Last year, when friends met to greet each other, they would always ask, "Are you Yang Le (covi-positive)?".
"Yang Le" quickly became a hot search in Chinese vocabulary, and it has become synonymous with the covi infection.
Half a year has passed since the first round of the epidemic. After the May Day holidays, "Eryang (Re-infection)" quickly became a hot search again. In the circle of friends, many people have begun to share their experiences and feelings about Eryang.
After the first round of the epidemic, the covid virus seems to have disappeared, and everyone's life gradually returned to normal. For three years, people have been trapped in one place by the covid virus. After the epidemic is over, the tourism industry in various places is also booming. A long holiday has pushed tourism to a peak.
After the long vacation, many people found that they suddenly became covi-positive!
In fact, COVID-19 (covid) has not disappeared, and it exists around us. After the first round of the epidemic, most people have produced antibodies in their bodies. The protective effect of antibodies prevents us from being infected again, but after about half a year over time, these antibodies gradually weaken or even disappear. When there are not enough antibodies to resist the covi, re-infection becomes inevitable.
Therefore, when we meet again, the greetings of friends become: Are you re-infected?
Regarding Eryang, what netizens are most concerned about is, what symptoms will re-infection have? Compared with initial infection, are the symptoms of re-infection lighter or more severe? Is it possible for re-infection to develop into a severe infection?
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The most common symptoms of covid virus re-infection
Many people think that it is a fever. As long as there is a fever, nine times out of ten it is re-infection, and if there is no fever, it is not re-infection.
In fact, this view is incorrect. Some re-infected patients have fever symptoms, while others do not. Fever is not the only symptom of re-infection, let alone a unique symptom.
After being infected with the covid virus, the reason why we have a fever is that our immune system will play a role in the face of the menacing virus. In order to better fight the virus, the immune system will use thermal weapons. The interleukins, tumours in the body produce more cytokines, such as necrosis factor, are secreted, and these cytokines are thermal weapons that send signals to the brain, causing body temperature to rise.
Many elderly people, due to their poor immunity, when infected with covid, the immune system will not use thermal weapons, so naturally they will not have a fever.
There are also some young people with particularly strong immunity. When the covid virus comes, the immune system will directly strangle it. There is no need to take out hot weapons at all, and they will not have a fever at this time.
Therefore, people who are infected with covid and do not have a fever have either a particularly good immunity or a particularly poor immunity.
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Lack of fever does not imply no re-infection
The absence of fever does not mean that there is no re-infection. If the following five symptoms appear, even if there is no fever, one should be alert to Eryang.
1. No fever, but difficulty breathing
Many people judge whether it is a severe infection by the level of fever, which is wrong.
To measure whether it is severe or not, it is not based on body temperature, but whether it is difficult to breathe.
Difficulty breathing means that the virus has attacked the lungs, causing hypoxemia.
For the elderly, they should be particularly alert to dyspnea. For dyspnea, no matter whether they have a fever or not, they should be alert to the covi infection and go to the hospital in time.
2. No fever, but obvious fatigue and poor mental state
Many people do not have a fever, but their mental state is very poor after infection, and they feel obvious general fatigue. At this time, we must also be vigilant.
No matter the elderly or children, if they suddenly have a bad mental state, they must be alert to the possibility of re-infection.
It is also recommended to monitor the finger pulse oxygen. Many elderly people do not have obvious dyspnea after re-infection, but the finger pulse oxygen is very low after the first test. At this time, we should be alert to silent hypoxemia.
The occurrence of silent hypoxemia means that even if there is no obvious chest tightness and shortness of breath, both lungs have been damaged and body tissues have been hypoxic.
3. No fever, but palpitations, heart rate increased significantly
When we have a fever, our heart rate will increase. This is a normal phenomenon. However, when there is no fever, our heart rate will also increase, and we may even feel palpitations. At this time, we must pay attention to it. This is a bad phenomenon.
When we measure finger pulse oxygen, there is another number, which is the pulse.
For most people, pulse and heart rate are the same, so pulse reflects the condition of the heart.
For the elderly, if the heart rate exceeds 100 beats per minute when resting, then it should be taken seriously.
