Det handler ikke om en virus

As follows, too high of a Ct value indicates minuscule SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the sample, which might mean that it's clinically meaningless. Yet, it's still a positive result.

Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and medical advisor of the White House, admitted that the Ct value of >35 most likely indicates "dead nucleotides," which means harmless virus fragments. Some even consider that the Ct value of over 30 is too high. Indeed, a review of multiple studies concluded that SARS-CoV-2 is usually not culturable at a Ct value of >30 or >33.

"Most [RT-PCR] tests set the [Ct value] limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus," the New York Times reported. Apparently, the FDA did not set the Ct value limit for a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, and that "commercial manufacturers and laboratories set their own."

There's been a growing consensus that SARS-CoV-2 affects the vascular system, but exactly how it did so was not understood. Similarly, scientists studying other coronaviruses have long suspected that the spike protein contributed to damaging vascular endothelial cells, but this is the first time the process has been documented.

In the new study, the researchers created a "pseudovirus" that was surrounded by SARS-CoV-2 classic crown of spike proteins, but did not contain any actual virus. Exposure to this pseudovirus resulted in damage to the lungs and arteries of an animal model -- proving that the spike protein alone was enough to cause disease. Tissue samples showed inflammation in endothelial cells lining the pulmonary artery walls.

The team then replicated this process in the lab, exposing healthy endothelial cells (which line arteries) to the spike protein. They showed that the spike protein damaged the cells by binding ACE2. This binding disrupted ACE2's molecular signaling to mitochondria (organelles that generate energy for cells), causing the mitochondria to become damaged and fragmented.

Previous studies have shown a similar effect when cells were exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this is the first study to show that the damage occurs when cells are exposed to the spike protein on its own.

shadow666 skrev:
Vi må nødvendigvis kræve en eller anden form for overdødelighed hvis der skal være tale om en farlig pandemi. Overdødeligheden er fuldstændig fraværende. Så kære venner, næste gang I møder en fanatisk covidiot der taler om pandemi + nødvendigheden af tests, nedlukninger og restriktioner, kan I blot bede pgl. om at sætte sig ind i tingene, ref. tal fra Danmarks Statistik.

Overdødeligheden er ikke fraværende

Overdødelighed på 1000 personer

Ifølge SSI-direktør Henrik Ullum har der desværre vist sig at være en overdødelighed på omkring 1000 danskere denne vinter som følge af coronaepidemien.
Normalt vil der være nogen overdødelighed i Danmark om vinteren, men denne sæson har den været ekstra udbredt.
Der sker på trods af, at den typiske 'vinter-dræber' - influenzaen - i år stort set ikke har krævet nogen liv herhjemme.
- Det siger noget om, hvor alvorlig epidemien er. Vi forventer, at dødeligheden vil falde som følge af de lavere smittetal, siger Henrik Ullum.

Forkert tolkning af dødsfald
På de sociale medier løber der lige nu en historie rundt om, at mange mennesker er døde efter covid-vaccination. Men der er tale om en forkert udlægning og tolkning af tallene.
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Lige nu kan vi imidlertid konstatere et meget lavt dødstal i Danmark, så vi reelt er i en situation med underdødelighed.
Det skyldes blandt andet, at den sædvanlige influenzaepidemi er udeblevet som følge af covid-19-restriktionerne og den mindre kontakt mellem mennesker.