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   >>  From September 2021, when the booster vaccination programme started in   
   >> England, higher vaccination rates of elderly residents do not seem to   
   >> have led to any reduction in deaths. Based on these results, vaccination   
   >> is unlikely to have been responsible for the sustained fall in   
   >> COVID-related deaths.   
   >>   
   >> Why then did Europe and the US experience large reductions in COVID   
   >> deaths since 2021, even during times when infection rates have soared?   
   >>   
   >> There are two explanations. The first is the growth of variants such as   
   >> omicron that, although highly infectious, are less deadly than variants   
   >> responsible for the early waves.   
   >>   
   >> Second, is the rise in the cumulative number of people who gained   
   >> protection from having had previous infections.   
   >>   
   >> These explanations are consistent with the experience of places such as   
   >> Hong Kong, New Zealand and Taiwan. All saw relatively low COVID   
   >> infections and deaths in 2020, meaning only limited levels of natural   
   >> immunity had been built up. All then experienced high mortality rates   
   >> during 2022, well after most people in those places had been vaccinated.   
   >>   
   >> For example, the seven-day average mortality rate in Hong Kong reached   
   >> 40 deaths per million in March 2022, a rate far above the highest peak   
   >> seen in the US during the whole pandemic despite cumulative vaccination   
   >> rates at that time being similar.   
   >>   
   >> Even though vaccination probably reduced care home deaths by a small   
   >> amount in the early rollout period, there is little evidence that the   
   >> booster programme had any significant effect on COVID-related deaths.   
   >   
   > In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of   
   > GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's   
   > secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps   
   > us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne   
   > pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being   
   > 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**   
   > appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the   
   > COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by   
   > rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given   
   > moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly   
   > contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to   
   > "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and   
   > self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.   
   > Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case   
   > scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,   
   > Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations   
   > combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"   
   > that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no   
   > longer effective.   
   >   
   > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (   
   > https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ   
   > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.   
   >   
   > So how are you ?   
   >   
       I am wonderfully hungry!   
      
      
     Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)