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Polly Interviews Mary Holland, CHD Attorney | Vaxxed TV

Learn about viral interference, mandated vaccines, & the global state of affairs. There is hope: “We’re starting to make progress!”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126676/

Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017–2018 influenza season

Greg G. Wolff
 
 

Abstract

Purpose

Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference. Test-negative study designs are often utilized to calculate influenza vaccine effectiveness. The virus interference phenomenon goes against the basic assumption of the test-negative vaccine effectiveness study that vaccination does not change the risk of infection with other respiratory illness, thus potentially biasing vaccine effectiveness results in the positive direction. This study aimed to investigate virus interference by comparing respiratory virus status among Department of Defense personnel based on their influenza vaccination status. Furthermore, individual respiratory viruses and their association with influenza vaccination were examined.

Results

We compared vaccination status of 2880 people with non-influenza respiratory viruses to 3240 people with pan-negative results. Comparing vaccinated to non-vaccinated patients, the adjusted odds ratio for non-flu viruses was 0.97 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.86, 1.09; p = 0.60). Additionally, the vaccination status of 3349 cases of influenza were compared to three different control groups: all controls (N = 6120), non-influenza positive controls (N = 2880), and pan-negative controls (N = 3240). The adjusted ORs for the comparisons among the three control groups did not vary much (range: 0.46–0.51).

Conclusions

Receipt of influenza vaccination was not associated with virus interference among our population. Examining virus interference by specific respiratory viruses showed mixed results. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus; however, significant protection with vaccination was associated not only with most influenza viruses, but also parainfluenza, RSV, and non-influenza virus coinfections.Keywords: Influenza vaccine, Virus interference, Department of Defense, Respiratory illnessAbbreviations: DoD, Department of Defense; DoDGRS, The Department of Defense Global Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Program; GEIS, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System; DHA/AFHSB, AF, The Defense Health Agency/Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Air Force Satellite Cell; USAFSAM, United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine; LRMC, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center; RSV, Respiratory Syncytial Virus; AFCITA, Air Force Complete Immunization Tracking Application; OR, Odds Ratio; 95% CI, 95% Confidence IntervalGo to:

1. Introduction

The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, which contributed to an estimated 50 million deaths worldwide, stimulated interest in influenza vaccine research [1]. Twenty years after the pandemic began, the first influenza vaccine was administered to US soldiers in 1938 [1]. From the 2010–2011 influenza season to the 2017–2018 season, excluding for the 2014–2015 season, the influenza vaccine was shown to be effective at reducing the burden of seasonal influenza in the United States [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].

While influenza vaccination offers protection against influenza, natural influenza infection may reduce the risk of non-influenza respiratory viruses by providing temporary, non-specific immunity against these viruses [7], [8]. On the other hand, recently published studies have described the phenomenon of vaccine-associated virus interference; that is, vaccinated individuals may be at increased risk for other respiratory viruses because they do not receive the non-specific immunity associated with natural infection [7], [8], [9], [10]. There has been limited evidence that the influenza vaccine may actually be associated with the virus interference process [8], [11]. Other studies have found no association between influenza vaccination and increased respiratory virus risk [10], [12].

The purpose of this study is to add to the general knowledge of influenza vaccine-related virus interference by comparing rates of non-influenza respiratory viruses to negative laboratory tests, and comparing vaccination status of influenza positive cases to controls among Department of Defense (DoD) personnel. The DoD provides a unique population for vaccination studies as mandatory vaccination against influenza is required by the DoD for all Active Duty and Reserve Component personnel [13]. This study aims to examine the relationship between specific respiratory viruses and influenza vaccination. The protocol for this study was reviewed and approved as exempt by the Air Force Research Laboratory Institutional Review Board.Go to:

2. Materials and methods

The Department of Defense Global Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Program (DoDGRS) is a DoD-wide program established by the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS). The program was founded in 1997 as an influenza-only surveillance program. In the 2013–2014 influenza season the program added respiratory Film Array for flu negative samples and began identifying other respiratory pathogens. Starting in the 2017–2018 influenza season, the program added Luminex Film Array capabilities to test for respiratory pathogens, and became known as DoDGRS. The Defense Health Agency/Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch – Air Force Satellite Cell (DHA/AFHSB – AF) and United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) manage the surveillance program that includes global surveillance among DoD beneficiaries at 79 sentinel sites (including deployed locations) and many non-sentinel sites. Laboratory testing completed at USAFSAM and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) included multiplex PCR respiratory pathogen panels (including: adenovirus, Chlmydia pneumoniae, coronavirus, human bocavirus, human metapnumovirus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rhinovirus/enterovirus, and co-infections) [14], [15], viral culture detecting influenza and other respiratory viruses, and influenza A/B subtyping via PCR [16], [17]. Vaccination status was derived from both the Air Force Complete Immunization Tracking Application (AFCITA), a United States Air Force database containing vaccination-related data, and from surveys given to those submitting respiratory samples. If the patient had an influenza vaccination record in AFCITA for the 2017–2018 influenza season, or answered yes to being vaccinated during the season on their survey, they were identified as vaccinated. Patients who were not vaccinated for the season or who were vaccinated less than 14 days prior to specimen submittal were classified as unvaccinated.

All people submitting a respiratory specimen to the DoDGRS for the 2017–2018 influenza season were eligible for the study. The influenza season began 1 October 2017 and ended 29 September 2018. Those who submitted a sample and only tested positive for Chlamydia pneumoniae and/or Mycoplasma pneumoniae were excluded because these illnesses are bacteriological in nature, not viral. People with influenza and non-influenza coinfections were excluded because they could not be uniquely classified as either influenza or non-influenza respiratory virus. Individuals with multiple specimens collected during the season were also removed from the study as they could have had multiple different viruses over the season. Specimens where neither vaccination status could be obtained via databases nor a questionnaire was completed were excluded because vaccination status could not be confirmed. Subjects who were ill before receiving vaccination were excluded as vaccination status would therefore be unrelated to illness. Lastly, those people for whom the laboratory rejected the specimen were not included in the final study population.

Data management and statistical analyses were conducted using SAS 9.4 and SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC). Basic descriptive epidemiology was utilized to obtain counts and rates of outcomes by sex, military beneficiary category, age group, disease status, seasonality of illness, and vaccination status. In order to determine if virus interference was associated with influenza vaccination in the military beneficiary population, odds ratios and confidence intervals were calculated utilizing conditional logistic regression to compare vaccination status from two analyses. First, those with a viral respiratory illness other than influenza were compared to those with no pathogen detected (pan-negative). Next influenza positive cases were compared to three different control groups. The first control group was comprised of all controls, specifically, individuals testing negative for flu or positive for any respiratory virus other than flu. The second control group consisted of only those who were positive for respiratory viruses other than influenza. Lastly, pan-negative controls were compared to influenza cases. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios were calculated for the overall population, the population with AFCITA records only, and the active duty only population during the influenza season for the comparison of other respiratory illnesses to pan-negatives, as well as all three case-control comparisons. Adjusted odds ratios were calculated after modeling variables in a nested logistic regression, keeping all variables with p < 0.20 and then adding them to a full logistic model. In the full logistic model, only variables that remained significant were included in the final adjusted model. Age group remained significant in the overall population; age group and seasonality remained significant in the AFCITA confirmed vaccination group and the Active Duty population; and gender, age group, and seasonality all remained significant in all three of the case-control comparisons. Those respective variables that remained significant were included in the adjustment for the odds ratio for the total season. Individual respiratory virus outcomes were also examined and stratified by vaccination status. Odds ratios, confidence intervals, and p-values were calculated to determine if individual respiratory viruses were associated with influenza vaccination.Go to:

3. Results

For the 2017–2018 influenza season, 4041 out of 11,943 specimens tested positive for influenza (33.8%) (Data not shown). There were 3869 specimens identified as other respiratory pathogens (32.4%). The remaining 4033 specimens resulted as negative (33.8%) (Data not shown). Of the 11,943 specimens, 2474 (20.7%) specimens were excluded from our population based on the exclusionary criteria described in the Methods section, leaving a final study population of 9469 unique people (Data not shown). The study population was predominantly male, Active Duty service members, aged 18–35 years old (Table 1, Table 2 ). A majority of the study population was vaccinated (Table 1, Table 2). Most respiratory specimens were analyzed during the winter (December, January, and February) months (Table 1, Table 2).