4. No fever, but chest pain
For patients who are re-infected, be alert to chest pain. Some elderly people have underlying heart and lung diseases, and heart and lung diseases may aggravate after being infected with covid.
5. No fever, but cough and expectoration with blood in the sputum
In our lungs, there are densely packed alveoli, and we rely on the alveoli for gas exchange. After the novel coronavirus attacks the lungs, it will destroy the alveoli, and the damaged alveoli will appear as white lungs under CT.
After the alveoli are destroyed, the patient will cough and expectorate, and there will be blood in the sputum.
Most people have mild symptoms after being infected with the covid virus because as time goes by, after the virus continues to mutate, the virulence is also significantly reduced. The symptoms of re-infecion will be milder than those of initial infection but even so, we should not take it lightly , especially those with elderly people at home, because the elderly are older, have many underlying diseases, and have poor immunity, so infection is more likely to progress rapidly and develop into severe infection.
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Covid induces viral myocarditis which is severe especially fulminant myocarditis
There are also some patients who were infected with covid and induced viral myocarditis, which is also a very dangerous disease. Everyone usually pays attention to the novel coronavirus pneumonia, but ignores the viral myocarditis. Among the viral myocarditis, there is a more dangerous disease, that is fulminant myocarditis.
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Expert: China's epidemic situation has two peaks this year
Image : Experts speculate that there will be two peaks of the epidemic in China this year, one peak will be ushered in in June, and there may be another peak this winter. The picture shows people waiting to cross the road on the streets of Beijing on 22 May 2023. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
The covid epidemic has repeatedly hit. According to experts’ speculation, there will be two peaks of the epidemic in China this year, and the second wave will usher in June 2023. There may be another infection this winter and it is another epidemic peak.
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Covid virus mutation can cause multiple rounds of infection peaks, once every five months
According to the Science and Technology Daily report, Xie Xiaoliang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at an academic conference on 18 May 2023 that from the perspective of international data, the mutation of the COVID-19 virus (covid virus, covi, CCP virus, novel coronavirus) can cause multiple rounds of infection peaks, about once every five months. There may be another peak of infection this winter, and the public is urged to prepare for it.
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CCP China has passed a small peak of covid, and the next in June
In addition, Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Communist Party of China, stated at the Greater Bay Area Science Forum on 22 May 2023 that there was a small peak of the covi infection at the end of April and early May 2023, and the peak of the second wave of the epidemic will appear at the end of June reaching 65 million people.
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An Omicron patient can infect more than 30 people and it is important to prevent severe disease
He said that one person infected with Omicron can infect more than 30 people, and it is difficult to prevent infection. The current epidemic prevention and control has been adjusted from the prevention of infection in the past to the prevention of severe disease.
Earlier, Zhong Nanshan also said that it is determined that 85% of the people in China, about 1.1 billion to 1.2 billion people, have been infected with the epidemic, but in the face of the XBB mutant strain, the antibody protection may be weakened because antibodies only work for 4 to 6 months.
"Counting from December last year, it actually looks like this time has come." Zhong Nanshan said.
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The covid spike data in Hong Kong, Beijing and Hangzhou
According to data from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong has seen a small wave of peaks, with an estimated 73,000 new cases every day.
The epidemic situation in Beijing is also continuing to heat up. According to the data released by Beijing CDC, from May 8th to 14th, the city reported a total of 18,081 cases of 16 kinds of legal infectious diseases, and the new crown infection ranked first for 3 consecutive weeks.
The number of infections in Hangzhou is also increasing sharply. Several pharmacy clerks told City Express that the sales of antigens have increased recently, and the inventory in the store is running out. Another pharmacy said, "A total of more than 200 antigens were sold yesterday."
Li Tong, Chief Physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Beijing You'an Hospital, said that the number of infected patients in the past two weeks has indeed increased compared to before. .
However, many netizens retorted: "The ones who go to the doctor are all with obvious symptoms of one covi-positive. Of course, the hospital thinks that there are many covi-positives. Because the symptoms of two covi-positives are mild, they all heal at home."
"Eryang is definitely more than one Yang, but the symptoms are milder than Chu Yang, and there are fewer visits to the hospital. How can you know if you don't test for some Eryang? Can the so-called experts go to find out before making comments."
