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Retraction to SARS-CoV-2 Article: Should Have Used Primary T Cells Instead of T-Cell Lines

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-0498-4?

Retraction Note to: SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion

Xinling Wang, Wei Xu, Gaowei Hu, Shuai Xia, Zhiping Sun, Zezhong Liu, Youhua Xie, Rong Zhang, Shibo Jiang & Lu Lu

Cellular & Molecular Immunology (2020)Cite this article

The original article was published on 07 April 2020

Retraction to: Cellular & Molecular Immunology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-020-0424-9, published online 7 April 2020

The authors have retracted this article1. After the publication of this article, it came to the authors attention that in order to support the conclusions of the study, the authors should have used primary T cells instead of T-cell lines. In addition, there are concerns that the flow cytometry methodology applied here was flawed. These points resulted in the conclusions being considered invalid.

[All authors agree with this retraction]

References

1. Wang, X., Xu, W., Hu, G. et al. SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion. Cell Mol. Immunol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-020-0424-9 (2020).

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**Comment**

Cell lines offer an easy, inexpensive and stable platform. However, they often do not fully represent what is occurring in vivo. If you want to model the complex physiological behavior, human primary cells would be the better choice.  https://www.promocell.com/in-the-lab/human-primary-cells-and-immortal-cell-lines/

Interestingly, the initial research paper that implicated how the novel coronavirus might infect white blood cells akin to HIV has been described as the splashiest article to date for the journal and only took 3 days to be accepted.  It took over two MONTHS to be retracted but continued to get noticed and shared.  Leonardo Ferreira, Molecular Immunologist and Human Genome Engineer writes:

While I applaud the openness of the authors and the editor, what kind of system is this where it takes more than 20 times longer to amend the scientific record than to publish flawed articles?  https://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/15/a-journal-took-three-days-to-accept-a-covid-19-paper-its-taken-two-months-and-counting-to-retract-it/

Ferreira brings up a valid point – especially in a time of panic and overreaching governmental sanctions based on ‘science.’  I can’t tell you how many letters of reply I’ve received back from Wisconsin politicians stating they are just ‘following the science.’  I write them back and explain they are following popular propaganda, and they need to realize there are authorities with hidden agendas using ‘science’ and even creating ‘science’ to buttress their own narrative.

I sincerely pray the public wakes up and becomes educated on this very important issue before we find ourselves locked away at home with ankle bracelets on.

Authorities are also suppressing effective treatments such as the MATH+ protocol, HCQ with zinc and azithromycin, and a viral protocol of taking vitamins A, C, D, and Iodine: 

I think this quote explains why these inexpensive treatments have been suppressed:

“Quarantines are not great to experience and certainly not popular. But they buy us — and especially the researchers working on medication and vaccination — crucial time,” the narrator assures viewers. “So if you are under quarantine, you should understand why and respect it.”  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/06/wheres-the-evidence-supporting-the-drastic-measures-against-covid-19/

Our ‘authorities’ are pushing lucrative experimental vaccines and the very expensive anti-viral, Remdesivir – both of which they have financial interests in.

Then, because he can, Fauci recently writes up a paper stating that only randomized controlled trials are reliable and that non-randomized, observations trials, are essentially wasting time.  Chris Newton explains it here:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/god-precious-randomized-control-trials-rcts-chris-newton/?

My husband and I and thousands of Lyme/MSIDS patients would be dead if it weren’t for doctors willing to treat us without those precious randomized controlled trials.  This is why doctors go to school and why ‘authorities’ like Fauci are an enemy to Lyme patients.  He and others in high places vilify doctors who treat outside the box of their acceptability – and by vilify, I mean come after their medial licenses, fine them, and often put them out of business.

I’ve posted this before, but there is a similarity in how they’ve treated COVID and Lyme:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/  In it we learn the CDC insists upon using its own tests (even when they are horribly inaccurate), treatments (even if they are cost prohibitive), vaccines,and maligns anyone who opposes this dictatorship. I’ve seen it first-hand.

What’s truly sad about this is that people are dying – from both diseases, yet the CDC cares more about owning the patents on tests, treatments, and vaccines than they do about patient care. Health dictators like Fauci would rather sit on an ivory tower directing every aspect of a disease rather than humbly ask doctors who are having success how they do it and then utilizing their life-saving protocols.  This has happened in the Lyme world for over 40 years and is now taking place with COVID.

 Time to wake up and admit our ‘authorities’ care more about profit than patients.

 

Category:

Activism, research, Viruses

Health Officials Warn Lone Star Ticks Multiplying In Connecticut

https://www.newtownbee.com/06282020/health-officials-warn-lone-star-ticks-multiplying-in-state/

Health Officials Warn Lone Star Ticks Multiplying In State

280px-Lone-star-tick-stages-cdc CDC – http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/07/researchers-trace-novel-heartland-virus-missouri-ticks Public Domain

By John Voket
Published: Jun 28, 2020

As if Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert was not busy enough handling coronavirus issues, she is now grappling with the news that the aggressive lone star tick is proliferating in the region.