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Abraham-Hicks Daily Quote – October 23, 2020

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Other’s Opinions Are Less Important Than My Personal Guidance System… You did not intend to use the opinions of your parents to measure against your beliefs, desires, or actions in order to determine the appropriateness of them. Instead, you knew (and still remembered, long after you were born) that it was the relationship between the opinion (or knowledge) of the Source within you and your current thoughts, in any moment, that would offer you perfect guidance in the form of emotions. You did not intend to replace your Emotional Guidance System with the opinions of your parents even if they were in harmony with their Emotional Guidance System in the moment of their trying to guide you. It was much more important to you to recognize the existence of your own Guidance System, and to utilize it, than to be deemed correct by, or to find approval from, others. Excerpted from The Vortex on 8/31/09 Our Love
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It’s About Your Voting Fetish – By L. Reichard WhiteLewRockwell.com

– – – the good news and bad news are both the same: Your vote will make absolutely no difference at all in the outcome of the upcoming U.S. national elections ritual.

That’s good news because you can’t reasonably be blamed for what happens after the ritual. It’s only bad news if you’ve been suffering the delusion that your vote matters.

OK, it does matter, but only to you.

But there’s more bad news in that: you may indeed blame yourself for what happens next, and if you vote, maybe you should. As the aphorism goes, “A vote for any candidate is a vote for The System.”

Do you like The System?

And surprisingly, not only don’t the majority of us Central North American residents like The System — that System being “our democracy” which “only 15% say is working extremely or very well” — but “we” also see both Trump and Biden as mentally unfit to be president. Clearly that’s a choice between “the lesser of two evils.”

And casting your powerless vote, especially if it’s for the lesser evil – – – well, it matters to you in a way you may not have considered before. Like this – – –

… participation [in the electoral process] is an instrument of conquest because it encourages people to give their consent to being governed by the state. Stemming from a sense of fair play deeply embedded in the human psyche, people generally obey the principle that those who play the game accept the outcome. …Therefore, to no ones surprise, politicians plead with everyone to get out and vote … Even though it is minimal participation, it is sufficient to commit all voters to being governed, regardless of who wins.

This scheme of politics is remarkably ingenious in the way it exploits the natural inclination of humans toward fair play, loyalty and cooperation in process of subjecting them to conquest. This kind of subjugation of the masses is no recent discovery. Etienne de la Boetie described this phenomenon as ‘Voluntary Servitude’ over two hundred years ago, well before the mystique of majority rule became the subliminal message in sophisticated, saturation propaganda campaigns instrumented by a mass communication media. – Alvin Lowi, Jr., originally for Economic.net

And so you spend maybe half-an-hour voluntarily casting your vote for your own servitude and then the psychopaths and liars you elect — and the special interests which can afford huge campaign bribes and at least one lobbyist to control them — take over for the next four years or so.

But now since you know your vote absolutely won’t make any difference to anyone but you, you no longer have to vote for the “lesser of two evils.” Even if you write-in “Bugs Bunny” or “Megatron” it won’t change a thing. Except, maybe, how you feel about yourself.

You could even vote Libertarian!

Before the forces of evil and stupidity gained serious success in converting the mostly benign Republic the founders crafted for us into the inevitably corrupt winner-takes-all bogus democracy it’s evolved into, voting was, for the most part, safely irrelevant. Like this – – –

If the law were confined to its proper functions, everyone’s interest in the law would be the same. Is it not clear that, under these circumstances, those who voted could not inconvenience those who did not vote? –Frederick Bastiat, The Law

So, when done right — that is with the government “confined to it’s proper functions” — voting really doesn’t matter because whoever wins, the political minions stay under control. There’s no coercive winner-takes-all democracy — using “it’s what the people want” as the bogus excuse — to “inconvenience” us with 40,000 new laws every year — and bogusly stick us with the escalating tax bill. Or to stick the kids, grand kids and the yet unborn with the so-called “national debt” and the costs of Social “Security” and Medicare.

Intergenerational warfare anyone?

As Mark Twain warned well over 100 years ago, “No man’s life, liberty or porperty are safe while the legislature is in session.” Have our elected liars and psychopaths gotten more honest and trustworthy since?

And let’s face it, as one of my really sharp friends explained to his wife, “We don’t know enough to even allow any of these politicians alone in our home let alone trust them with the kids, our credit-cards — and nukes.”

The founders warned us against democracy and we’ve clearly forgotten. The bottom line is that in a democracy — as opposed to the Republic many of us pledged allegiance to — voting is a scheme to fool you into thinking you have something to say about what’s being done to you. And to your kids, grand kids and the yet unborn. And into going along with it.

On the bright-side, the majority of us act as if we know voting these days is an unsavory activity that supports The System.

You can tell because The U.S. League of Non-Voters wins every election. In fact, except for the U.S. Presidential Election now and then, The League wins every race with more non-votes than the sum-total of all votes cast for all the candidates in each race.

