The infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 among non-elderly people in the absence of vaccination or prior infection is important to estimate accurately, since 94% of the global population is younger than 70 years and 86% is younger than 60 years. In systematic searches in SeroTracker and PubMed (protocol: https://osf.io/xvupr), we identified 40 eligible national seroprevalence studies covering 38 countries with pre-vaccination seroprevalence data. For 29 countries (24 high-income, 5 others), publicly available age-stratified COVID-19 death data and age-stratified seroprevalence information were available and were included in the primary analysis.
The IFRs had a median of 0.035% (interquartile range (IQR) 0.013 – 0.056%) for the 0-59 years old population
0.095% (IQR 0.036 – 0.125%,) for the 0-69 years old
The median IFR was:
0.0003% at 0-19 years
0.003% at 20-29 years
0.011% at 30-39 years
0.035% at 40-49 years
0.129% at 50-59 years
0.501% at 60-69 years
Including data from another 9 countries with imputed age distribution of COVID-19 deaths yielded median IFR of 0.025-0.032% for 0-59 years and 0.063-0.082% for 0-69 years. Meta-regression analyses also suggested global IFR of 0.03% and 0.07%, respectively in these age groups. The current analysis suggests a much lower pre-vaccination IFR in non-elderly populations than previously suggested. Large differences did exist between countries and may reflect differences in comorbidities and other factors. These estimates provide a baseline from which to fathom further IFR declines with the widespread use of vaccination, prior infections, and evolution of new variants.
Highlights *Across 31 systematically identified national seroprevalence studies in the pre-vaccination era, the median infection fatality rate of COVID-19 was estimated to be 0.035% for people aged 0-59 years people and 0.095% for those aged 0-69 years.
*The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0-19 years, 0.003% at 20-29 years, 0.011% at 30-39 years, 0.035% at 40-49 years, 0.129% at 50-59 years, and 0.501% at 60-69 years.
*At a global level,pre-vaccination IFR may have been as low as 0.03% and 0.07% for 0-59 and 0-69 year old people, respectively.
*These IFR estimates in non-elderly populations are lower than previous calculations had suggested.
Polls taken in 2020 and 2021 revealed Americans were wildly confused and misinformed about their true risk of dying from COVID
Based on a new preprint analysis by professor John Ioannidis, there’s no reason for anyone to live in fear anymore, regardless of your age, as your risk of dying from COVID is — and always was — minuscule across the board
Before the COVID jabs were rolled out:
if you were 19 or younger, your risk of dying of COVID was 0.0003%; only 3 per 1 million infected with COVID at this age ended up dying
Between ages 60 and 69, the infection fatality rate was 0.501%, i.e., 1 out of 200 infected died
Emerging evidence suggests the shots are causing immune deficiency in some people, thereby actually raising their risk of dying from SARS-CoV-2 infection, even with the now-milder strains
The real-world risk of dying from COVID-19 based on published data from the Irish census bureau and the central statistics office for 2020 and 2021 is as follows:
for people under 70, the death rate was 0.014%
under 50 years of age, it was 0.002%, which equates to a 1 in 50,000 risk, or about the same as dying from fire or smoke inhalation
under 25 years of age, the mortality rate was 0.00018%, or 1 in 500,000 risk of dying from COVID
Use Pet Flea Collars? Have Kids? An Important Message
EPA to Ban Pet Collars That Contain Chemical Linked to Brain Damage in Children
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision is a result of a yearslong legal battle, which included four separate lawsuits, over the chemical tetrachlorvinphos. The agency lost two cases and refused to defend itself in two cases.
By Johnathan Hettinger
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will ban the sale of flea and tick collars containing a chemical linked to neurological damage in children, the agency announced this week.
The collars, which contain the chemical tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP) make up more than half of flea and tick collars sold in the U.S., according to the EPA. They are much cheaper than many name-brand collars and are largely aimed at low-income pet owners.
Tetrachlorvinphos, often shortened as TCVP, is a type of organophosphate chemical, which were originally developed as nerve agents in World War II. (See link for article)
The Pediatric Perils of PEG: From MiraLAX to COVID Shots, FDA and CDC Ignore Safety Signals
Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that some ultrasound contrast agents contain polyethylene glycol (PEG) and therefore shouldn’t be administered to patients with known or suspected allergies to PEG — but there are no similar warnings for adults or children who get PEG-containing COVID-19 shots or MiraLAX, an over-the-counter laxative.
