Posted on 05/04/2021 8:17:59 AM PDT by Signalman
After Fully-Vaccinated Father Dies of COVID-19, Family Hopes Story Raises Awareness
A suburban Chicago family who lost their fully vaccinated father to COVID-19 said they hope his story can help others with certain pre-existing conditions and immune deficiencies as they say his unexpected passing left them with a major "what if."
Alan Sporn, owner and president of Spornette International and an outgoing father of four who was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2019, had been taking added precautions throughout the coronavirus pandemic, despite not yet requiring treatment for his cancer.
"We were very careful when we visited him, always wore masks," his daughter Bonnie Sporn told NBC Chicago. "When we came to his house we either ate outside, we would wear masks."
But the 75-year-old hairbrush salesman was eager to get vaccinated as travel was his career and his life. He received his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine in January and his second in early February, his family said.
By March, he had decided to have dinner at a restaurant with some friends, one of whom tested positive for coronavirus in the days following the meal.
Sporn started experiencing a fever and his doctor urged him to go to the emergency room and get tested. There, he found out he was positive for coronavirus.
Doctors told Sporn's family that his lungs were clear and he was able to recover at home.
"That's where we wish we would have paused and hit the pause button because we feel that some communication, some red flag wasn't alerted that because my dad has CLL, even though it's dormant, because he's immunocompromised - anybody with cancer or HIV or lupus, you know, like anybody that has an autoimmune disease - it should be a red flag," Bonnie Sporn said.
Three days later, Sporn was admitted to another hospital. By then, his lungs were "completely covered," his family said.
"He had eight antibodies," Bonnie Sporn said. "And you're supposed to have thousands of [antibodies]. You know after you get your second vaccine, it should show up in your system."
One week later, on March 29, Sporn died. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office listed his primary cause of death as pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.
"We feel that if he were given an antibody test when he found out he had COVID it would have alerted us to his low antibody count, and we wouldn't have let him drive home," Bonnie Sporn said. "We would have been, you know, either send him straight to the hospital or at least monitor him."
The Illinois Department of Public Health has so far reported 32 deaths due to COVID-19 or related complications in fully vaccinated individuals since Jan. 1, but further details on those cases aren't available. As of April 28, another 97 "breakthrough" vaccine cases - those who test positive for coronavirus at least two weeks after their final vaccine dose - had been hospitalized.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, citing data from a recent U.K. study, reports that "some blood cancer patients may not get optimal protection from the vaccines and may be more susceptible to COVID-19 infections after vaccination compared to the general public."
In that study from King’s College London, data showed that three weeks after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, an antibody response was found in 39% of solid cancer patients and just 13% of people with blood cancer, compared to 95% in healthy individuals, the society reported.
The group urged blood cancer patients to continue wearing masks and taking preventative measures like social distancing and handwashing.
Similarly, a recent study from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center found that "people with cancer that affects the blood, bone marrow or lymph nodes are at elevated risk of COVID-19 vaccine failure, particularly those with chronic lymphocytic leukemia."
The study tested blood from 67 patients with "hematologic malignancies" who had been vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 two-dose vaccines three weeks earlier. The tests found that more than 46% of the participants had not produced antibodies against COVID-19 and only three in 13 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia had produced measurable antibodies, even though 70% of them weren’t undergoing any form of cancer therapy.
“As we see more national guidance allowing for unmasked gatherings among vaccinated people, clinicians should counsel their immunocompromised patients about the possibility that COVID-19 vaccines may not fully protect them against SARS-CoV-2,” the study's senior author Dr. Ghady Haidar, a transplant infectious diseases physician and assistant professor in the university's Department of Infectious Diseases, said in a statement. “Our results show that the odds of the vaccine producing an antibody response in people with hematologic malignancies are the equivalent of a coin flip.”
According to Haidar, however, a negative antibody test does not necessarily mean a patient isn't protected from the virus.
Many medications and treatments for certain cancers or other conditions can cause immune suppression or weaken an immune system.
The University of Chicago wrote in a blog post in February that there is little-to-no data surrounding the coronavirus vaccines' effectiveness in immunocompromised people because they weren't included in the vaccines' initial trials.
"Researchers don’t know whether these immunosuppressant treatments make the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines less effective – as some do in the case of flu vaccines – or if pausing or delaying treatment could make the vaccines work better. But it’s important that patients not change their treatment schedule without first speaking to their doctor," the university's post read.
With little data to offer, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is asking those living with blood cancers to register to become a "citizen scientist" and share their experiences with COVID-19 and the vaccines currently available.
The Sporns said they hope people continue getting vaccinated, but also want their father's story to raise awareness for the need to take added precautions.
"It's just extremely sad and, you know, everybody does a what if," Bonnie Sporn said. "So we're trying to help people with their what ifs. What if this person has a pre-existing condition? Should they get the vaccine? Should they be monitored? Should they still wear masks until... until when?"
Sporn's obituary states that he "made friends where ever he went -- in school, traveling and through work."
"He left a warm and loving impression on everyone he met, even if it was for just a brief meeting," the obituary read. "He knew people in every city he visited and even knew the airlines that got you directly to that city. He did not know a stranger. Alan was so generous with his time and love. He was a very loyal friend, a mentor, and a philanthropist. To honor Alan please do something nice for someone or reach out to an old an old friend."
Don’t be stupid. East Virginia Medical School’s covid treatment protocols include IVM. They have recently joined FLCCC re. covid treatment protocols.