Culbert, who has made tickborne disease education a hallmark of her administration, told The Newtown Bee this week that the latest news from colleague Goudarz Molaei, PhD, at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) is disturbing considering how many local residents are already suffering from related illnesses.

“The Newtown Health District is always concerned about tick bites and tick-borne disease, and news of the lone star tick becoming established in the region adds to the concern,” Culbert said. “Although our office has not yet received a lone star tick submitted to our office for identification yet this year, I am not naive enough to think that they aren’t out there.”

Review Connecticut’s latest information about the lone star tick by CLICKING HERE  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Key Quote:  

Previously limited to the southeastern US, lone star ticks have been detected in areas with no previous record of activity….

And that includes Wisconsin:

Excerpt:

….he diagnoses approximately 1 patient per month with Alpha-gal allergy and that the reactions can be severe, from passing out to life-threatening reactions.

The lone star tick is an aggressive biter that gives highly irritating bites.  It’s known to transmit:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Category:

Activism, Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, Ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ticks, Transmission, Tularemia, Viruses

5G Technology and Induction of Coronavirus in Skin Cells

This paper has been silently removed.  Please see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/26/paper-claiming-5g-induces-coronavirus-in-skin-cells-silently-removed/

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668870/ 

2020 Jul 16;34(4).

doi: 10.23812/20-269-E-4.Online ahead of print.

5G Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells

M Fioranelli 1, A Sepehri 1, M G Roccia 1, M Jafferany 2, O Y Olisova 3, K M Lomonosov 3, T Lotti 1 3

PMID: 32668870

DOI: 10.23812/20-269-E-4

Abstract

In this research, we show that 5G millimeter waves could be absorbed by dermatologic cells acting like antennas, transferred to other cells and play the main role in producing Coronaviruses in biological cells. DNA is built from charged electrons and atoms and has an inductor-like structure. This structure could be divided into linear, toroid and round inductors. Inductors interact with external electromagnetic waves, move and produce some extra waves within the cells. The shapes of these waves are similar to shapes of hexagonal and pentagonal bases of their DNA source. These waves produce some holes in liquids within the nucleus. To fill these holes, some extra hexagonal and pentagonal bases are produced. These bases could join to each other and form virus-like structures such as Coronavirus. To produce these viruses within a cell, it is necessary that the wavelength of external waves be shorter than the size of the cell. Thus 5G millimeter waves could be good candidates for applying in constructing virus-like structures such as Coronaviruses (COVID-19) within cells.

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**Comment**

Please know that 5G first rolled out in Wuhan China.  Within the month they had their first case of COVID-19.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/25/coronavirus-science-policy-politics-5g/

Excerpt:

RF radiation and COVID-19 cause similar disease. In my last newsletter (“Is the Sky Really Falling?”), I noted some effects of COVID-19 that are similar to effects of radio waves. The list of effects in common has grown, and includes:

  • headaches
  • dizziness
  • nausea
  • digestive problems
  • muscle pain
  • tachycardia
  • hypotension
  • cardiac arrhythmias
  • strokes
  • seizures

As many as two-thirds of people who test positive for COVID-19 have lost their sense of smell, often without any other symptoms. Patients are presenting with mental confusion, without any respiratory symptoms at all. Patients are presenting with diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. When patients with any of these symptoms test positive for the coronavirus, their illnesses are being attributed to that virus. But these are all classic symptoms of radio wave sickness.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/31/how-surveillance-5g-are-being-fast-tracked-under-the-pretext-of-fighting-coronavirus-study-showing-risks-to-health/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/13/despite-lack-of-studies-safety-standards-relaxed-ahead-of-5g-emf-health-effects-survey-shows-health-harm-rat-study-shows-microwaves-cause-brain-permeability/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/01/protect-our-health-environment-from-5g-calamity-eht-submitted-science-on-the-health-effects-of-5g-on-human-body/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/06/evidence-of-5g-health-effects-mounts/

Category:

research, Viruses

The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics

https://mises.org/wire/covid-19-panic-shows-us-why-science-needs-skeptics

The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics

science covid skepticism

07/15/2020

The dumpster fire of COVID predictions has shown exactly why it’s important to sustain and nurture skeptics, lest we blunder into scientific monoculture and groupthink. And yet the explosion of “cancel culture” intolerance of any opinion that doesn’t fit a shrinking “3 x 5 card” of right-think risks destroying the very tolerance and science that sustains our civilization.

