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How many people have died from Covid-19? We may never know

How many people have died from Covid-19? We may never know Analysis by  Zachary B. Wolf , CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/politics/covid-19-deaths-what-matters/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20210904122014/https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/04/politics/covid-19-deaths-what-matters/index.html

Covid 19 false positives

 Remember that positive predictive value (PPV) varies with disease prevalence when interpreting results from diagnostic tests. PPV is the percent of positive test results that are true positives. As disease prevalence decreases, the percent of test results that are false positives increase. For example, a test with 98% specificity would have a PPV of just over 80% in a population with 10% prevalence, meaning 20 out of 100 positive results would be false positives. The same test would only have a PPV of approximately 30% in a population with 1% prevalence, meaning 70 out of 100 positive results would be false positives.  This means that, in a population with 1% prevalence, only 30% of individuals with positive test results actually have the disease. At 0.1% prevalence, the PPV would only be 4%, meaning that 96 out of 100 positive results would be false positives. Health care providers should take the local prevalence into consideration when interpreting diagnostic test results....

comparing DNA and RNA viruses and RNA vaccines including mRNA vaccines

 comparing DNA and RNA viruses and RNA vaccines including mRNA vaccines The inside of a RNA virus is RNA which is used in the host cell it (invades?) or infects to create the outside of the virus which is a protein shell as well as more copies of the inside which is virus RNA A mRNA vaccine uses RNA to make the cell create at least a section of a virus protein shell Both RNA vaccines and virus RNA use cells to produce sections of virus protein shells Both the inside of a RNA virus and RNA vaccines are RNA After receiving a RNA vaccine or a RNA virus in both cases the recipient will have the RNA to code for a section of a viral protein shell in them and will have sections of viral protein shells in them being manufactured by the RNA they have received from a outside/foreign source Certain sections of RNA sequences and certain sections of DNA sequences code for uniquely specific proteins to be assembled.  If there is only one unique RNA sequence for one unique protein then for a...

Covid 19 not on recommended adult immunization schedule outside of "emergency use authorization" or "biological license application"

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Covid 19 not on recommended adult immunization schedule outside of "emergency use authorization" or "biological license application" recommended adult immunization schedule CDC adult combined schedule pdf Covid 19 vaccines are not on the first page of the pamphlet with the main chart or any of the tables (Tables 1&2) but only in a minor side comment which does not mention authorization except under "emergency use authorization" or "biological license application" http://web.archive.org/web/20211008190328/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/adult/adult-combined-schedule.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/covid-19.html http://web.archive.org/web/*/cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/covid-19.html https://duckduckgo.com/?q=biological+license+application&ia=about

NIH Removes Language on ‘Gain-of-Function’ From Website Amid Criticism Over Funding Chinese Research

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Confirmed.  You get redirected to a different article with a changed heading https://thefallingdarkness.com/nih-removes-language-on-gain-of-function-from-website-amid-criticism-over-funding-chinese-research/ http://web.archive.org/web/20211029131356/http://thefallingdarkness.com/nih-removes-language-on-gain-of-function-from-website-amid-criticism-over-funding-chinese-research/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211019065407/https://www.nih.gov/news-events/gain-function-research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.nih.gov/news-events/gain-function-research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens https://web.archive.org/web/20211022204414/https://www.nih.gov/news-events/gain-function-research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens https://web.archive.org/web/20211023003610/https://www.nih.gov/news-events/research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens

Corona viruses exist but COVID 19 does not exist beyond a shadow of reasonable doubt

Corona viruses exist but COVID 19 does not exist beyond a shadow of reasonable doubt COVID-19 (previously known as “2019 novel coronavirus”) http://web.archive.org/web/20200224144153/who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it "COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a new coronavirus discovered in 2019" http://web.archive.org/web/20200623090859/cdc.gov/dotw/covid-19/index.html You can remember what COVID 19 means by the acronym Corona Virus IDentified 2019.  The word novel means new.  All COVID 19 viruses are corona viruses but not all corona viruses are COVID 19 viruses.  A corona virus can only be a COVID 19 virus if it was newly discovered in 2019 therefore if someone gets a corona virus of a type that was discovered before 2019 they did not get COVID 19.   If it is determined that someone got a corona virus but it is not determined if the stra...

Summary of previous posts

Summary of key points in posts so far  More information and links are provided in these posts along with screenshots for sources and additional info for how to get pdf from official instituitions or government websites when applicable  _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.2. Self-Amplifying mRNA Vaccines A self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccine structurally resembles the non-amplifying RNA vaccine. However, unlike the non-amplifying mRNA vaccine that only encodes genes of interest for antigen expression, saRNA-based vaccine contains additional genes encoding the viral RNA replication machinery for extended duration and magnitude of antigen production even with a minimal dose of RNA required http://web.archive.org/web/20220310211202/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8877136/ https://covidcontraindications.blogspot.com/2023/02/self-amplifying-mrna-vaccines.html _______________________________________________...