Isolation

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Avian flu virus H5N1: No proof for existence, pathogenicity, or pandemic potential; non-“H5N1” causation omitted – NCBI

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 9 February 2023

Published 20 Dec 2005.

We identified four fundamental questions underlying these claims and requested supporting studies from FLI (which according to the German Government “possesses virus isolates of H5N1”):

1.Does H5N1 exist?

2.Is it pathogenic to animals?

3.Is it transmissible and pathogenic to humans, and does it have pandemic potential?

4.Have other causes for observed disease been studied?

Our analysis shows the papers do not satisfy our four basic questions. Claims of H5N1 pathogenicity and pandemic potential need to be challenged further.

https://archive.today/2020.12.03-210342/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173052/

Tags Bird Flu, CDC, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, H5N1, Isolation, NCBI, Pandemics, Pathogenicity, Robert Koch Institute, Virology, WHO

News

‘Shambolic’ Covid PCR testing rules meant one in three who isolated were never contagious – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 4 February 2022

Up to a third of people who tested positive for coronavirus by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests were not contagious and did not need to self-isolate, a new study suggests.

Research led by academics from the University of Oxford found that many laboratories are setting the positivity bar very low, meaning they are picking up people who are “a danger to no one”.

…However, Freedom of Information requests made by members of the public and compiled by the University of Oxford show that NHS trusts are using vastly different cut-off thresholds, with little regulation from the Government. Some are as low as 25, while others are as high as 45.

The figures also show that between 23 and 37 per cent of people who were told they were positive had a cycle threshold value above 30. For one in 20, it was higher than 40.

http://archive.today/2022.02.05-023319/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/04/shambolic-covid-pcr-testing-rules-meant-one-three-isolated-never/

Tags CEBM, Cepheid GenXpert, Collateral Global, COVID-19, Cycle Threshold, Isolation, Oxford Universtity, PCR, Professor Tom Jefferson, Quarantine, Testing, UK, UK Health Security Agency

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£37billion Test and Trace scheme may have only prevented as few as 6% of Covid cases, Government’s own study finds – Daily Mail

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 14 September 2021

No10’s Test and Trace system has had barely any impact on thwarting the spread of Covid, according to official estimates.

The controversial £37billion scheme has been heavily criticised over the past year for being ineffective at breaking the chains of transmission.

New Government modelling found the programme – which critics have described as being the biggest ever waste of taxpayer money – may have only slashed cases by as little as six per cent.

http://archive.today/2021.09.14-122644/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9988617/37billion-Test-Trace-scheme-cut-6-Covid-cases.html

Tags COVID-19, Daily Mail, Department of Health and Social Care, Government, Imperial College, Isolation, NHS, Professor Neil Ferguson, R Value, Statistics, Test and Trace, UK, Waste

News

Study shows schools do not spread Covid – The Times

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 31 July 2021

Schools are not spreading Covid, according to an official study that has boosted hopes that the return to class will not trigger an autumn surge in infections.

Pupils sent home in class bubbles were highly unlikely to pass on the virus to their parents even when they did pick up it from a fellow pupil, the research found.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/75136706-f171-11eb-8f01-2c678acbb979

Tags Children, COVID-19, Isolation, Public Health England, Quarantine, SAGE, Schools, SPI-M, Testing, UK

Opinion

Scrap Covid tests in schools, says Oxford vaccine pioneer

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 17 June 2021

Covid testing in schools is hugely disruptive and should be suspended, experts have said, as it emerged that up to 60 per cent of “positive” tests a week are coming back negative when checked.

Under plans to keep schools open, more than 50 million lateral flow tests have been carried out on youngsters, leading to thousands of pupils and their social bubbles being forced to self-isolate for 10 days.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/17/scrap-covid-tests-schools-says-oxford-vaccine-pioneer/

Videos

Dr. Peter McCullough interview by John Leake

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 12 June 2021

Dr. Peter McCullough has been the world’s most prominent and vocal advocate for early outpatient treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection in order to prevent hospitalization and death. On May 19, 2021, I interviewed him about his efforts as a treating physician and researcher. From his unique vantage point, he has observed and documented a profoundly disturbing policy response to the pandemic—a policy response that may prove to be the greatest malpractice and malfeasance in the history of medicine and public health.”