Since World War II, America has suffered two respiratory pandemics comparable to COVID-19: the 1958 “Asian flu,” then the 1969 “Hong Kong flu.” In neither case did we shut down the economy—people were simply more careful. Not all that careful, of course—Jimi Hendrix was playing at Woodstock in the middle of the 1969 pandemic, and social distancing wasn’t really a thing in the “Summer of Love.”

And yet COVID-19 was very different thanks to a single “buggy mess” of a computer prediction from one Neil Ferguson, a British epidemiologist given to hysterical overestimates of deaths, from mad cow to bird flu to H1N1.

For COVID-19, Ferguson predicted 3 million deaths in America unless we basically shut down the economy. Panicked policymakers took his prediction as gospel, dressed as it was in the cloak of science.

Now, long after governments plunged half the world into a Great Depression, those panicked revisions are being quietly revised down by an order of magnitude, now suggesting a final tally comparable to 1958 and 1969. (See link for article)

Peter St. Onge is the senior economist at the Montreal Economic Institute. He blogs at Profits of Chaos.

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**Comment**

Great read and great reminder.  You know you are in the wrong place when your mind is closed off to new discoveries.  This is quite evident in the Lyme world – where ‘authorities’ are quite happy to name-call those they disagree with ‘quacks’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’ and refuse to keep an open mind on science that is continuously evolving.  

Key quotes:

It’s comforting to know that our problems are old ones, and also encouraging that our solution is both time-tested and simple: transparency and tolerance.

This implies there is no such thing as “settled science”—the phrase itself is contrary to the scientific method.

The history of Lyme, and now COVID-19 is a history riddled with conflicts of interest, closed-door meetings, and rigged science designed to yield a pre-determined outcome.

Another reminder: the same people behind the Lyme fiasco are also behind the COVID fiasco.  Do not trust these people.  Do your own reading, talk to those with experience, and trust the body’s innate ability to heal itself.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Viruses

Asymptomatic Measles Common in Adults and Children, but Not Related to Illness

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12237431/

. 2002 Oct;83(Pt 10):2485-2488.

doi: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-10-2485.

Detection of measles virus genome in bone-marrow aspirates from adults

Satomi Sonoda 1 2, Mitsuo Kitahara 3, Tetsuo Nakayama 1

Erratum in

  • J Gen Virol 2002 Dec;83(Pt 12):3205

Abstract

We investigated the presence of the measles virus genome in order to identify asymptomatic infections in the adult population. Bone-marrow aspirates were obtained from 179 patients, 20-96 years of age, for the diagnosis of malignant diseases (29 with malignant lymphoma, 28 with acute leukaemia, 21 with myelodysplastic syndrome, five with multiple myeloma and 96 with other diseases). The measles virus genome was detected in 17 (9.5%) of 179 individuals by RT-PCR and 28 (15.6%) through hybridization. The genomes detected in bone marrow were all in the same cluster, D5, the strain circulating during the study period, and no evidence of persistent infection was obtained. We conclude that asymptomatic infections of measles virus are common in adults and the presence of the measles virus genome would not be related to the pathogenesis of illness.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11536248/

. 2001 Oct;65(2):381-7.

doi: 10.1002/jmv.2045.

Detection of measles virus genome in lymphocytes from asymptomatic healthy children

S Sonoda 1, T Nakayama

Abstract

A total of 342 samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were obtained from 145 healthy individuals, which we examined for the presence of measles virus genome RNA by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), to identify whether asymptomatic infection of measles virus has occurred in healthy children. Measles virus genome was detected in 11 (23.4%) of 47 nonimmunized individuals; all positives for RT-PCR were infants who experienced measles exposure. No genome was detected in those without measles exposure. In 83 individuals immunized with measles vaccine, the vaccine strain genome was detected in 10 (71.4%) of 14 recipients whose PBMC were obtained within 2 months of vaccination. Measles wild-type genome was detected in 36 (46.2%) of 78 individuals, 40 (25.2%) of 159 samples, who had been immunized more than 2 months before. The wild-type measles genome was also detected in 6 (46.2%) of 13 individuals who had been infected with measles in the distant past. The measles PCR-positive rate was not related to the period since immunization or natural infection. Sequence analysis of PCR products demonstrated they were all in the same cluster of D5 lineage, which was the circulating strain during the study period. We obtained 13 samples of nasopharyngeal secretion (NPS) simultaneously from individuals whose PBMC were positive for measles PCR but did not detect virus genome. Measles genome was, however, detected from NPS in cases of acute infection. We conclude that asymptomatic measles infection is common but would rarely become a source of transmission because of negative PCR in NPS.

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**Comment**

Hopefully you can see where I’m going with this.  Just because you have the presence of a virus in your body does NOT mean you will become ill.  COVID-19 is no different – and they have only identified “virus-like” particles, not the actual purified virus.

Category:

Testing, Viruses