SARS-CoV Archives

How Low Is The SARS-CoV-2 Mortality Rate?

13 September 2021

We All Grew Up With Coronaviruses, As Did All Our Ancestors. To understand the relevance of mortality rate, you have to appreciate that coronaviruses first became pathogenic to humans in the range 12,000 – 10,000 years ago, as a consequence of the first interaction between humans and livestock that occurred in the early Holocene. Mankind […]

Antibody-Dependent Enhancement And This Rushed ‘Vaccine’.

19 January 2021

What is Antibody-Dependent Enhancement? As we have set out previously, it takes 10-15 years to develop a vaccine. This timescale is entirely understandable and justifiable when you consider that the vaccine has to be both effective and safe. Safe includes not causing unacceptable side effects, which include the vaccine or immune system’s response triggering autoimmunity, […]

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. […]