{"id":176059,"date":"2021-12-03T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=176059"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:29:05","slug":"runny-nose-coronaviruses-omicron-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=176059","title":{"rendered":"Runny Nose Coronaviruses\u2013Omicron Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"253\" data-attachment-id=\"176061\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=176061\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?fit=1276%2C446&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1276,446\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0corona-family-w-omicron\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?fit=723%2C253&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=723%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=1024%2C358&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=300%2C105&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=768%2C268&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=640%2C224&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=1200%2C419&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=816%2C285&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?resize=229%2C80&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0corona-family-w-omicron.png?w=1276&amp;ssl=1 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">OMG OMICRON!<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blessing in disguise:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/coronavirus-blessing-in-the-sky-omicron-may-be-very-positive-news-for-the-world-if-new-covid-mutation-kills-off-more-lethal-delta-variant\/\"><strong>&nbsp;Omicron variant may be \u2018very positive\u2019 news for the world if new Covid mutation kills off more lethal Delta coronavirus.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp; Excerpts in italics with my bolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hospitals and GPs across Southern Africa are increasingly reporting that the&nbsp;<strong>symptoms of the aggressive new Covid strain Omicron are \u201cunusual but very mild,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;according to various media in South Africa this weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Around<strong>&nbsp;90 per cent of all new infections in the Johannesburg region<\/strong>&nbsp;are now caused by the Omicron strain but, so far, the<strong>&nbsp;Covid death rate and even hospital admissions appear not to be increasing<\/strong>&nbsp;significantly, local media report.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Some experts are therefore cautiously optimistic that \u2013 if Omicron turns out to be less lethal but more contagious and dominant than the Delta variant \u2013 the new mutation may actually be a blessing in disguise.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hundreds of infected people across Southern Africa&nbsp;<strong>reportedly complain of nausea, headaches, fatigue and a high pulse rate<\/strong>, but none seem to suffer from a loss of taste or smell, which has been the case with most other Covid mutations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Moreover, more and more medics across Southern Africa are confirming that&nbsp;<strong>most Omicron-infected patients merely have a severe headache, nausea or dizziness.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr Angelique Coetzee told various newspapers in South Africa: \u201c<strong>Symptoms are so different and so mild<\/strong>&nbsp;from [non-Omicron] Covid patients I have treated before.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A GP for over three decades, and chair of the South African Medical Association, she was the&nbsp;<strong>first<\/strong>&nbsp;African doctor&nbsp;<strong>to suggest<\/strong>&nbsp;to local authorities&nbsp;<strong>Covid had mutated into a new strain.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Looking at the first data coming out of Southern Africa, virologist Marc van Ranst said this weekend that \u201cif the omicron variant is less pathogenic but with greater infectivity, allowing Omicron to replace Delta, this would be very positive.\u201d<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Background from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-brief-history-of-the-coronavirus-family-including-one-pandemic-we-might-have-missed-134556\"><strong>A brief history of the coronavirus family<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;excerpts in italics with my bolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Scientists have&nbsp;<strong>known<\/strong>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<strong>human coronavirus since the 1960s<\/strong>. But only rarely has it garnered wider recognition over the past half a century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One example was<strong>&nbsp;in 2003,<\/strong>&nbsp;when the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus&nbsp;<strong>(SARS-CoV)<\/strong>&nbsp;caused an outbreak of the disease severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mainland China and Hong Kong. Another was&nbsp;<strong>in 2012<\/strong>, when the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus&nbsp;<strong>(MERS-CoV)<\/strong>&nbsp;led to an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Korea, among other countries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In both cases,&nbsp;<strong>the coronaviruses were new to science<\/strong>. Happily, both&nbsp;<strong>outbreaks were contained<\/strong>&nbsp;thanks to a<strong>&nbsp;combination of human intervention and still unknown natural circumstances.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Scientists know a great deal about human coronaviruses. But we don\u2019t know it all. And there is<strong>&nbsp;a chance that scientists failed to identify a coronavirus pandemic in the 19th century.<\/strong>&nbsp;This brief introduction looks at the growing dynasty, as well as the one that we may have missed which could have a lot to teach scientists about COVID-19 and the human immune response.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses has approved the<strong>&nbsp;naming of more than 40 coronaviruses<\/strong>. The&nbsp;<strong>vast majority<\/strong>&nbsp;of these<strong>&nbsp;infect animals<\/strong>. The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the number of<strong>&nbsp;identified coronaviruses that infect humans to seven<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Four of these are community acquired and have circulated through the human population continually for a very long time.