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Dec. 23, 2022
China is beginning to lift its more stringent Covid-19 restrictions after nearly three years in isolation. But what could mark the end of its zero-Covid policy may be just the beginning of the country’s pandemic problems.
“I think in the next couple of weeks, China will be faced with unprecedented pressure to the health system,” Xi Chen, an associate professor at the Yale School Of Public Health, told CNBC in an interview.
Watch the video to learn more about how China’s stringent zero-Covid policies collapsed and the challenges the world’s second-largest economy faces as it moves to reopen. Source
China’s health system and crematoriums are overwhelmed as death toll rises among CCP elites; however, just as they did in the early days of the pandemic, officials have made it a challenge to assess the true story. By the regime’s account, only eight people have died from the disease since its lifting of COVID curbs in early December, but this figure is based on the their recently narrowed definition of a COVID death, which excludes all but those who die from respiratory failure and pneumonia directly associated with a COVID infection, a calculation method unseen elsewhere in the world.
The numbers depart sharply from a leaked memo from a recent high-level meeting of health officials, which estimated that 248 million people likely contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December.
The CDC, or junior CCP, also employs definition and data manipulation to push its agenda, and is one of the worst purveyors of “mis” and “dis” information on the planet.
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Dec. 16, 2022
After hiding the coronavirus outbreak and giving the world a pandemic, China has fooled the world with bogus vaccines. Made-in-China vaccines do not work and Beijing seems to be finally admitting it.
The Chinese people can now buy Pfizer’s Paxlovid online. It sold out within the hour and people are hoarding it.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/deaths-among-ccp-elites-rise-as-covid-wave-hits-china_4941364.htm
It started with a high fever, a telltale sign of COVID-19, that soon led to a positive test result. Yang Lianghua, formerly a senior reporter for the Chinese communist regime’s official mouthpiece People’s Daily and the chief editor of the newspaper’s international edition, then had to wait in the emergency room for a bed in Beijing’s top hospital, which was already beyond packed.
With intervention from the state media’s senior executives and the hospital director, Yang was eventually admitted to the intensive care unit, where he died hours later. The cause of his death was a bacterial lung infection.
Yang was one of a long list of prominent figures tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who died amid a surge in Omicron sweeping China, after the regime abruptly loosened its years-long draconian COVID-19 restrictions that had shuttered businesses, crippled China’s economy, and made it a challenge for the Chinese population to sustain their basic lives.
The abrupt U-turn in direction, however, was made without the provision of resources and policies to help the populace deal with the mounting cases of infections.
Important quote:
“Maybe you think it isn’t a big deal, but the CCP is a crime syndicate,” he told The Epoch Times, adding that the recent uptick in cases should make people reconsider their ties with the regime. “Tying one’s life with the fate of the Party will not bring you any good.” ~ Heng He, China affairs analyst
(See link for article)
Despite the surge in cases and deaths, Chinese authorities refuse to accept Western aid, which admittedly isn’t very helpful as the aid simply consists of more “vaccines,” which have been proven to be ineffective, despite the continued WHO propaganda:
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Dec. 13, 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0146280621001547?via%3Dihub
Abstract
Lyme disease is the most reported tick-borne illness in North America. Lyme carditis (LC) is an early-disseminated manifestation of Lyme disease, most commonly presenting as symptomatic high-degree atrioventricular block (AVB) which resolves with appropriate antibiotic therapy. However, long-term outcomes of treated LC have not previously been described. We present a series of 7 patients (median 28 years, 6 male) with serologically confirmed LC treated with a standard protocol developed at our center including antibiotics and pre-discharge stress test to assess AV node stability. At a mean follow-up of 20.8 months, all patients were asymptomatic, had resumed normal activities, and were free of conduction abnormalities. None required permanent pacing. Our study supports avoidance of permanent pacing for LC if conduction is stable at discharge.
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**Comment**
These patients were followed for a minimum of 12 months after hospital discharge and had no heart symptoms. The researchers state there is no protocol for ongoing monitoring of these discharged patients that that long-term follow-up should be further explored. I couldn’t agree more.
