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Wow, that's brazen!

1) It is extremely unlikely without engineering the virus. 2) It would make vaccine development even more critical. If the body already has an adaptive immune response to the virus, it will have a much easier time.

On what time frame though? I mean it is likely they are going to repeat all the mistakes and irrelevant avenues that have been made with ME/CFS research first.

~90% effective in whom? Efficacy figures that aren't based on randomised clinical trials and where there are significant differences in demographics aren't comparable (for example claims that the AZ vaccine has over 70%+ efficacy against symptomatic disease, when those subgroups where that was...

I can't help but feel upset too, after being dismissed and ignored for so long. But it's almost as if they're simply feeling guilty that they didn't bother taking the initial actions that other countries did (e.g. Australia, NZ, Taiwan, Thailand) and continued to insist that young people will...

No, but the real source isn't much better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut

Has anyone managed to read the full manuscript of this yet?

I was actually suggesting more of the former (afferent stimulation) than the latter. But low resting heart rate can be due to elevated parasympathetic activation of the vagus nerve innervating the sinoatrial node (the 'pacemaker') (though there is obviously a balance between parasympathetic and...

If anyone dies as a result of this, I'm sure it will be remembered for a long time...

No, they've been warning such people to inform their healthcare providers and only be vaccinated in places where a quick medical response to an anaphylactic reaction is likely.

If handgrip strength is reduced on the second day, it strongly suggests central fatigue due to reduced cortical excitability. Which in turn is usually due to inhibition due to feedback from muscle afferents or reduced adrenergic drive.

The benefit really depends on what your risk of contracting the virus in the first place. If it is circulating significantly in your community (by that I mean people are contracting it in public from unknown contacts) then a vaccine dose usually outweighs the risks.

I fixed that quote for you.

Yes, most people don't turn up in a pain clinic until they have severe unmanageable pain, usually at their wits end after trying everything obvious. "Pain neuroscience education" is unlikely to be effective beyond inducing the usual uncontrolled response biases on questionnaires that fool...

Yes, it can, the "original antigenic sin", or Hoskins effect. If the circulating antibodies still work to prevent sufficient activity in germinal centres (despite poorer neutralising ability), then the major result of a subsequent vaccine will simply be as a 'booster', eg clonal expansion of...

The author is missing the forest for the trees (as is easy to do as stated in the article). Any vaccine in your arm might have short-term benefit if the virus is currently circulating (which it is not in Australia), but the long term benefit is based on preventing spread and preventing disease...

My opinion is that you need BOTH objective evidence (to demonstrate impaired functioning) and subjective self-reports...

Yes, so many of our stories don't fit his narrative at all. I was a child/teenager who had never even heard of it (or CFS!). I refused diagnoses for several years, with a strong expectation that my body was going to spontaneously recover! (children have minimal concept of chronic illness - I...

Example of his COVID-19 research: https://covid19.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/jonas-f-ludvigsson "Children are unlikely to be the main drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic – A systematic review" "Systematic review of COVID-19 in children shows milder cases and a better prognosis than adults"

The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test is a nonparametric test (does not assume parameterised statistical distributions). The figure does show higher viral load (log10cpm), but the Wilcoxon Ranked Test figure still shows largely overlapping distributions. The difference might still indicate something about...