Everyone should read these protocols because they work.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
One of the most evil things I’ve seen in my lifetime is the blacklisting of covid treatments that work by the political and media elites. That evil should not appear here on FR.
https://c19early.com/
https://c19legacy.com/
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Too bad the political doctors wouldn’t give him the HCQ course or the Ivermectin course...
The study did not use the “best use” protocol for Ivermectin Therapy and Hydroxichloroquin based therapy. They did not use i\the therapy with Zinc, within the first 10 days of the infection.
Since them Dr.Pierre Corey has stipulated its proper use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQcKdP7BQc
Ivermectin protocol is being used by thousands of front line health workers as prophylaxis:
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FRONT LINE COVID-19 CRITICAL CARE ALLIANCE PROPHYLAXIS & TREATMENT PROTOCOLS FOR COVID-19 PROPHYLAXIS PROTOCOL lvermectin Prophylaxis for high risk individuals
0.2 mg/kg * — one dose on day 1 and day 3, then take one dose weekly for 10 weeks, followed by one dose every 2 weeks** Post COVID-19 exposure prophylaxis *** 0.2 mg/kg * — one dose on day 1 and day 3 Vitamin D3 1,000–3,000 IU/day Vitamin C 1,000 mg twice a day Quercetin 250 mg/day Zinc 50 mg/day Melatonin 6 mg before bedtime (causes drowsiness) EARLY OUTPATIENT PROTOCOL
**** lvermectin 0.2 mg/kg * — one dose on day 1 and day 3 Vitamin D3 4,000 IU/day Vitamin C 2,000 mg 2–3 times daily Quercetin 250 mg twice a day Zinc 1 0 0 m g/d ay Melatonin 10 mg before bedtime (causes drowsiness) Aspirin 325 mg/day (unless contraindicated) * ≈ 0.09 mg/lb per dose (take on an empty stomach with water). Example for a per - son of 60 kg (body weight): 60 kg × 0.2 mg = 12 mg — please see conversion table (kg lbs) on page 2 to calculate the appropriate ivermectin dose. ** This dosing may be updated as further scientific studies emerge. *** To use if a household member is COVID-19 positive, or you have prolonged exposure to a COVID-19 positive patient without wearing a mask **** For late phase — hospitalized patients — see the FLCCC’s MATH+ Hospital Treat ment Protocol for COVID-19 on www.flccc.n
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-I-MASK-Protocol-v4-2020-11-22.pdf
Ahhh censorship. The last bastion of the desperate. Of course I know personally that these medications don’t work. So there is always that whole clinical experience thing.
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I have no doubt that Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are good anti-virals. However, if your immune system has been compromised by a vaccine, rendering you vulnerable through immunopathology, nothing will help your vulnerability. Did you read the study?
Ivermectin and HCq are not cures and could not have saved him. But thanks for the continued propaganda that puts people at risk.
“DITGS”
Do keep in mind that those doing the work on ivermectin are real MDs with real names.
While I assume you are some kind of Dr., you are also an anonymous internet person who claims to be a doctor. Are you? Shoot if I know. You seem a nice guy...
But in choosing between doctors stepping forth with real identification vs. someone who is anonymous and claims to be a Dr., it seems wise to give credence to the verifiable Drs with verifiable credentials...
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
This study makes no predictions.
This study and others like it suggest that the nucleocapsid antigen is the most likely trigger for potential problems with immune response. Further, this study in particular specifically suggests targeting the S protein by itself:
“In this regard, animal model studies with FIPV in cats and RSV in mice have indicated that viral surface proteins may be the sensitizing protein of inactivated vaccines for immunopathology with infection. This suggests that presentation of the S protein in a vector format may direct immune responses in a different way so that sensitization does not occur.”
This was one of the reasons Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Novavax, and others chose to target the S protein specifically.
In other words, the vaccines we’re using today in the US do exactly what the study you link suggests is the safest path. So you should be happy about that.
After the inflammatory responses to vaccine doses caused a replication of Covid symptoms in some people it seemed this was an indication that the inflammatory response to Covid infection was the major mechanism of Covid symptioms and severe Covid-induced disease. That's clearly not the case. Direct viral effects AND immune/inflammatory responses to Covid can both kill you - and which of these is responsible can vary from patient to patient.
If administered, the Ivermectin protocol would have had an effect. Especially if given with the proper sister medications in large dosage.Better than doing nothing.
But I guess we all should just shrug and kiss our lives goodbye f we have been vaccinated?
I will start digging my own grave this afternoon, buy a new shovel, ........
I’m curious about the Salk study indicating possibility that COVID19 is a blood / vascular disease.
NO ONE in their right medical mind should have given a person with CLL a covid vaccination.
Period.
And to give another Pfizer vaccination 3 weeks later was criminal.
People with CLL do NOT have an immune system that can withstand this kind of attack whether they are in remission or not!
A those in the regime THREATENING no travel without these unapproved vaccinations are guilty of murdering this poor gentleman.
Threatening people with NO PRIVILEGES unless they get these vaccinations is CRIMINAL.
“Of course I know personally that these medications don’t work.”
Why then you should go straighten out the East Virginia Medical School and the FLCCC!
Here’s links, have at it!
https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
Rather bizarre statement as are the Freepvaxxers on here who attack relentlessly anyone who speaks against or questions the jab. So it comes down to what will kill someone statistically as we take into account our own health situation. "safe and effective" is not one size fits all. The Freeper gets the shot and says what's the problem trust the science as another Freeper has problems such as a compromised immune system where science has little data.
Run for your lives!
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