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Clarifying the evidence on SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid tests in public health responses to COVID-19 – The Lancet

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 17 February 2021

Most people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are contagious for 4–8 days.⁷ Specimens are generally not found to contain culture-positive (potentially contagious) virus beyond day 9 after the onset of symptoms, with most transmission occurring before day 5. This timing fits with the observed patterns of virus transmission (usually 2 days before to 5 days after symptom onset), which led public health agencies to recommend a 10-day isolation period. The short window of transmissibility contrasts with a median 22–33 days of PCR positivity (longer with severe infections and somewhat shorter among asymptomatic individuals). This suggests that 50–75% of the time an individual is PCR positive, they are likely to be post-infectious.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00425-6/fulltext

Tags Asymptomatic, Errors, False Positive, Infection, Innova Lateral Flow SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test, PCR, Rapid Lateral Flow, RNA, Testing, The Lancet, Transmission, UK

Prof Jay Bhattacharya, Signatory of Gt Barrington Declaration: Why ‘Lockdown’ Will Kill Millions – Naomi Wolf, Daily Clout

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 10 February 2021

Can you still transmit Covid-19 after vaccination? – BBC Future

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 3 February 2021

There’s no evidence that any of the current Covid-19 vaccines can completely stop people from being infected – and this has implications for our prospects of achieving herd immunity

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210203-why-vaccinated-people-may-still-be-able-to-spread-covid-19rticle/20210203-why-vaccinated-people-may-still-be-able-to-spread-covid-19

Tags BBC, COVID-19, Herd Immunity, Symptoms, Transmission, Vaccination

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

What role do schools play in the spread of Covid-19? – The Spectator

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 25 January 2021

Analysis of the age profile of Covid infections, however, does not point to schools being especially important in the early-stage growth of the second wave. Although the report does also observe that ‘school closures can contribute to a reduction in SARS-CoV-2 transmission’.

But had schools played a big role you would expect to have seen a sharp increase in cases among children of school age a week or two following the return to the classroom. Instead, the ECDC noted that Europe’s second wave began with a sharp increase in cases among 19 to 39 year olds in mid August. Cases among 16 to 18 year olds also increased around this time, but the curve of infections among younger children rose much more gradually, in step with infection rates in the over-40s.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-role-do-schools-play-in-the-spread-of-covid-19-

Tags Age Groups, Children, COVID-19, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Schools, The Spectator, Transmission

COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission – first update – ECDC

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 23 January 2021

The return to school of children around mid-August 2020 coincided with a general relaxation of other NPI measures in many countries and does not appear to have been a driving force in the upsurge in cases observed in many EU Member States from October 2020.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/children-and-school-settings-covid-19-transmission

Tags Children, COVID-19, Europe, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Schools, Transmission

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Their Parents in Southwest Germany – JAMA Pediatrics

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 22 January 2021

The low seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in young children in this study may indicate that they do not play a key role in SARS-CoV-2 spreading during the current pandemic.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2775656

Tags Age Groups, Children, COVID-19, JAMA, Statistics, Symptoms, Transmission

Children did NOT play a key role in spreading coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic and are ‘unlikely’ to have boosted infection numbers, study finds – Daily Mail

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 22 January 2021

German researchers enrolled nearly 2,500 parents and their children in a study
Found three times as many adults had coronavirus antibodies than children
Data also shows a previously infected adult and an uninfected child was 4.3 times more common than a previously infected child and an uninfected parent

Children are unlikely to have played a significant role in the spread of coronavirus during the first wave last year, a study shows.

Throughout the pandemic it has become increasingly evident children are less affected by Covid-19; symptoms, severe disease and death figures in children are all much lower than would be expected when compared to the rest of the population.

Figures from Public Health England (PHE) show the current risk of dying from coronavirus if infected is 1,513 per 100,000 people for over-80s, but for children aged five to nine, this is just 0.1 per 100,000.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210122182806/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9176751/Children-NOT-play-key-role-spreading-coronavirus.html

Tags Age Groups, Children, COVID-19, COVID-19 Genomics UK, Daily Mail, Dr. Sean O'Leary, Germany, Imperial College, JAMA, Professor Neil Ferguson, Public Health England, Statistics, Symptoms, Transmission, Ulm University Medical Centre, University Childrens Hospital, University of Colorado

Ivor Cummins on The James Delingpole Channel

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 11 January 2021

Ivor Cummins aka the Fat Emperor – gives James the lowdown on why you can’t trust anything our governments tell us about Covid-19. If you want the facts on Coronavirus – how deadly is it? do lockdowns and masks work? how does it compare with previous pandemics? – you’ve come to the right place

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Measures do not prevent deaths, transmission is not by contact, masks provide no benefit, vaccines are inherently dangerous: Review update of recent science relevant to COVID-19 policy – Denis Rancourt, Research Gate

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 28 December 2020

The unprecedented measures of universal lockdowns, tight institutional lockdowns of care homes, universal masking of the general population, obsession with surfaces and hands, and the accelerated vaccine deployment are contrary to known science, and contrary to recent leading studies. There has been government recklessness by action and negligence by omission. Institutional measures have been needed for a long time to stem corruption in both medicine and public health policy.

