_distance_tree_2021-Dec-01.svg Interview highlights with Dr. Bob Wachter (Wachter chairs the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco). https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavi... AP NEWS: US hospitals seeing different kind of COVID surge this time https://apnews.com/article/coronaviru... “WITH OR FROM COVID”??? (see:    • Most omicron hospitalisations incidental   ) What about the overestimations about children???? Two studies from May 2021 reported that chart review of pediatric hospitalizations found about 40% overestimation (when differentiating hospitalized for COVID pneumonia versus incidental PCR+ testing during routine surveillance but actually hospitalized for other causes like trauma). https://publications.aap.org/hospital... https://publications.aap.org/hospital... “Is it a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated?”    • Is this a pandemic of the unvaccinate...   White House embraces a manage-not-contain Omicron game plan https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01... Is Delta gone? https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-trac... 20-Week Study of Clinical Outcomes of Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Prophylaxis and Treatment https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2515690X211... FLURONA: https://www.winknews.com/2022/01/05/f... COVID MOVEMENT TO ENDEMIC vs PANDEMIC https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22... And from past podcasts: Nutrients in COVID: https://dranow.com/nutrients-covid-19/ Vitamin D pre-exposure and severity data: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... *If you aren’t taking Vitamin D you can start before having levels checked. Vitamin C and COVID: https://dranow.com/vitamin-c-in-covid... ** Can we vaccinate out of the virus? That would take 100% efficacy 100% uptake and no waning of vaccine effect – so no, we cannot vaccinate out of it.    • The Australian Protocol   AUS allowing for a mix of Vaccine immunity and natural immunity. “Permissive Infection”. **Natural infection provides IgA then M and G: Vaccine goes to Ig M and G ** IgA stops future viri in the mucosa (earlier) Real data on vaccine breakthrough cases: Espenhain, et.al. Epidemiological characterisation of the first 785 SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases in Denmark, December 2021. Eurosurveillance Volume 26, Issue 50, 16/Dec/2021 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/cont... COVID B and T Cell Immunity:    • COVID Post Infection T and B cell Imm...   Omicron mutations: https://osf.io/f7txy/ Post infection immunity versus vaccine immunity: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... Vaccinated people and breakthrough infection as well as transmissibility: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4157... Vaccinated and Unvaccinated have similar viral loads with Delta: “Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN told Medical News Today that the outbreak in Provincetown shows that fully vaccinated individuals can still transmit the virus.” “The small, but well-done CDC study in Provincetown indicated that both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons, when infected with the Delta variant, had equivalent amounts of virus back in their throats. This suggested that they might be equivalently infectious,” he said in an email.” https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...