The reason? The ministry linked the cough syrups to kidney injuries that recently killed nearly 100 Indonesian children (government analysis detected three hazardous contaminants: ethylene glycol (EG), diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol butyl ether or antifreeze) and nearly 70 children in The Gambia in West Africa, which could be the tip of a much larger iceberg.
Due to the deaths, the World Health Organization issued a medical product alert for four brands of cough syrup manufactured in India and imported into The Gambiathrough a U.S. company — warning of the products’ possibly global distribution and calling for the substandard products’ removal from circulation.
the COVID-19 shots promoted by the CDC and the syrups prohibited by the Indonesian ministry both contain the chemicalpolyethylene glycol (PEG)
Before EUA for the gene-therapy shots was granted, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) put the FDA on notice about PEG’s life-threatening anaphylactic potential — and sure enough, anaphylaxis was among the very first adverse events reported.
The FDA is cavalier about anaphylaxis, PEG, and the COVID shots.
The FDA is similarly cavalier about laxatives containing a form of PEG called PEG 3350 which has caused dramatic neuropsychiatric symptoms in children, ranging from seizures to psychosis.
MiraLAX is one such laxative that I posted about it previously which has caused behavior issues including violent episodes in children.
A 2012 citizen petition forced the NIH to assess PEG safety in children but the study, in collaboration with the FDA, has gone nowhere even though results were pledged to be available within a year. Evidently they are still recruiting and now the completion date isn’t until 2024.
Manufacturers praise PEGylation, a specific process of attaching PEG to biomedical molecules in order to impede the kidney’s attempts to clear drugs, forcing the body to hang onto them longer for a “half-life extension.”
An example of this process is in the mRNA gene therapy shots with the inclusion of PEGylated fats or lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) — designed to support “prolonged circulation”. Researchers admitted that without the PEG-coated lipid nanoparticles, “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines would not exist,” and enthused that the LNPs “have the ability to alter the course of history.”
Ignored is the fact that a study shows a large portion of the population is sensitized to PEG making them susceptible to hypersensitivity reactions. Also ignored is the potential for adverse immune reactions “entailing severe allergic symptoms with occasionally fatal anaphylaxis.” Data is now reflecting this including a study showing anaphylactic reactions in three patients undergoing colonoscopy which contains PEG-containing bowel-cleansing agents. All three got the Moderna shot in the previous 12-18 days and the researchers admitted a likely causal relationship, warning that healthcare workers should be aware of PEG allergies after COVID shots.
The FDA, due to 11 cases of anaphylaxis and two deaths in patients with known PEG allergies, has already warned that some ultrasound contrast agents contain PEG “and should not be administered in those with known or suspected allergies.”
The NIH and FDA have concededEG and DEG are neurotoxic for children, although the FDA allows trace amounts (0.2% total by weight) of both in PEG-containing medications. A 2011 study concluded that DEG contamination is an inevitable outcome of some manufacturing processes.
A retired pathologist, the first to describe poisoning by PEG in 1982, found that a severely disrupted skin barrier allowed PEG to be absorbed directly into the body. He and many parents believe something similar probably happens in children with a damaged intestinal barrier who ingest PEG. His studies on rabbits showed PEG’s metabolites include toxic aldehydes, demonstrating PEG’s potential damaging effects on the kidneys due to organ injury, pain and inflammation.
More disturbing evidence of the presence of toxic “forever” chemicals in common consumer products. Action Alert!
A new report has found that five of 23 tampon products tested positive for the presence of PFAS “forever” chemicals, including two brands labeled “organic.” This represents another route of exposure to these dangerous chemicals that seem to be ubiquitous in our environment and consumer products. How long will the EPA sit by idly and watch while Americans continue to be exposed to these dangerous chemicals?
The report, issued jointly by Mamavation and Environmental Health News, found that 22 percent of the samples tested positive for the presence of organic fluorine, an indicator of the presence of PFAS. Levels of PFAS varied from 19 parts per million (ppm) to 28 ppm. The products that tested positive for organic fluorine were:
Up & Up (Target Brand) Regular Tampons — 23 ppm organic fluorine
As we noted in our coverage of hair dyes, the organic certification process is a USDA program for agricultural products.Its use on consumer products like tampons is meaningless, though individual ingredients like cotton can be organic. It appears the use of organic cotton in tampons is not a guarantee that PFAS are avoided.