For more:
https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-herxheimer-reaction-newborn/
The Herxheimer reaction, also referred to as a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, is “a transient clinical phenomenon that occurs in patients infected by spirochetes who undergo antibiotic treatment.”¹ It was first described in patients with syphilis but has also been associated with other spirochetal infections including leptospirosis, Lyme disease, and relapsing fever. The reaction is associated with the onset of new symptoms or a worsening of existing symptoms in patients receiving antibiotic treatment.
In 2020, investigators published a case involving a 13-year-old boy with Lyme arthritis, a common manifestation of Lyme disease, who developed a Herxheimer reaction when treated with doxycycline. On the 7th day of treatment, the boy developed a low-grade fever and severe arthralgias with intense hip, ankle and cervical spine pain and myalgias.
You can read more about the 13-year-old boy’s case in an earlier blog “Herxheimer reaction in a 13-year-old boy with Lyme disease.”
Newborn with herxheimer reaction
In their article “Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction,” Prodanuk and colleagues² describe the case of a 21-day-old infant who was admitted to the hospital with decreased activity, poor feeding and abdominal distension.
The parents removed an engorged tick from the infant’s forearm 5 days earlier. An EM rash was present at the site of the tick bite.
“Given the erythema migrans lesion at the site from which the engorged tick was removed, we made a presumptive diagnosis of Lyme disease and administered IV ceftriaxone,” the authors write.
Two hours after treatment began, the infant developed a fever, tachycardia and other symptoms consistent with the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction.
Several studies, they warn, indicate “newborns with findings consistent with early localized disease may also be at higher risk for disseminated disease.”
“Given the limited data for neonates and the possible predisposition of this population to disseminated Lyme disease, clinicians should strongly consider administering IV antibiotics to target Lyme disease,” the authors suggest.
Patients can experience a broad range of symptoms resulting from a herxheimer reaction, explains Nykytyuk and colleagues, including fever, severe polyarthralgias, myalgias, chills, hypotension, nonpruritic, nonpalpable rash, tachycardia, nausea, headache, strengthening of existing or occurrence of new symptoms of the underlying disease.¹
The exact cause of Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions is still unknown. “At first, the role of an endotoxin in the development of JHR was suggested, but later experimental studies showed that spirochetes do not have biologically active endotoxins,” the authors explained.¹
What does a Lyme disease flare-up feel like?
Herxheimer reaction in a 13-year-old boy with Lyme disease
Lyme disease causes a mix of symptoms including autonomic dysfunction
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**Comment**
This infant won the lotto by having astute parents, a noticable tick bite, and EM rash. Many are not so fortunate to have these clear signs. Many also test negative. Without the signs and positive test, many are misdiagnosed and miss this opportunity for early treatment which is imperative.
For more:
Abstract
Lyme disease is an infectious tick-borne illness predominant in northeastern and midwestern United States. The clinical presentation varies significantly and only a few cases develop Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB), which makes diagnosis difficult. A 59-year-old male visiting from Michigan presented to a hospital in Florida with an ischemic stroke with aphasia and acute confusion for two days. He had imaging that noted a subacute infarct in the left parietal lobe along with multiple areas of white matter signal abnormalities and CSF serology positive for Borrelia burgdorferi IgM and IgG antibodies. The patient was placed on ceftriaxone for 30 days and showed significant clinical improvement. We present a case of ischemic stroke with hemorrhagic conversion and an incidental finding of LNB.
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**Comment**
There is no way on earth that only a few cases develop Lyme neuroborrliosis. This statement shows the researcher’s complete disconnect from reality.
Testing is so abysmal, thousands fall through the diagnostic crack. Then, if they manage to win the lottery and test positive, they are told it’s a “false positive,” and to “go home and be well.”
This patient in fact did win the lottery and managed to get diagnosed in Florida, which like all Southern states has had to fight tooth and nail to get public health to even recognize it. And that probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for infected researcher, Kerry Clark, who is finding Southern borrelia strains that will never be picked up in a million years using current CDC two-tier testing. He also showed DNA of Bbsl in Lone Star ticks which might be a bridge vector of transmission to humans, but is still considered by ‘the powers that be’ to not transmit Lyme disease. Instead, infected Southerners have been told they have STARI, a disease that looks, acts, and smells just like Lyme.
This patient, despite showing significant improvement, requires follow-up which will never happen. If and when symptoms reappear he will simply be told it’s all “in his head.”