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The four community-acquired human coronaviruses \u2013 meaning that they are acquired or arise in the general population \u2013 typically cause mild cold-like symptoms in humans. Two of them<strong>, hCoV-OC43 and hCoV-229E,<\/strong>&nbsp;have been<strong>&nbsp;responsible for between 10% and 30% of all common colds<\/strong>&nbsp;since about the 1960s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>While the discovery of novel coronaviruses like 229E and OC43 generated great media interest at the time\u2014one article boldly proclaimed that \u201cscience has tripled its chance for eventually licking the common cold\u201d\u2014Dr. McIntosh recalls that the&nbsp;<strong>scientific community didn\u2019t actively focus on investigating coronaviruses again until the emergence of SARS in 2003.<\/strong>&nbsp;Because 229E and OC43 caused relatively<strong>&nbsp;mild illnesses<\/strong>&nbsp;in people, doctors could&nbsp;<strong>treat them much like colds caused by other viruses: fever reducers, cough suppressants and the occasional bowl of chicken soup.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Since then,<strong>\u00a0two more coronaviruses that also cause colds\u2014NL63 and HKU1<\/strong>\u2014have been discovered. And it wasn\u2019t until\u00a0<strong>2012<\/strong>\u2014nearly 50 years after its discovery\u2014that\u00a0<strong>the complete genome of 229E was finally sequenced.<\/strong>\u00a0In the meantime, a number of case reports were published showing that\u00a0<strong>229E could potentially cause severe respiratory symptoms in patients with compromised immune symptoms, though for most healthy people its impact is mostly limited to a cold.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"delta19-the-fifth-runny-nose-cv\"><strong>DELTA19: The Fifth Runny Nose CV?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lubos Motl makes the case that the now dominant Delta variant has mutated to a more infectious, less deadly form, and should be managed as we do with the other four, and as Scandinavians are already doing. His article is<a href=\"https:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/most-covid-deaths-are-not-due-to-covid.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29\"><strong>&nbsp;Most Covid deaths are not due to Covid now<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; Excerpts in italics with my bolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">A simple calculation showing that Covid-del<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em><strong>ta is far less lethal than flu<\/strong><\/em>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One of the points that those of us who opposed the uncontrolled Covid hysteria emphasized from the beginning was the fact that the&nbsp;<strong>people who got a positive PCR test were not necessarily ill.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In practice,&nbsp;<strong>what matters are the fractions.<\/strong>&nbsp;It is a quantitative question.&nbsp;<strong>Some<\/strong>&nbsp;of the Covid-positive people have been&nbsp;<strong>ill<\/strong>, some of those were&nbsp;<strong>hospitalized<\/strong>&nbsp;or they&nbsp;<strong>died<\/strong>. But some of the PCR tests are&nbsp;<strong>false positives<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;many truly infected<\/strong>&nbsp;people with a positive PCR test are&nbsp;<strong>asymptomatic<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>or<\/strong>&nbsp;their illness is&nbsp;<strong>so mild<\/strong>&nbsp;that it is not worth mentioning).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><b>A related statement was that i<\/b><\/mark><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">n most countries, a Covid death only means a \u201cdeath with a positive PCR test\u201d which doesn\u2019t mean that the death was fully or mostly caused by the Fauci virus.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Again, that is an important point to have in mind. But&nbsp;<strong>a year ago<\/strong>&nbsp;when the&nbsp;<strong>Czech daily casualties became substantial,<\/strong>&nbsp;I finally became certain that the distinction didn\u2019t matter in the 2020-2021 winter season. One can look at the total weekly numbers of deaths.<strong>&nbsp;In Czechia (10.7 million people), there were numerous weeks in which the normal weekly number of deaths (2100) was doubled<\/strong>&nbsp;(4000+). In fact,<strong>&nbsp;the 2020 excess deaths (17k) surpassed the number of Covid deaths by dozens of percent<\/strong>. Some of the other deaths could have been either due to the lockdown and a less inaccessible healthcare; or they could have been deaths that were secretly due to Covid, too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But&nbsp;<strong>this situation<\/strong>&nbsp;(\u201cCovid deaths are mostly real deaths due to Covid\u201d and \u201cthe excess of deaths is even higher than the official Covid deaths\u201d) has&nbsp;<strong>profoundly changed when delta and derived variants have become the dominant versions of Covid.<\/strong>&nbsp;Four months ago I emphasized that&nbsp;<strong>Delta SARS-CoV-2 is strictly a common cold virus because it causes a running nose<\/strong>&nbsp;(this is true for all the derived variants, it is not useful for epidemiological purposes to distinguish them). A&nbsp;<strong>running nose<\/strong>&nbsp;is a cosmetic trait that&nbsp;<strong>makes the disease more infectious<\/strong>&nbsp;(you shoot droplets on others by your nose)<strong>&nbsp;but it also makes the disease far less serious<\/strong>&nbsp;because the nose\u2019s reaction helps you to<strong>&nbsp;reduce the dose in your body quickly, perhaps before it becomes substantial in the lungs.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So&nbsp;<strong>the virus (overwhelmingly delta and derivatives) may also be PCR-found<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2% of the hospitalized people, 2% of ICU patients, and 2% of the people who died yesterday.&nbsp;<strong>For 16 weeks in a row, weeks 21-36, the total number of deaths in Czechia was below the normal (2015-2019 average).<\/strong>&nbsp;You may check that&nbsp;<strong>the deaths are below the normal even in a half of Europe right now.<\/strong>&nbsp;At any rate,<strong>&nbsp;we get about 300 deaths every day<\/strong>. If you&nbsp;<strong>assume<\/strong>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<strong>Covid is just spread randomly among these people<\/strong>&nbsp;(Covid doesn\u2019t deliberately avoid the people who have serious cancer or heart attack etc.), it is&nbsp;<strong>unavoidable that 2% of 300 i.e. 6 people a day are dying with Covid even if Covid doesn\u2019t contribute to the death at all!