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Fears linger over another covid death peak in CCP China
Li Tong also said that most of the "chu yang" patients are elderly people, and most of the "eryang" patients are young and middle-aged people between the ages of 20 and 50. The symptoms of "Chu yang" patients are the same as those of the previous round. The elderly and those with underlying diseases are at risk of developing severe illness.
Li Tong's remarks made many people worry. At the peak of the outbreak at the end of last year, many elderly people died of the epidemic, and young people also died suddenly after contracting the epidemic. That tragic scene is still lingering in people's memory, and the second wave of the epidemic has come again.
In addition, according to the speculation of Xie Xiaoliang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there will be another peak of the epidemic in China this winter. Winter is a period of high incidence of cardiopulmonary diseases among the elderly, and the risk of severe illness and death is higher.
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CCP China has approved two covid vaccines against XBB and three or four more will be approved
Zhong Nanshan said that it is very important to develop a covid vaccine with better protection against XBB variants. He revealed that currently two vaccines against XBB have been preliminarily approved, and three or four more will be approved soon. "In researching more effective vaccines, we can go ahead of the world."
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Covid virus mutates quickly, will vaccination still work? Experts interpret
At present, the XBB mutant strain of covi has become the mainstream mutant strain in CCP China. According to data disclosed by the China CDC, the proportion of XBB variant infections increased from 0.2% in mid-February to 74.4% in late April to 83.6% in early May, continuing to rise.
In addition, the "CDC Weekly" released a survey on secondary infections earlier this month, showing that among 368 participants who had been infected with covid, 104 cases were re-infected, and many reinfected persons had been vaccinated with booster shots.
As covi continues to mutate and has a large number of branches, the possibility of secondary infection, that is, "two positives", has gradually become clear. Many people think that "the vaccine can't prevent the infection" and "the vaccine doesn't matter".
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Vaccine strain needs to be changed regularly
"The original strain vaccines at home and abroad are indeed unable to prevent the infection of the new mutant strains, because the former cannot induce sufficiently effective neutralizing antibodies against the mutant strains, while vaccination with a more targeted new generation of vaccines can induce sufficient and effective neutralizing antibodies. antibodies.” Xie Liangzhi, chairman of Shenzhou Cell Group, said that the covi has its own characteristics, but it is not “heterogeneous”, and the “right vaccine” can still prevent infection.
Xie Liangzhi explained that "the right vaccine" refers to changing the vaccine strain regularly, just like changing the strain of the flu vaccine every year.
When Xi Jinping visited Xiong'an in Hebei and Yuncheng in Shanxi recently, all the officials wore masks. Public opinion speculates that high-level officials know that the epidemic situation in China is very serious, so they pay great attention to self-protection.
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Reactions to upcoming XBB vaccines in CCP China
Ms. Dai, a mainland public, said, "There should be quite a lot of people (infected with the epidemic). I also have a cold and a fever. A lot of people just cough like this, but everyone doesn't take it seriously. They even ask people to get vaccinated. Everyone is afraid of being closed and controlled. What I’m afraid of now is the blockade, not other things, after the blockade, a large number of (stores) will go bankrupt.”
However, people in mainland China still generally question the reliability of domestic vaccines and the real purpose of the authorities in promoting vaccines.
Mr. Li, a mainland citizen, said, "I think that the vaccine has not been tested and tested for a reasonable period of time, so it should be unreliable. In the past, children were vaccinated, and it was tested periodically over decades and hundreds of years, but Now it is suddenly said that planning for a few months is obviously a kind of premeditation, using vaccines to make money, some companies and some interest groups deliberately poison them, and then come to treat them to achieve their purpose of making money."
Mr. Cheng, a mainland citizen, said, "The most important thing is to control this society. You people can't move a city or a place. The current crisis in society must be known to the higher-ups. It's impossible. Let this crisis develop, it must be controlled. The second reason, I think it should be to destock, so many vaccines were produced before, and now they are all backlogged there, so they are now destocking."
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Zhang Wenhong: Covid virus infection still has a long tailing effect
A few days ago, Zhang Wenhong said in an interview that today the covid epidemic has entered a state of normalized fluctuations and epidemics. Recently, everyone will see the phenomenon of "two covi-positives", but this time the volatility is lower and the symptoms are lighter, especially those who have been infected. The crowd with fever is shorter and the convenience of obtaining medicines is faster.
