Mycoplasma Links Part 1

Topical on China's Mycoplasma epidemic (possibly America too)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03732-w

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/24851455/desperate-parents-children-hospital-chinas-mystery-pneumonia-outbreak/

Research links and discussion on mouthwash, gargling and SARS-COV-2 prevention

Senator Ron Johnson is taking quite a bit of flack over his remarks on mouthwash and SARS-CoV-2 prohibition. It is worth noting that Japan (which has a very low Covid19 death rate[1]) has a long history of gargling  povidone iodine (PVP-I) to prevent respiratory infections[2]. Some American physicians are also suggesting gargling could be helpful [3] especially for school children. Molecular iodine and other anti-septic mouthwashes are in use as SARS-COV-2 prohibition in dental practices across the US [4].  'Disrupting SARS-CoV-2 transmission' with mouthwash has been and is being actively studied at Dental schools and other research institutions across the US.[5] 

First Month of Pediatric Covid Vaccination: Some select 'SYMPTOM_TEXT' stories and some stats

These are some select stories from the first month of Pediatric vaccinations in the US. There is a select group of syncope (fainting or 'loss of consciousness') in the little ones.

PRO TIP: Stay right by your kid before and after the vax. Vaccinate one kid at a time if possible. If they faint, don't let them fall and hit their head on the floor. Because then you have the child head injury on top of the child vaccine injury.  The HCW who are administering the pediatric injections are having some trouble confusing adult with pediatric dosing. Many kids are getting adult doses and adult saline preparation doses, among other administration errors. This doesn't seem to result in too much (immediate) injury. I guess. Maybe.

Full spreadsheet here and code here and here.  *Read the code first* if you don't understand my output or what I have done. All the paragraphs immediately below are separate AE ('Adverse Event') reports. 

Some critical markers, data, charts for 10/08/2021 VAERS DB report

 Click to enlarge charts and graphs.  All my data analysis removes duplicate VAERS_ID. The table directly below uses the 'symptom fields' for the term greps. Various symptoms, fatality, age, gender and other markers have missing or inappropriate fields in some of the data. The missing/inappropriate data is ignored. Code:

• HeaderCode.with.Analysis.r
• CriticalMarkers.r

Some critical markers, data, charts for 09/24/2021 VAERS DB report

Click to enlarge charts and graphs.  All my data analysis removes duplicate VAERS_ID. The table directly below uses the 'symptom fields' for the term greps. Various symptoms, fatality, age, gender and other markers have missing or inappropriate fields in some of the data. The missing/inappropriate data is ignored. Code:

• HeaderCode.with.Analysis.r
• CriticalMarkers.r

US Covid19 daily vaccinations don't reveal any significant or predictable statistical correlation with daily US Covid19 deaths/cases

 

Chart Data for cases, deaths, vaccinations from  "Our World in Data" Mathieu, E., Ritchie, H., Ortiz-Ospina, E. et al. A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations. Nat Hum Behav (2021) Code for this post here.

The long term data for US Covid-19 daily vaccinations, deaths and cases *is scaled* and plotted below in a seven day rolling average. A table of the R language correlation coefficient (using 'cor' which is scaled 1 to -1) is far below.   The table and visual inspection reveal a fairly strong correlation between daily Covid cases and daily Covid deaths. For 2021 only, US Covid daily vaccinations have a correlation coefficient with both cases and deaths close to '0'. This would indicate no correlative relationship between daily vaccinations with either daily cases or daily deaths.

In the second chart,  three overlay rectangles represent three distinct and separate temporal relationships between daily vaccinations and daily cases/deaths over the course of the pandemic:

1. The green rectangle graphs daily vaccinations increasing while daily cases/deaths decrease.
2. The purple rectangle graphs daily vaccinations decreasing while daily cases/deaths continue to decrease.
3. The blue rectangle graphs daily vaccinations increasing while daily cases/deaths increase.

Click to enlarge the charts.

Recent articles and research on Vaccine Induced Immune Escape

Questions about Global Vaccination

Two charts with regression lines below  the break are from a data download from "Our World in Data".  Code is available on request. The charts are intended to show both daily and 7 day averages of:

• scaled new vaccinations (red)
• scaled new deaths (black)
• new cases since the start of vaccinations per daily and  for seven day average (blue).

By visual inspection, the world is apparently climbing its third ladder of cases/deaths peak since the start of mass vaccinations in late 2020. There is little question for some of us that the onslaught of highly transmissible variants means that cases, deaths, hospitalizations will continue to both accumulate and rise as mass vaccination continues. I have these questions:

• Are the vaccines actually helping us fight Covid-19?
• Are the vaccines creating through 'immune escape' continuing cycles of more virulent and/or more transmissible variants?
• Is global vaccination a strategy that will bring continued death to many?

Far below the charts are recent posts and papers that help examine these questions. Click to enlarge the charts.