Statistics: Covid & Vaccines

[Ronald Zeeman]

latest research shows thar Chinese people had low interbreeding with Neanderthals so much ado about nothing as far as covid is concerned.

 

[DrBadStrings]

I get it for a day or two even after testing positive suspect my double AB positive blood type effect on my immune system gives me protection, reacts quickly raising my body temperature which destroys the virus in a matter of hours. my biggest fear is injecting foreign materials in my body causing an immune response causing transverse myelitis, already happened once not interested in a repeat. Either way I am an anomaly if you want to solve puzzles follow the anomalies. must admit for statistical analysis you need fairly large sample sizes and my blood type combination is rare.

I've also got AB positive blood type and when I had Covid it kicked my ass for the better part of a week.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My edge is inheriting it from both parents, One of my sons has AB Positive got sick for a few days wife and other son never got sick even once. Either way my particular combination is so rare nobody ever will do a study. The pattern I see so far is strictly anecdotal. I think having AB positive make you more likely to get sick, However in my case it help fight it off better. I know studies were done at the Max Plank institute at the beginning of covid and the one criticism was the lack of AB blood types in the study.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Their is something different about my immune system it kicks the covid viruses ass in a matter of hours or at most a day. I wish I knew what it is, a real anomaly.

 

[DrBadStrings]

My edge is inheriting it from both parents.

I don't think blood types work that way. I've never heard of a double AB positive and with inheritance having two AB+ parents just means you had a 50% chance of also being AB but then you could also have been A or even B, 25% each there.

It sounds like other factors/genetics aside from blood type are responsible for your immune system. I forget what % it was, small, but there is a percentage of the population that is just naturally immune. You seem to be one of those very lucky ones.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Based on my statistics 85 % of the population is naturally immune to covid at least here in Ontario, I'm not one of them I am just strongly resistant, If I do catch it. Either way immune response strongly correlates with blood type
One of the reasons I am very wary of vaccines.

 

[DrBadStrings]

Based on my statistics 85 % of the population is naturally immune to covid at least here in Ontario, I'm not one of them I am just strongly resistant, If I do catch it. Either way immune response strongly correlates with blood type
One of the reasons I am very wary of vaccines.

Vaccines are a personal choice.

That being said, vaccination has saved more lives than pretty much all other medical advancements combined. I feel bad for those in the small small small percentage that can't be vaccinated for valid medical reasons.

And while I do feel it's a personal choice, anyone without a valid medical reason for being unvaccinated is doing more harm than good to the general public. Those folks I have zero respect for as ignorance is not something to be proud of.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Anyone interested a good book on how the immune system works is Immune by Philipp Dettmer. Very detailed.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Vaccines are a personal choice.

That being said, vaccination has saved more lives than pretty much all other medical advancements combined. I feel bad for those in the small small small percentage that can't be vaccinated for valid medical reasons.

And while I do feel it's a personal choice, anyone without a valid medical reason for being unvaccinated is doing more harm than good to the general public. Those folks I have zero respect for as ignorance is not something to be proud of.

I have no issues with vaccines never have just that they tend to over activate my immune system. I even got vaccinated three times for covid Now I do not bother any more As my immune system does not need to be activated to fight it twenty/twenty hind site is great. Even my statistics support getting vaccinated. I unfortunately have a very robust immune system even put me in a wheel chair years ago, Fine now, but wary.

 

[DrBadStrings]

I have no issues with vaccines never have just that they tend to over activate my immune system. I even got vaccinated three times for covid Now I do not bother any more As my immune system does not need to be activated to fight it twenty/twenty hind site is great. Even my statistics support getting vaccinated. I unfortunately have a very robust immune system even put me in a wheel chair years ago, Fine now, but wary.

You fall into that select few that can't or shouldn't be vaccinated. No issues with that. A little envious of how well your immune system works.

 

[DrBadStrings]

Anyone interested a good book on how the immune system works is Immune by Philipp Dettmer. Very detailed.

Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like a great book on the topic. Added to my wish list.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like a great book on the topic. Added to my wish list.

Great book my son give it to me for Christmas. Very detailed, only a doctor would get this kind of detail in training.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

You fall into that select few that can't or shouldn't be vaccinated. No issues with that. A little envious of how well your immune system works.

I got a flu shot once on Saturday morning after seeing doctor about temporary hearing loss He convinced me to get shot sick Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Retired Thursday. Not flu just felt like crap Thursday was my company retirement party. Found out years latter hearing loss may have been precursor to me getting covid month later. giving me a stroke Why I started collecting data on covid.

 

[All-Rounder]

R u sure you didn't have a previous stroke as well? They tend to happen one after the other and screw up the senses like hearing and make speech hard depending on where the stroke takes place.

You can like fall down and think you tripped or don't realize you had a stroke.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I was sitting on my lab stool, and my hearing cut out on the left side. for a couple of minutes. made doctor appointment to see if I had wax in ear. he sent me to ear specialist who found nothing Found out years later temporary loss of hearing was a covid side effect. Now I think i was a precursor to my stroke a 8 weeks later. Either
my sister who had came back from a business trip to New York city passed covid on to me some one who attended a party we also attended My sister told me she caught covid after her trip to New York I had visited her soon after. I am slowly connecting dots. No pointing fingers, just life. Either way I could be patient Zero here in Brampton.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Went to my club to hang out Monday interfaced with other customer East Indian few days later temp went up slightly, oxygen level dropped to 92% blood pressure dropped like a rock, was it covid? Blood pressure failed on control chart. back to normal now.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Went to Black Creek pioneer VIllage today with son, grand daughter. Very diverse crowd, will know in a few days what effect it will have on me.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Got temperature again after family wedding covid or flu no way to tell if gone tomorrow probably covid.Temperature back to normal this morning.

 

[Outsider]

Here's the actual files

I couldn’t open the files. Perhaps, I did something wrong.

The COVID infections data was fluctuating in the USA as well. In the US the agency responsible for collection and analysis of flu infections data is the CDC. The problem with the CDC is that it wasn’t using the actual data on a large scale, instead the agency was collecting the information coming from half a dozen hospitals or so to feed the data into pandemic spread models and made extrapolations based on it. The models themselves are horrendous, but I save the criticism of them for another post.
In the US the agency responsible for approval of medications is FDA. In 2022 former CDC Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, published a book under the title Uncontrolled Spread. Roughly 2/3 of the book is dedicated to criticism of CDC. The agency is completely inept and its "pandemic research" means nothing.

I don’t know what kind of analysis of COVID data the Canadian government was using but I suspect that they also projected a limited amount of data by using their models.

As far as I know, the models that the CDC had used were developed by the scientists working at Johns Hopkins university.

 

[Outsider]

I'm expecting the unvaccinated to infect each other in the next few week as we go to stage 3 should show up as a blip on the numbers. I said from the beginning covid has a genetic component the results so far support this. only a proportion of the population is at risk of getting sick which is what is causing much of the confusion. I KNOW a lot more tha I am stating here. back ground in chemical engineering, micro biology and statistics. was aware at the beginning this virus was airborne. most virus experts do not have knowledge of chemical engineering

Definitely, there is a genetic component to it. I don't have a background in genetics, but i have read several articles written by geneticists. The so-called strength of immune system has little to do with person's general health and age. People whose genetic makeup closely matches a viruses genetic makeup are at higher risk of getting infected with it than people with genetic background distant from the one of the virus. This observation also applies to coronavirus.