"The degree of severe illness and the effectiveness of the response will be far better than the first wave." Zhang Wenhong said that although the virus infection still has a long tail effect, it should not have a major impact on economic life.
"People who have not been vaccinated, even if they have been infected with the virus, have a higher risk of re-infection with the virus in the future than those who have been vaccinated." Zhang Wenhong said that there is a relatively high international consensus on this point.
Zhang Wenhong expects that more bivalent vaccines and vaccines that can cover Omicron will appear in the future, and the treatment of covid will be more and more similar to the treatment of influenza.
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Covid vaccines as the cause of myocarditis in newborns must be investigated urgently
Reporter : Rhoda Wilson
Can a woman who takes the covid mRNA injection during pregnancy or after birth harm her baby? Yes.
Vaccinating the mother vaccinates the baby in the womb. And, infants get the mother’s vaccine-induced antibodies through breast milk. Additionally, the mRNA spike protein is in the placenta and breast milk.
In response to the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) stating that a cluster of cases of myocarditis in the UK is being investigated by authorities in the UK, Dr. Paul Alexander has issued a stark warning to pregnant women and mothers with nursing infants. “Pregnant women must take this very seriously,” he said.
On Tuesday, WHO issued an alert that there had been a rise in “severe myocarditis” in newborns and infants in England and Wales. WHO claimed the myocarditis cases were linked to enterovirus infections as confirmed by positive enterovirus PCR tests.
“[For WHO or anyone else] to conclude that this is likely due to enterovirus infection would be reckless and would continue the pattern of covering up the dramatic harmful effects of the covid gene injection and especially the mRNA technology-based gene injection platform. If health authorities want trust, they have to place the role of the covid vaccine on the table,” wrote Dr. Alexander.
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Pregnant women who take the covid mRNA technology-based gene injection during pregnancy or after birth can harm their infants
Main text by : Dr. Paul Alexander
mRNA from the mother’s vaccine can harm the infant in utero (in the uterus) as well as soon after birth and this cannot be taken off the table to help explain this surge in infant myocarditis (in newborns). This has to be investigated urgently for the child is at risk for the full range of pathology seen in adults and teens etc. paralysis, pericarditis, stroke, brain bleeds, cardiac arrest etc.
Pregnant women must take this very seriously and weigh the benefits and risks to the baby in utero before taking any such covid vaccine. Demand that your doctor examine the benefits and harms.
Importantly, the infant’s natural innate immune system – innate antibodies and natural killer cells (“NK”) – is overlooked and this first line of defence is developing and immature yet still broadly protective. There is a window of training that the innate antibodies must be allowed in the child as the maternal antibodies wane and to do this, they must bind to the virus so as to learn how to handle them. This protects the child yet the high specificity, high-affinity covid vaccine-induced antibodies will outcompete the innate antibodies for the target antigen (spike protein).
This subversion of the innate antibodies will leave them “untrained” and thus they will be unable to properly educate the innate immune system and larger immune response on:
- how to handle pathogens the infant/child is confronted with NOW;
- how to handle pathogens (glycosylated viruses etc. like measles, mumps, rubella, RSV, rotavirus etc.) in the future as the maternal antibodies wane and also the innate antibodies; and,
- how to educate the natural killer cells in differentiating self from non-self components of the child and this will leave the child susceptible to auto-immune diseases. The child will be damaged for life.
Covid vaccine-induced antibodies in the mother and thus the child will and could damage the training of the child’s innate immune system – innate antibodies and natural killer cells – and this is catastrophic for a young child. In short, an infant or young child should not be exposed to covid vaccine-induced antibodies – from the mother or themselves being vaccinated – until they have gotten their full series (prime and booster) for glycosylated pathogens (viruses) that share similar surface antigen, sugars, glycans etc.
Be warned. Mothers, ask your doctor about what I wrote above.
As I have written before, we must get accountability and justice and we do not stop until we get all involved with these covid fraud injections into a proper courtroom with proper judges.