There were products using organic cotton that did not test positive for organic fluorine:
Honey Pot Organically Grown Tampons
Live Better (CVS) Organic Cotton Tampons regular
Lola Super Tampons Made with 100% organic cotton
o.b. Organic 100% Organic cotton
OI Girl Organic Regular Tampons
My Box Shop 32 Organic Tampons
Natracare Organic Tampons with applicator
Seventh Generation Organic Cotton Tampons
TOP Organic Cotton Tampons with plant-based compact applicator
Viv for your V Organic Cotton Tampons with Plant-based applicator
Organic cotton products are less likely to be contaminated with other chemicals like glyphosate and other toxic pesticides.
PFAS aren’t the only cause for concern in tampons and other feminine hygiene products. We previously reported on studies showing that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and phthalates contaminate these products. Tampons and other feminine care products are often made from cotton, which is typically genetically engineered and soaked in pesticides, or rayon, which is made from wood pulp and then bleached. The highly permeable nature of the vaginal wall means that these toxins are likely getting absorbed with each use over a prolonged period of time.
(See link for article and to write Congress and EPA telling them to ban PFAS chemicals)
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If you do not know what PFAS chemicals are, they are persistent and hormone-disrupting substances that break down slowly and have been found in the blood of people and animals globally as well as in the water, air, fish, and soil.
Current peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that exposure to certain levels of PFAS may lead to:
Reproductive effects such as decreased fertility or increased high blood pressure in pregnant women.
Developmental effects or delays in children, including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes.
Increased risk of some cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers.
Reduced ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections, including reduced vaccine response.
Interference with the body’s natural hormones.
Increased cholesterol levels and/or risk of obesity.
This article states that 65% of “period underwear” tested are likely contaminated with PFAS chemicals as well.
If you are unfamiliar with menstrual cups, I highly recommend you check them out. I was in my 40’s before I found out about these clever, reusable, safe cups that eliminate the need for all the paper, plastic, and other menstrual products, saving you money in the end.
Could prescribed fire reduce ticks and their diseases?
By Chuck Gill, Penn State
Oct. 24, 2022
Prescribed fire — a tool increasingly used by forest managers and landowners to combat invasive species, improve wildlife habitat and restore ecosystem health — also could play a role in reducing the abundance of ticks and the transmission of disease pathogens they carry, according to a team of scientists.
For a recently published paper, the researchers reviewed the scientific literature on the effects of fire on forest composition and structure and its influence on ticks and their wildlife hosts.
They concluded that prescribed burning can help restore forest habitats to a state less favorable to several species of disease-carrying ticks and could be an effective management tactic for reducing their populations. READ MORE
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This should be a no-brainer. I’m continually amazed with the lack of common sense in research. Seems all that matters is continuing the machinery (money and power grabs) of research.
The question to ask is, now that this information continues to be proven, will anyone do it? How many years will it take before this effective practice will once again be permitted?
EXCLUSIVE:First Run Features is promising “a robust awards campaign” for The Quiet Epidemic, after acquiring U.S. distribution rights to the documentary about Chronic Lyme and tick-borne disease.
The film directed by Lindsay Keys and Winslow Crane-Murdoch will begin a one-week Oscar-qualifying run at the IFC Center in New York on December 2, followed by a nationwide rollout in early 2023.
According to CDC figures, almost half a million Americans become infected with Lyme disease each year. Of those infected, a subset of patients will develop chronic symptoms, but according to the film, the medical community has largely been reluctant to acknowledge the reality of long-term illness from Lyme disease. (See link for article & film trailer)
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The story follows a young girl and a Duke University Scientist both diagnosed with a disease said not to exist – Chronic Lyme disease. Besides following the patients an investigation into the history of Lyme is given and a paper trail of suppressed research and buried documents reveal how the disease has been allowed to continually spread.
Unfortunately the myth that “climate change” is behind tick and disease proliferation is regurgitated despite independent research proving this tenet to be wrong. More and more is coming out on how “climate change” and the green-energy scam are being used to make the public look the other way, and for a money grab. Experts that dare defy the politically motivated narrative state Green energy policies have actually hurt the environment (not to mention human and animal health) and made it far worse. What is rarely mentioned or discussed is the very real climate “engineering” being done by our own government to “control” weather. The coal fly ash, utilized in tropspheric aerosol geoengineering is the primary cause of stratospheric ozone depletion, not chlorofluorocarbons.
