epitope Archives

What Makes SARS-CoV-2 More Infectious.

12 February 2022

The Role Of The RBM:ACE2 Interface. A little over a year ago, we set out how increased infectiousness meant greater vulnerability, i.e. a new variant may be more infectious but it is also more susceptible to destruction by the innate immune response. The chances are that most people now know what a structural spike protein […]

Yet Another Virus That Provides SARS-CoV-2 Immunity.

15 November 2021

Background. It is difficult to select the most fundamental error relating to SARS-CoV-2: the deliberate confusion of ‘infectiousness’ with ‘infectivity’; the deliberate use of ‘COVID-19’ disease severity when one is referring to ‘SARS-CoV-2’ viral infection, for example ‘rising COVID-19 infections’ when there is no such thing; the use of ‘vaccination’ when the correct description is […]

SARS-COV-2’s Defences Against Detection.

18 May 2021

What Variants Want. Considerable coverage is being given to variant B1.617. This is the ‘Indian’ variant if you use the incorrect basis of giving single country, geographical names to variants that appear globally across multiple variants and are not new, having been in existence for months and in some cases, over a year. As part […]

Is Ivermectin Another ‘Wonderdrug’?

21 April 2021

Is This Remdesivirmania Redux? Ivermectin is the subject of increasing coverage and concomitant hysteria around it being another ‘wonderdrug’ for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. It has been touted as a potential treatment since the days of remdesivir, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir. We picked apart remdesivir in October 2020, days after it was approved by the […]

The ‘Third Wave’ That Has Been Here All Along.

24 March 2021

B1.1.7 v B1.1.28 v B1.351. As we have previously explained, SARS-CoV-2 neither thinks nor acts geographically. Yet the misleading designation of SARS-CoV-2 variants on a geographical basis continues to dominate media coverage and government obsession, with the putative ‘third wave’ being down to either the Brazilian variant or the UK variant dependent upon whether you […]

Mutation Makes A Vaccine Useless.

20 December 2020

Epitopes And Paratopes. Apparently the killer virus of death (the one that continues to not kill people, especially those it infects) has now mutated into an even more killer strain. If that’s true – which it isn’t, read on to find out why – then wonderdrug vaccine BNT126b2 is nothing of the sort: it was […]

An antiviral maybe but a vaccine isn’t needed and wouldn’t be effective.

20 October 2020

Apparently everything now hangs on a vaccine: stockmarkets rise and fall on the mere rumour of how the rumoured development of a particular rumoured COVID-19 vaccine is going; politicians say that normality can’t be resumed until a vaccine is available; people are fed the line that a virus must have a vaccine and that without […]