homology Archives

Tests That Would Have Saved Thousands.

13 May 2021

UK COVID-19 mortality rate remains one of the highest in the world. On a population-adjusted basis (for fair comparison) the UK mortality rate is 4.36x the worldwide average, which means there have been an additional 98,364 deaths in the UK (@0500UTC 13/05/21, source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center/Worldmeters). Deaths that were avoidable. One of the […]

WHO Shows PCR Testing Gets It Wrong.

21 January 2021

What Is Nucleic Acid Testing? Nucleic acid testing, more commonly known as PCR or RT-PCR testing, is one of the three main types of viral testing. There is a full explanation of these three types here but concentrating on PCR testing, it tests a sample for tiny fragments of viral RNA. It shows only the […]

Exoribonuclease – Your Starter For Ten Mr Prime Minister.

30 December 2020

Q1. How can a virus containing an exoribonuclease mutate in the way you are saying? Coronaviruses possess an exoribonuclease within nonstructural protein 14 (nsp14-ExoN). This functions as a proofreader during viral transcription and encoding, ensuring high fidelity replication. This minimises the potential for mutation, as shown by the fact that sarbecovirus/lineage B betacoronaviruses with their […]

PCR Testing Is Picking Up The Common Cold.

23 December 2020

Mutation = Phylogenetic Evolution. Not content with inventing the most recent ‘killer mutation of death’, there are now apparently even more new strains of the ‘killer virus of death’ (the one that continues to not kill people, especially those it infects). There is now even one supposedly from South Africa (“this is an illegal mutating, […]

Having A Common Cold Is As Good As A Vaccine.

15 December 2020

Learn From The Common Cold. Pretty much everybody now knows that four coronaviruses cause the common cold: duvinacovirus alphacoronavirus HCoV-229E & setracovirus alphacoronavirus HCoV-NL63 and embecovirus or lineage A betacoronaviruses HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-OC43. That’s the common cold that you can catch over & over and which is dealt with by the innate immune system only, […]

The Common Cold And SARS-CoV-2 Immunity.

30 November 2020

No Vaccine Required. Is it possible that the common cold could can provide immunity through memory T cells to a significant proportion of a population? In recent articles we have highlighted various other reasons why a vaccine is not required. This include; those not at risk (that’s over 99%) don’t need one and those at […]

Déjà vu – memory T cells have seen SARS-CoV-2 before.

23 November 2020

Newly-Discovered Is Not New. In early September we first highlighted the incorrect designation of SARS-CoV-2 as a ‘novel’ or ‘new’ coronavirus when it should have been designated ‘newly-discovered’. There is a subtle but fundamental difference: something that is new did not previously exist whereas something that is newly-discovered already existed but not been discovered yet. […]