The Good News—A COVID-19 Update

American Thinker.com ^ | August 25, 2021 | Thomas D. Siler, MD

[Kaslin]

Now that we have had 18 months to “slow the spread” it is time to take stock of the pandemic. We have learned many good things that the media and our pandemic managers rarely report. Most fundamentally, we do not need to be afraid of COVID-19 anymore. The media and some government health authorities are still pushing hysteria and fear, but that should not prevail. Let’s look at the good news that can calm our fears about COVID-19. There’ll be time at a later date to look at the bad and the ugly of the resolving pandemic.

1) Globally, the survival rate for COVID-19 is 99.8%. Under the age of 70, the survival rate for COVID-19 is 99.97%. This is on par with many influenza seasons. Americans younger than 70 do not have to fear COVID-19 any more than influenza and we know how to protect the elderly.

2) Herd immunity for the alpha strain is here. Sixty-seven percent of the American population have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination. The official number of cases is about 10% of the population, but several antibody studies show that the percentage of those with natural immunity is 4-6 times higher. Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins professor, estimates that 80-85% of the population is immune from natural immunity and vaccination. Those who deny this must explain how cases and deaths started to decline in January way before there was a significant vaccine effort. COVID-19 will not go away. Instead, we are transitioning now from a pandemic to endemic status and, indeed, some eminent virologists say vaccinating in the middle of a pandemic is making herd immunity more difficult to obtain through the creation of variants.

[laplata]

“Can our pandemic managers take some of this useful information and transform it into helpful public health policies from this point forward”?

That’s highly unlikely.

[Libloather]

Now I’m wondering if Ivermectin can be used as a preventative.

[Kartographer]

Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins professor, estimates that 80-85% of the population is immune from natural immunity and vaccination.
Has this so called natural immunity been approved by any government agency?
Who and in what Lab was it developed? This isn't some weird natural/faith cure is it? You know something develop by some God or a so called 'higher power' is it? How could it possible be better than the VAXX which was developed by the greatest minds in medicine and in the most advanced state of the art labs known to man? Asking for a friend ;-)

[exnavy]

Vaxxing causes mutation and prolongs the problem.

[ducttape45]

I’ve been wondering the same thing.

[WinMod70]

Somewhat related. For those that took shot(s), are you going to take the booster(s)? I have in-laws, approximately 10, that got shots. My wife tells me that all have said that they are done and will take no more. I didn’t ask why, not my business or concern. I know one, male in 30’s, of them was in the ER 3 or 4 times over a 2 week period after getting the J&J shot. Very ill with mostly gastrointestinal issues and fever.

After the first 2-3 ER visits he was told it was related to the shot. The last visit he was told his gall bladder needed removed. He met with the surgeon for the pre-op consultation and scheduling. Well, the surgeon told him that he thought his issues were caused by the J&J shot and recommended he wait a few months and see he his problems go away. It’s been 2 months and the problems went away so no surgery.

I understand why he would opt out of any future shots and I suspect his story is partly why the other nine are passing on boosters, too. I think everyone of these folks took the shots to begin with was for no other reason than to travel. Odd priorities as far as I am concerned but other than telling my wife her family is f’n nuts I get into with any of them; none of my business.

[hardspunned]

No one makes a dime on herd immunity and the federal scare machine has no use for herd immunity.

[trebb]

I used Ivermectin for over 8 months - I believe I finally got a mild-cold case of the bug a few weeks ago. Headache for a day, smell and taste “softened” - bummer that chocolate tasted funny.
No fever or coughing but a few mild aches and lower energy for 4-5 days but was totally functional - not bed/chair-ridden. I stayed away from folks for about a week and felt good then and totally fine a few days after the week.
I had tapered the Ivermectin to about half dose for 6 or so weeks before and bumped it back up when symptoms began - odds are the residual in the system kept the bug at bay enough to prevent full blown case.
I never tested because the tests are worthless - and I wasn’t actually “sick”.
Gonna go under assumption it was the bug and I have immunity now - but will keep Iver and other items on hand.

[LilFarmer]

According to this it appears to be effective,

Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies
https://ivmmeta.com

More studies:

Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
May 11, 2021, 12:15 PM IST Vikas P. Sukhatme and Vidula V. Sukhatme in Voices, India, TOI***
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/existing-affordable-drugs-could-rapidly-reduce-covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-india/

*** Vikas P. Sukhatme MD, ScD, is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Medicine, Dean of Emory University School of Medicine, and Chief Academic Officer of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta

The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011

Attenuation of clinical and immunological outcomes during SARS-CoV-2 infection by ivermectin
EMBO Mol Med (2021)13:e14122https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202114122

Elucidation of the inhibitory activity of ivermectin with host nuclear importin α and several SARS-CoV-2 targets
https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2021.1911857

The broad spectrum host-directed agent ivermectin as an antiviral for SARS-CoV-2 ?
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.10.042

COVID Deaths Plunge After Mexico City Introduces Ivermectin
https://principia-scientific.com/covid-deaths-plunge-after-mexico-city-introduces-ivermectin/

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If someone meets the criteria and gets Covid, monoclonal antibodies appear to be very effective as well but has to be started early

Hubby and I don’t qualify for it, so he is taking ivermectin plus supplements as a preventative as he is around a lot of people daily and I am not, so I’m taking Vit c, zinc, d3, and quercertin

[Salvey]

Now I’m wondering if Ivermectin can be used as a preventative.

My physician says Yes.

[knarf]

I'm not sure COVID was actually part of a master social engineering plan, but it IS convenient to prelude the propaganda attack about to be foisted on our kids.

Remember .... the anti-smoking surge began in the public schools.

Our kids brought that message home to us (parents) from school and it was relentlessly repeated until, after many successful and expensive law suits the smoking population dropped significantly in the United States.

Anyone paying attention must admit that there's been a word and concept inserted into the jargon surrounding "school" .... safety.

I think COVID is effectively being incorporated into the already started propaganda of "global wartming" and/or "climate change" HERE

[hopespringseternal]

And then the number of people smoking jumped again when they upped the taxes on tobacco and the government suddenly halted all the anti-smoking ads.

I remember it well. When I started college hardly any college age kids smoked. Four years later fully half of them were smoking.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

How would you know if you have natural immunity against Covid?

Does it show up in a blood test?

I've never had the vax or been sick and I go out in public a lot.

[T Ruth]

Good post.

BTTT