According to new research, the chance of SARS-CoV-2 having a natural origin is less than 1 in 100 million. SARS-CoV-2 has a telltale signature of genetic engineering, not previously identified
That genetic fingerprint suggests the work of Ralph Baric, Ph.D., was used in the creation of the virus. There’s a direct match between Baric’s published research — which describes how to hide telltale signs of genetic engineering — and the genetics found in SARS-CoV-2
In 2002, Baric invented a technique called seamless ligation, which conceals all evidence of genetic engineering in lab-created pathogens. Baric’s nickname for this technique is the “no-see’m method.” Baric taught the method to Shi Zhengli in 2016, and Shi and her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) demonstrated mastery of Baric’s technique in a series of gain-of-function experiments
However, while seamless ligation conceals human tampering in lab-created pathogens, the method leaves a signature of its own, and that’s the signature discovered in SARS-CoV-2
The findings raise the possibility of liability for the University of North Carolina where Baric works, the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded Baric, the WIV and other parties
According to new research, the chance of SARS-CoV-2 having a natural origin is less than 1 in 100 million.1,2The paper3 was posted on the preprint server BioRxiv October 20, 2022.
The authors of this research (Alex Washburne, Valentin Bruttel, and Antonius VanDongen) are not alone. Alexis Baden-Mayer also wrote an illuminating article that points to SARS-CoV-2 being a chimera from Chimerica bioweapon for the purpose of creating:
liability-free “vaccines” paid for by the taxpayers
The author points out that the very people behind it all are limiting our understanding by framing the origins of COVID as either a natural “spillover” from an animal “reservoir” or a lab “accident,” and either the work of the China or the U.S. when Event 201, and the history of the U.S. biological weapons program reveal a far more complex and evil scenario.
Lab Leak MOST LIKELY Origin For COVID; Report Reveals UNSAFE Conditions At Wuhan Lab
Oct. 31, 2022
The Rising covers the information presented in the top article on the origins of COVID. Further, the commentator brings up an article in The Atlantic calling for “Amnesty” for “Pandemic” Authoritarians. An excellent article covers this notion:
The Atlantic has come under fire for suggesting that all the terrible pandemic-era decisions over lockdowns, school closures, masking, and punishing an entire class of people who questioned the efficacy and wisdom of taking a rushed, experimental vaccine – for a virus with a 99% survival rate in most, should all be water under the bridge.
“We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID,” writes Brown Professor Emily Oster – a huge lockdown proponent, who now pleads from mercy from the once-shunned.
“Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward,” she continues.
Except, they weren’t “in the dark” about Covid. There were numerous sources pointing out the actual science that ran contrary to the mandate claims, and they were deliberately silenced by a vast media campaign. Evidence suggests that media platforms worked in tandem with Big Tech, the CDC and the Biden Administration. It was not a simple matter of overreaction, there was collusion to remove all counter-information.
Nice try, Emily.
Important excerpt:
The problem was not people’s ignorance of the facts, it was the organized antagonism and censorship against anyone presenting data that was contradictory to the mandate agenda. This is setting aside proclamations like those from the LA Times, which argued that mocking the deaths of “anti-vaxxers” might be necessary and justified. After two years of this type of arrogant nonsense it’s hard to imagine people will be willing to pretend as if all is well.
The active effort to shut down any opposing data is the root crime, though, and no, it can never be forgotten or forgiven.
No Mercy, No Quarter: It’s Time To Crush The Branch Covidians
Fifteen days to slow the spread turned into, please forget we stripped you of your human dignity.
Those with gatekeeping powers, which they used to kick families off flights and deny Americans with disabilities public services also include government officials, doctors, and celebrities who instructed their followers to cut ties with relatives who refused to wear masks or take the vaccine.And they listened. Uncles were uninvited from meeting their nephews, parents disowned their children, and grandparents died alone in nursing homes. They threw decades of medical knowledge out the window and replaced it with political propaganda, like proposing people double-mask, while admitting probable aerosol transmission of the virus through floors and walls, closing elementary schools, and dropping patients from the organ donor list. Sadly, there were many who lost all humanity by rejoicing in the deaths or belittling those who didn’t wear masks or get vaccinated. After virtue-signaling many of these poor souls are ill or dead.(See link for article)
Those who had good reasons not to mask or get the COVID shots were completely vilified and their reasons ignored. This is not OK.
Medicine and research has been completely destroyed. Doctors lost:
Professional Autonomy – Doctors lost control of their practices and turned them over to corporations and large insurance companies.