So, if you want to be sure to be in the real majority, now you know what to do – – – or what not to do.

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Source: It’s About Your Voting Fetish – LewRockwell

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Live w: Dr. Northrup: exposing the truth | Jason Shurka

Well… since “they” shut down our live stream on YT, here is the full video from the Instagram live show! In this video, Dr. Northrup & I expose certain truths that have been suppressed and censored from the public domain. Enjoy 🙂

 

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Covid-19: EXPOSED (trailer) | Oct. 26 10 EST | Jason Shurka

It will premiere LIVE on my YouTube channel (Jason Shurka) on October 26th at 10AM EST!

The video will be available on YouTube, bitchute & my website (jasonshurka.com).

In order to navigate through the censorship, I ask you all to SHARE this video and spread the word of the release of this film before the video is censored and/or deleted!

I look forward to sharing truth with the world! 🙏🏽🌎💜

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Covid-19: EXPOSED (trailer)

IT’S OFFICIAL!

“Covid-19: EXPOSED” will be released to the world for millions to watch on October 26th at 10AM EST!

It is a short 30-minute film in which the world-renowned pediatrician, Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, reveals the scientifically-backed TRUTH regarding the coronavirus.

In order to navigate through the censorship, I ask you all to SHARE this video and spread the word of the release date before the video is censored and/or deleted!

The film will be available to watch on my Instagram & YouTube among other platforms!

“Covid-19: EXPOSED”

The truth must be heard…

COMING SOON!!!

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Revisiting Hydroxychloroquine | The American Conservative

There is substantial evidence to suggest that the drug is effective in treating Covid-19. Why are we not trying it?

By C. Boyden Gray

More than six months have passed since the president first tweeted about hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for Covid-19. Since then, some studies have claimed that it works, and others not. But one thing we have learned unequivocally about hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 is that CNN, TheNew York Times, TheWashington Post, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the editor of TheLancet don’t want you to take it.

In fact, they would prefer that you not even talk about it. The less you know about it, the better. And they have felt this way consistently since the start of the pandemic, when there were hardly any studies to parse. To even call this situation a “debate” is a stretch, because the forces opposed to the drug’s use for Covid-19 haven’t debated, but rather have tried to shut down any journalist, doctor, or researcher armed with different data.

Hydroxychloroquine, a 70-year-old malaria drug that is also regularly used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, is inexpensive and has an excellent safety profile. It has been used to treat over two billion people. Before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended that adults and children of any age could take it safely, including pregnant women and nursing mothers.

In March, the strongest evidence in favor of its use and efficacy for Covid-19 came from Marseille, from a small observational study conducted by the French epidemiologist Dr. Didier Raoult. In this and his own larger follow-up trials, Dr. Raoult has claimed success in treating Covid-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, when used in combination with antibiotics.

Based on this information, pharmaceutical companies donated millions of doses to the government, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization, making the donated drugs available to hospitalized Covid-19 patients.

At the end of June and in early July, larger studies were published by the Mount Sinai Health System in New York and the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, both of which demonstrated that the anti-malarial drug cut the mortality rate for Covid-19 sufferers in half. In particular, the Henry Ford paper argued that the drug should be administered early in the disease progression in order to be effective.

The press reaction to these studies has ranged from the dismissive to the outright hostile. In May, The New York Times Magazine ran a nearly 8,000-word feature attacking Dr. Raoult personally. Neither CNN, nor TheNew York Times, nor TheWashington Post has even mentioned the Mount Sinai trial.

With respect to the Henry Ford study, the vitriol has been so great that, a month after they published, the hospital system issued an open letter announcing that they would no longer comment publically on their own research. As the Henry Ford doctors explained, “the political climate that has persisted has made any objective discussion about this drug impossible.”

But this is only half of the picture. In April, the editor of the British medical journal The Lancettweeted that it was the duty of “every scientist, every healthcare worker, every citizen” to “resist and rebel” against Trump. Then, on May 22, The Lancet published a massive study of some 96,000 Covid-19 patients, claiming that hydroxychloroquine not only didn’t help them, but that it actually caused harm. Namely, it argued that the drug “was associated with an increase in the risk of ventricular arrhythmias and a greater hazard for in-hospital death with COVID-19.”

The press went into overtime disseminating these findings. One physician told The Washington Post, “If there was ever hope for this drug, this is the death of it,” and Dr. Fauci declared on CNN, “the scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy.” The science appeared to be settled.

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Source: Revisiting Hydroxychloroquine | The American Conservative