Assessment of Maternal and Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load, Transplacental Antibody Transfer, and Placental Pathology in Pregnancies During the COVID-19 Pandemic – JAMA

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 22 December 2020

Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study, there was no evidence of placental infection or definitive vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Transplacental transfer of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies was inefficient. Lack of viremia and reduced coexpression and colocalization of placental angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 and transmembrane serine protease 2 may serve as protective mechanisms against vertical transmission.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201222162005/https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774428

Tags Antibodies, COVID-19, Infection, JAMA, Neonatal, Pregnant, SARS-CoV-2, Transmission, Viral Load

It’s not possible that the new mutant strain is 70% more transmissible – Dr Clare Craig, talkRadio

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 21 December 2020

https://youtu.be/rlxLwS1sqw8

Tags Capacity, Cases, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Dr. Clare Craig, Economy, Errors, False Positive, Hospitals, Lockdown, Medical Experts, Misdiagnosis, Mutant Strain, Mutation, NERVTAG, Poverty, Science, Testing, Transmission

More than 10,000 patients caught Covid-19 while being treated in hospital – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 9 December 2020

More than 10,000 people acquired coronavirus when they were being treated in hospital for other illnesses, The Telegraph can disclose.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said that 139 out of 357 Covid-19 patients they had treated had caught the virus there – 38.9 per cent – with board papers showing that five patients had died.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201209213632/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/09/exclusive-10000-patients-caught-covid-19-treated-hospital/

Tags COVID-19, Hospitals, Nosocomial, The Telegraph, Transmission, UK

How did Covid REALLY spread around the world? As damning test results show antibodies were in US in December – WEEKS before China raised the alarm – growing global evidence points to a cover-up

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 2 December 2020

Blood samples unveiled this week show people in California, Oregon and Washington infected in December
Further tests on blood taken in mid-to-late December and into early January found virus in six more states
Italy, Brazil and France have all since found traces of the virus before China even acknowledged it existed
Evidence has emerged in Spain and the UK suggesting that Covid-19 was around before testing was possible
Claims the virus emerged in a market in Wuhan last winter have crumbled in the face of scientific evidence

https://web.archive.org/web/20201202161534/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9009297/How-did-Covid-REALLY-spread-world-Coronavirus-blood-samples-December.html

Tags Antibody, Beijing, China, Coverup, COVID-19, Daily Mail, Discovery, Misinformation, Testing, Timeline, Transmission, USA, WHO

No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2 – Nature

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 25 November 2020

We do not identify a single recurrent mutation in this set convincingly associated with increased viral transmission. Instead, recurrent mutations currently in circulation appear to be evolutionary neutral and primarily induced by the human immune system via RNA editing, rather than being signatures of adaptation. At this stage we find no evidence for significantly more transmissible lineages of SARS-CoV-2 due to recurrent mutations.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201125121534/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19818-2

Tags Coronavirus, COVID-19, Mutation, Nature, RNA, Transmission, Virus

Moderna CMO Tal Zaks: Data does not show that vaccine prevents you from potentially carrying this virus and infecting others – AXIOS HBO

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 24 November 2020

Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks warns on #AxiosOnHBO to not “over-interpret” vaccine results: “They do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus…and infecting others.” Adding, we shouldn’t “change behaviors solely on the basis of vaccination.”

Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks warns on #AxiosOnHBO to not "over-interpret" vaccine results: "They do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus…and infecting others."

Adding, we shouldn't "change behaviors solely on the basis of vaccination." pic.twitter.com/qrwQkjLf3Y
— Axios (@axios) November 24, 2020

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Tags Behaviour Change, Children, COVID-19, HBO, Moderna, Schools, Transmission, Vaccination

Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China – Nature

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 20 November 2020

Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

Tags Asymptomatic, COVID-19, Lockdown, Nature, Transmission, Wuhan

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers – Annals of Internal Medicine

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 18 November 2020

The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Tags Annals of Internal Medicine, CDC, COVID-19, Face Masks, Infection Control, Infection Rate, Randomized Controlled Trials, Transmission, WHO

What the data say about asymptomatic COVID infections – Nature

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 18 November 2020

Now, evidence suggests that about one in five infected people will experience no symptoms, and they will transmit the virus to significantly fewer people than someone with symptoms. But researchers are divided about whether asymptomatic infections are acting as a ‘silent driver’ of the pandemic.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201118211843/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3

Tags Asymptomatic, COVID-19, Infection, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Nature, Spread, Transmission, University of St Andrews

Have we got it all wrong when it comes to Covid? – The Irish Examiner

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 14 November 2020

There is a case to be made that we as a country have been led by a conversation about the virus which has been unbalanced and disproportionate, writes Daniel McConnell

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40081700.html

Tags Care Homes, Children, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Ireland, Lockdown, Response, Social Distancing, Super Spreaders, The Irish Examiner, The National Public Health Emergency Team, Transmission