Their Scientific Roots
Their Ethical Mooring – “We are seeing the complete destruction of medical ethics — without which you don’t have a profession.” ~ Dr. Richard Amerling
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Important point from the Activist Post article:
One cannot help but notice that the timing of the Atlantic’s appeal for passive forgetfulness coincides with the swiftly approaching midterm election….
The current regime has denied sick patients effective, cheap, safe,life-saving treatments for COVID while approving ineffective, expensive,toxic Big Pharma drugs – again allowing Big Pharma to rake in profits.
This isn’t beating pharma this is aiding and abetting it.
Patients and doctors haven’t had any recourse other than through the court system. The CARES Act destroyed patient and doctor rights and insured hospitals would only use government approved treatments by giving them kick-backs. Dissenters have been singled out and mistreated by their own family members and neighbors. In short, a new form of segregation is allowed and encouraged.
Those entrusted with public health haven’t only failed miserably, they are directly behind the mistreatment of others – including very real segregation, and continue to lie, deceive, manipulate, and push a faulty narrative at all costs despite truth to the contrary – and causing irreparable harm and death. ICAN just published the fact that the CDC didn’t even bother to collect data on 15 adverse reactions of interest linked to the COVID shots including myocarditis, blood clots, thombocytopenia, and others that are known to occur.
As the old saying goes, “You commit the crime, you do the time.“
First, you can not forgive someone who doesn’t recognize and admit they were wrong.
Second, you can not forgive someone who hasn’t truly asked for forgiveness,clearly understanding and admitting they were wrong.
And third, just because someone has the grace to forgive doesn’t absolve the perpetrator from the consequences of their actions (do the time, get fired, pay restitution, etc) and making things right so the crime isn’t repeated in the future. Punishment should teach lessons.
Amnesty for perpetrators of the ‘Plandemic’ would only allow for it to all happen again.
Everything being said by our corrupt public health authorities demonstrates they are not admitting fault. They want to blame “messaging,” when there are far more important issues such as completely ignoring the Constitution, censoring, banning, and persecuting dissenters, colluding with Big Media, Big Pharma, and Big Tech, overriding our medical/individual rights and privacy for informed consent, not to mention experimenting upon the American public, and much, much more.
Lessons are obviously not being learned as Boston University, funded by NIAID, recently created a deadly new COVID strain with an 80% kill rate in rats. According to Dr. James Lyons-Weiler:
“The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor binding motif (RBM)”
These words will ring in minds of those in NIAID and CDC and everyone who pushed the spike-only vaccines.
This proves that spike-only “vaccines” caused vaccine escape.
Are our corrupt public authorities admitting this inconvenient truth? (Answer: no)
Another example of not admitting fault is the continued use of FDA-approved Paxlovid when it is actually connected with a “rebound effect,” and toxicity that can sometimes cause deadly blood clots which of course will muddy the waters further as the COVID shots are also linked to deadly blood clots leading to heart damage. How convenient for the guilty.
Yet another example of not learning any lessons is Australia’s bright idea to inject cows with the mRNA gene therapy shotwith the spike protein so farmers can remain in business. Nearly 2 in 10 cows DIEDalmost instantly. It is known the toxic spike protein goes systemically into the body shortly after injection which means all diary products and meat will be affected, thereby affecting humans consuming these things.
Payouts for Covid-19 shot injuries in humans are set to explode more than 80-fold to nearly $77 millionby July next year, Australia’s budget papers reveal. The figure was quietly buried in the Services Australia portfolio budget statement, in a table detailing third-party payments from the agency “on behalf of other entities.” Other figures show that out of 2987 people to apply for compensation, only 59 were successful, with experts describing the rate of payouts as “absolutely pitiful”. A large survey on tens of thousands of Ausies shows they regret getting the COVID shots.
Does it sound like anyone has learned any lessons? Anyone admitting fault?
The phrase “speed of science” inspired me to re imagine this classic folk song. American folk music has an incredibly rich history…it was all about telling stories that resonated with people and challenging the status quo. Who’s doing that today? I’m trying to, at least. How many classics do I have to hurl at the algorithm to break through the wall? I guess we’ll have to see. Plot twist: the extreme censorship I’ve experienced ended up inspiring my best work. Please share this and support if you can.
Go here for an excellent article and here for an excellent news story on how COVID dictators are pleading for amnesty yet are guilty of lying about virtually every aspect of COVID that cost the public their freedoms, their jobs, their educations, and only promoted hatred and segregation.
The treatment of the unvaccinated was unbelievable.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 