Paul Elias Alexander, PhD, is a researcher in evidence-based medicine, research methodology, and clinical epidemiology. He is a former Assistant Professor at McMaster University in evidence-based medicine, a former Covid Pandemic evidence-synthesis advisor to WHO-PAHO and a former Senior Advisor to Covid Pandemic policy in the US Health and Human Services (HHS). He has also worked at WHO as a Regional Specialist/Epidemiologist in Europe’s Regional Office in Denmark. He regularly writes articles on his Substack page which you can subscribe to and follow HERE.
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WHO warns of "unusual" surge in severe myocarditis in babies
UK authorities are investigating an “unusual” surge in severe myocarditis which has hit 15 babies in Wales and England and has killed at least one, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced.
On Tuesday, the WHO issued an alert that there had been a rise in “severe myocarditis” in newborns and infants between June 2022 and March 2023 in Wales and England.
It said that this was associated with the enterovirus infection, which rarely affects the heart.
A UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times that 10 babies have been diagnosed in Wales and five have been diagnosed in England.
The WHO said that “although enterovirus infections are common in neonates and young infants, the reported increase in myocarditis with severe outcomes in neonates and infants associated with enterovirus infection is unusual.”
It said that in the same hospital, covering the South Wales region, over the previous six years, “only one other similar case has been identified.”
WHO assessed the public health risk as low, but added that in certain situations, it “may be advisable to close child-care facilities and schools to reduce the intensity of transmission.”
However, the WHO took down the alert on Wednesday. The Epoch Times understands that this could be because some of the numbers were not correct.
The WHO did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.
Authorities in England and Wales are currently investigating the rise in cases.
Dr. Shamez Ladhani, Consultant Paediatrician at UKHSA, told The Epoch Times by email that “given a higher than average number of cases in Wales in the autumn/winter months in very young babies, UKHSA is investigating the situation in England to see if any similar cases have been observed here and whether there are any factors driving the increase in cases.”
The UKHSA told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement, “Worldwide studies suggest no evidence of any increased risk of myocarditis in infants of mothers who were vaccinated against COVID-19 in pregnancy.”
Public Health Wales at the start of May announced that it was investigating a cluster of severe enterovirus infections with myocarditis occurring in very young babies from the South Wales region.
The cases occurred from June 2022 with a peak in November 2022 involving babies under 28 days old.
Ten babies have developed myocarditis within this cluster. One baby remains in hospital, eight are being managed as outpatients, and one baby has died.
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Expert questions whether the babies are vaccinated against covid
Consultant pathologist and HART member Dr. Clare Craig told The Epoch Times that there’s “a massive question about whether or not these babies or the mums are vaccinated.”
HART is an organisation that was set up to share concerns about policy and guidance recommendations relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Coxsackievirus is a member of a family of viruses called enteroviruses and one of the most common causes of viral myocarditis,” she said.
“And we saw like with other viruses, the diagnosis of Coxsackievirus reduced massively in 2020 when SARS-CoV-2 arrived.
She added that the total number of people getting myocarditis after 2020 stayed the same suggesting “SARS-CoV-2 filled the niche” that Coxsackievirus had left behind.
“But then the vaccine comes along and from 2021 the incidence rate of myocarditis went sky high,” she added.
“The public health authorities claim that they want to maintain trust and yet they won’t explore these avenues to rule out concerns,” she added.
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Myocarditis in babies develops in a relatively short time frame
Dr. Christopher Williams, consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, told The Epoch Times by email that reaction to the infection “remains extremely rare.”
He added that “enterovirus is a common infection of childhood, causing a range of infections including respiratory disease, hand, foot and mouth, and viral meningitis.”
“In very young babies, enterovirus can, in rare cases, also cause a severe illness in the first few weeks of life. Most babies and children recover completely following enterovirus infection,” he said.
Williams reiterated that this only “affects the heart on very rare occasions.”
“This cluster is unusual due to the number of cases reported in a relatively short time frame, and so investigations are now ongoing in collaboration with the paediatric team in the children’s hospital of Wales to understand the reasons why and to investigate any further cases that may be reported in the coming weeks and months,” he said.
“Parents should be reassured that although there has been an increase in cases, this is still an extremely rare occurrence,” added Williams.
