Category: Natural Immunity
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Global Study: No child known has passed coronavirus to adults
Alison Boast, Alasdair Munro, and Henry Goldstein have reviewed 319 scientific studies related to children and COVID-19. From their research, they have discovered the following: Very few children have COVID-19. This trend is true for many countries around the world and is confirmed by testing in South Korea, Iceland, and the Italian town of Vo.…
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WHO: Asymptomatics aren’t driving the spread of the coronavirus
In a video statement released by the World Health Organization yesterday, June 8, 2020, it said that asymptomatic spread is very rare. According to Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, this finding has several policy implications. In light of this discovery, Dr. Van Kerkhove says that the more important…
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Why no one in Israel can explain the drop in coronavirus cases
In this article for Haaretz, Meirav Arlosoroff explains that experts in Israel are surprised that instead of going up, coronavirus cases dropped after lockdowns were lifted. None of the mathematical models used in Israel predicted this outcome. Arlosoroff cites the words of Prof. Hagai Levine who said that the models developed by physicists and mathematicians led…
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Coronavirus might disappear before a vaccine is developed
In this article for Al Arabiya English, author Tamara Abueish reports on the ideas of Dr. Guiseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan. Remuzzi says symptoms among newly infected individuals are becoming less severe, and there are lesser number of people who will require intensive care. Remuzzi theorizes that this…
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Cruise ship experience shows more symptomless SARS-COV-2
The following article written by Dawn O’Shea for Univadis Medical News is a clinical summary of a research conducted by Alvin Ing, Christine Cocks, and Jeffery Peter Green. The researchers describe the first instance of complete COVID-19 testing of all passengers and staff of an isolated cruise ship during the pandemic. According to the RT-PCR test, 59%…
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Study shows COVID-19 positive child did not infect peers
This article published by the Oxford University Press for Infectious Diseases Society of America looks at possible secondary transmission from an Englishman who was known to have been infected with SARS-COV-2 in Singapore. Investigation shows that the Englishman infected at least 12 other individuals, one of whom was a child who was also suffering from picornavirus (a virus…
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Why you haven’t caught COVID-19 yet
Update 5/30/2020: We just checked the video today and found that it has been taken down [In a previous press release, YouTube CEO said that any video that presents viewpoints that challenges WHO will be banned from the platform. This is not a new experience. To know more, read The Pandemic Of Censorship]. We have…
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Singapore study shows COVID-19 patients no longer infectious after 11 days
In a joint position statement, experts from the Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore estimate that SARS-COV-2 positive individuals are most infectious on the first week of infection, with infectivity declining after 7 days. Citing the results of a local study involving 766 COVID-19 patients, the statement said that…
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Study shows low infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 carriers
In a new study published by the Respiratory Medicine journal, researchers found that some asymptomatic carriers may not be as infectious as we once thought. The published study focuses on one 22-year-old female with a history of congenital heart disease (referred to in the study as Case A). The patient has been experiencing shortness of…
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COVID-19 patients testing positive after recovery aren’t infectious
This article published by Bloomberg explores the results of the study conducted by the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which showed that COVID-19 survivors who tested positive for coronavirus after their recovery are no longer infectious. This finding is important as many countries begin reopening the economy, and could provide important guidance for post-COVID…