Link to interview audio format released by Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed podcast.

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People in Covid hotspots could get free accommodation for self-isolation – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 24 May 2021

Pilot schemes for nine of the worst-hit areas will see councils offer to house the contacts of positive virus cases in order to stop transmission in overcrowded households.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/24/people-covid-hotspots-could-get-free-accommodation-self-isolation/

Tags Accommodation, Compliance Checks, COVID-19, Hotspots, Housing, Isolation, Social Care, Social Distancing, The Telegraph, Transmission, Variants

Opinion

‘It’s the isolation’: parents on the impact of lockdown on children

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 10 February 2021

With many primary school pupils learning at home, and toddlers missing out on critical social interactions with their peers,parents of young children have concerns about the long-term impact of long periods spent at home.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/10/its-the-isolation-parents-on-the-impact-of-lockdown-on-children

Tags Children, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Education, Homeschooling, Isolation, Lockdown, Schools, The Guardian, UK

Publications

COVID-19: management of staff and exposed patients or residents in health and social care settings – GOV.uk

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 28 January 2021

Immunocompetent staff, patients and residents who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR should be exempt from routine re-testing by PCR or LFD antigen tests (for example, repeated whole setting screening or screening prior to hospital discharge) within a period of 90 days from their initial illness onset or test (if asymptomatic) unless they develop new COVID-19 symptoms. This is because fragments of inactive virus can be persistently detected by PCR in respiratory tract samples following infection – long after a person has completed their isolation period and is no longer infectious.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings#section6

Tags Asymptomatic, COVID-19, Department of Health and Social Care, False Positive, Government, Health Care Workers, Infection Control, Isolation, PCR, Public Health England, Rapid Lateral Flow, Symptoms, Testing, Transmission, UK

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COVID-19 isolation having detrimental impact on children’s education and welfare, particularly the most vulnerable – Ofsted

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 15 December 2020

Repeated isolation has chipped away at the progress pupils have made since returning to school in September
The effectiveness of remote education is varied and difficult to determine
Children arriving at secure children’s homes are, in effect, put into solitary confinement
Many children with special education needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are not attending school, are struggling with remote learning and are at risk of abuse or neglect.
Even more schools report at least one child now being home schooled. Many parents doing this say their children will not return to school ‘until pandemic is over’

https://web.archive.org/web/20201215125700/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-isolation-having-detrimental-impact-on-childrens-education-and-welfare-particularly-the-most-vulnerable

Tags Children, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Education, Isolation, Lockdown, Ofsted, Social Distancing, UK

News

Pandemic isolation has killed thousands of Alzheimer’s patients while families watch from afar – The Washington Post

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 16 September 2020

Since the pandemic began, Goerke’s wife, Denise — 63 years old and afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease — had declined dramatically. Left alone in her nursing home, she had lost 16 pounds, could not form the simplest words, no longer responded to the voices of her children.

In recent weeks, she had stopped recognizing even the man she loved.

Goerke, 61, could tell the isolation was killing his wife, and there was nothing he could do but watch. “Every day it gets a little worse,” he said. “We’ve lost months, maybe years of her already.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/16/coronavirus-dementia-alzheimers-deaths/

Tags Care Homes, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Elderly, Isolation, Social Distancing, The Washington Post, USA

Publications

An Outbreak of Common Colds at an Antarctic Base after Seventeen Weeks of Complete Isolation – JSTOR (1973)

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 12 July 2020

17-week perfect Antarctic quarantine and someone still contracted a coronavirus.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862013?seq=1

Commentary by Professor Michael Levitt:

Thanks so much. More people need to see what you posted. “Witness 17-week perfect Antarctic quarantine—someone still contracted a coronavirus!! https://t.co/bCXUrQdzOm”. So very hard to keep a virus from getting to its target. https://t.co/WYjuztabI7 pic.twitter.com/ZuM1FHLqry
— Michael Levitt (@MLevitt_NP2013) July 12, 2020