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">So Covid delta simply is less dangerous than flu!<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So, now, despite the growth from the early summer by 1.5 orders of magnitude, the number of active people is still just 150 per 100,000 or so, below the number 1,600-1,800 per 100,000 that normally defines a flu epidemic.\u00a0<b>S<\/b><strong>o, we are one order of magnitude below a flu epidemic\u2019s threshold now; and the flu-like disease, Covid delta, is less dangerous than flu, too!<\/strong>\u00a0Those are reasons why the\u00a0<strong>non-standard and emergency policies (and the hysteria) are absolutely unjustifiable<\/strong>\u00a0by the facts. Thank God,\u00a0<strong>at least the 3 Germanic Scandinavian countries have understood<\/strong>\u00a0that it is silly to \u201cfight against Covid now\u201d and they ended all restrictions. In fact, you don\u2019t even need face masks inside airplanes, during flights inside Scandinavia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Meanwhile, tons of\u00a0<strong>other countries controlled by hopeless unhinged crackpots who actually believe that Covid delta is an exceptionally serious disease;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>or<\/strong>\u00a0evil people who know very well that it is not but\u00a0<strong>who just want to exploit the fabricated fear for their personal benefits<\/strong>\u00a0are leading their nations into a suicidal, war-like behavior. The situation is most shocking in\u00a0<strong>Australia<\/strong>\u00a0but countries like<strong>\u00a0Lithuania, Slovenia, and even Italy etc<\/strong>. have gotten close to this Australian insanity. In practice, if whole nations may be\u00a0<strong>brainwashed to believe that the situation deserves a state of emergency<\/strong>\u00a0now, they may be brainwashed even when the numbers are going to be even smaller than today (even if it is by extra 3 orders of magnitude smaller!).\u00a0<strong>Because the \u201cnumber of cases\u201d is almost certain not to go to zero<\/strong>\u00a0in whole affected countries for a year or many years (and reasonably likely, never),\u00a0<strong>these brainwashed nations may expect quite a long, dark future.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"176063\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=176063\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0payn_c18681120211130120100-1.jpg?fit=630%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0payn_c18681120211130120100-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0payn_c18681120211130120100-1.jpg?fit=630%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0payn_c18681120211130120100-1.jpg?resize=723%2C489&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176063\" width=\"723\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0payn_c18681120211130120100-1.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0payn_c18681120211130120100-1.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/0payn_c18681120211130120100-1.jpg?resize=118%2C80&amp;ssl=1 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Science Matters<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 2, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-science-matters wp-block-embed-science-matters\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rclutz.com\/2021\/12\/02\/runny-nose-coronaviruses-omicron-update\/\">Runny Nose Coronaviruses&#8211;Omicron Update<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG OMICRON! Blessing in disguise:&nbsp;Omicron variant may be \u2018very positive\u2019 news for the world if new Covid mutation kills off more lethal Delta coronavirus.&nbsp; Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Hospitals and GPs across Southern Africa are increasingly reporting that the&nbsp;symptoms of the aggressive new Covid strain Omicron are \u201cunusual but very mild,\u201d&nbsp;according to various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-JNF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":217014,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=217014","url_meta":{"origin":176059,"position":0},"title":"The Hidden Danger of Omicron Vaccines (TSN)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"We are facing another man-made catastrophic threat related to COVID-19. 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three times as long as vaccine immunity (and Omicron infections give about 75% protection against Omicron).","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"23\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Natural immunity against Omicron from a previous Omicron infection is better than advertised (75%+) so far Two new interesting studies out of Qatar in the last month show that natural immunity against Covid is better than recent headlines suggest, and also that (as expected) immunity created from a real infection\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0Covid-july21-22.jpg?fit=1084%2C539&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0Covid-july21-22.jpg?fit=1084%2C539&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, 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Here, I want to look at the only metric that really matters, namely excess mortality, to make some basic points about what has happened to us since 2020, and what is happening\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0euromomo-4f81ec18-25f3-4167-8b1a-483da1ba3db6.png?fit=1200%2C477&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0euromomo-4f81ec18-25f3-4167-8b1a-483da1ba3db6.png?fit=1200%2C477&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0euromomo-4f81ec18-25f3-4167-8b1a-483da1ba3db6.png?fit=1200%2C477&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0euromomo-4f81ec18-25f3-4167-8b1a-483da1ba3db6.png?fit=1200%2C477&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0euromomo-4f81ec18-25f3-4167-8b1a-483da1ba3db6.png?fit=1200%2C477&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":217774,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=217774","url_meta":{"origin":176059,"position":5},"title":"Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccines","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In regard to the Pfizer vaccine, three shots offered considerably more protection. 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