COVID update: January 31, 2023
1. COVID is the #1 infectious disease killing children. 2. What is causing the increase in excess deaths? 3. COVID persists in multiple organs, in more people than previously thought.
COVID is the #1 infectious disease killing children.
A new study, published January 30th, 2023, assessed the underlying cause of death among children from 0 to 19 years old in the U.S. They report that COVID is the number one cause of death by infectious or respiratory diseases. COVID ranked eighth among all causes of death. They said that “COVID posed a significant disease burden for children and young people, so pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical interventions continue to be important to limit transmission of the virus and to mitigate severe disease.”
What is causing the increase in excess deaths?
In a study published, August 16, 2020 (pre-vax), they noted that "coronaviruses are known to affect the cardiovascular system.” This was an early warning when they noted that COVID-19 itself might aggravate the myocardial injury, by causing the “release of multiple cytokines and chemokines that can not only lead to vascular inflammation and plaque instability but also to myocardial inflammation.”
Fig 1. We can see that with each surge, excess deaths increase at the same time as COVID deaths. The surges in excess deaths do not follow the vaccine campaigns. Unfortunately, the most likely reason these deaths are not being classified as COVID is because they came in as heart attacks or strokes. Either they weren’t tested for COVID or, if they were, they still put the primary cause of death as something other than COVID.
In a study published on September 5, 2022, titled “Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness," they summarized their findings by saying, "In the present cohort of individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness, cardiac symptoms were related to subclinical inflammatory cardiac involvement, which may, at least in part, explain the pathophysiological background of persistent cardiac symptoms.” This is what the 2020 study and other studies in between have said. The cumulative data keeps pointing to the same cause.
“Notably, profound myocardial injury or structural heart disease is not a prerequisite for the presence of symptoms defying the classical definitions of viral myocarditis.” “Subclinical cardiovascular inflammation is increasingly recognized as a risk factor in chronic autoimmune systemic conditions"
We have to consider that vaccines may cause autoimmune responses in some people. In rare situations, that could increase the odds of or worsen existing vascular dysfunction. For more information on this, please read Boosters: Important Considerations.
Based on the available evidence, it looks like COVID is the primary cause of the heart attacks, strokes, and excess deaths. If it were vaccines, at least we could simply choose to avoid taking them. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy with COVID.
In a data analysis from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, published on September 29, 2022, they ran the data and showed that increases in heart attack mortality have coincided with increases in COVID-19 infection, even during the pandemic's assumed milder Omicron phase. Also, the increase was most noticeable in people between the ages of 25 and 44, who are not usually thought to be at high risk for a heart attack. This age group is less vaccinated than the older adults, who tend to be at the highest risk for heart attacks.
The 25–44 age group is more likely to be re-infected by COVID through their jobs and by their young school-age children. In the year before the pandemic, there were 143,787 heart attack deaths; within the first year of the pandemic, this number had increased by 14% to 164,096. Anyone thinking, "What if it was the vaccines?” This was before anyone took a vaccine.
They found that acute myocardial infarction deaths during the pandemic increased across all age groups but were most significant in the youngest group they looked at, which was ages 25 to 44. In 2021, the "observed" death rates from heart attacks were 29.9% higher than what was "predicted" for adults 25–44, 19.6% higher for adults 45–64, and 13.7% higher for adults 65 and older.
Fig 2. The increase in excess deaths is accruing at the same pace as COVID deaths in the U.S. and the U.K.
Fig. 3 As of Jan.24, 2023, the cumulative deaths reportedly from COVID, are 216,255 in the U.K. and 1.11 million in the U.S.
COVID Persists in multiple organs, more often than previously thought.
In a new pre-print, published January 30th, 2023, they looked at over 95,000 people, living in 75,000 households, in the U.K. A bunch of new insights. They found that about 30% of people got sick again, which would have been misclassified as a re-infection with a new variant if the viral loads had kept going up. They discovered strong evidence for a 55% increase in the likelihood of reporting Long COVID more than 12 weeks after infection if they had persistent infections. They found people are rarely re-infected with the same variant. They found that persistent infections last at least 2–6 months and that each person in whom COVID persists can cause unique mutations. When you think about how many people have persistent infections (which are explained in more detail in the next paragraph), you can see that the chances of mutations and new variants are increasing at an exponential rate.
The most concerning aspect of this is that they found that between 1 out of every 200-1000 infections can persist. With tens of thousands of new infections every day, and varying levels of exposure, many of which are high doses, and without mitigation, we have little control over when that happens, so the numbers of people with Long COVID will continue to climb. We are playing COVID roulette with our lives and, more importantly, with the children’s lives, that adults are supposed to protect.
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