Category: natural immunity

WHO: Omicron Could Trigger Global Pandemic Surge; Will Existing Immunity Work Against Omicron?

Why has the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new, heavily-mutated coronavirus variant Omicron a “variant of concern?” How is it that the next-in-line letters of the Greek alphabet, Nu and Xi, were skipped in the naming of this strain? Observing the different responses around the world to Omicron triggers recollection of the “early days”…


Dr. Harvey Risch: Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Other Therapeutics Highly Effective in Early COVID Treatment

“These drugs have been suppressed… for reasons that have nothing to do with the science and the medicine.” In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. He says therapeutics, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, can be highly effective…


Facts Matter (Nov. 29): New Study Shows Naturally Immune People at Little Risk of Reinfection, Severe Disease

According to a new study that came out of Qatar and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, those who have already suffered from COVID-19, and therefore have natural immunity, are very well protected against future infections. In fact, this study found that among the people who already had COVID-19, only 0.4 percent…


Naturally Immune People at Little Risk of Reinfection, Severe Disease From COVID-19: Study

People who recovered from COVID-19 are at little risk of contracting the disease again, according to a study published this week. Researchers in Qatar examined a cohort of over 353,000 people using national databases that contain information about patients with polymerase-chain-reaction-confirmed infections. The studied population contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, between…


Could Boosters Backfire?—Dr. Paul Alexander on Booster Shots, Natural Immunity, and the Failures of Lockdowns | PART 1

“We do not know how the immune system is going to react to so much boosting. Why? Because the vaccine developers did not study it.” In this two-part episode, we sit down with Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Paul Alexander, an expert in evidence-based medicine, research methodology, and clinical epidemiology. He served in the Trump administration in…


Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Bill Demanding Natural Immunity information from HHS

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced a bill Friday to force federal health agencies to provide more information on natural immunity against COVID-19. The bill, called the Natural Immunity Transparency Act (pdf), demands Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to submit a report to Congress on natural immunity to COVID-19. “The Biden administration and…


Pandemic Response ‘Politicized, Self-Destructive’: Immunologist Steven Templeton

Lockdowns, school closures, universal masking, vaccine mandate; these responses to COVID-19 are “self-destructive” and more politicized than scientific, according to immunologist Steven Templeton. Templeton once worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for four years. Now he’s an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University. This week he shared his…


Court Blasts Biden’s Anti-Work Vaccine Mandate

Commentary Working Americans got good news on Friday. They may not have to worry about getting laid off because of qualms about the COVID-19 vaccine. A federal appeals court suspended the Biden administration’s attempt to mandate the shots at private sector workplaces with 100 or more employees. Under President Joe Biden’s order, which would go…


Facts Matter (Nov. 15): Letter From CDC Admits They Have ZERO Record of Naturally Immune People Transmitting Virus

After a year of debate on the topic of natural immunity, there has been a new development. According to a letter from the CDC—which came as a response to a freedom of information request—the CDC admits to having no records of anyone in the entire country who got COVID-19, recovered, got reinfected, and then spread…


CDC: No Record of Naturally Immune Transmitting COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says it has no record of people who are naturally immune transmitting the virus that causes COVID-19. The federal health agency was asked during the fall by a lawyer on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network for documents “reflecting any documented case of an individual who: (1) never received…