Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

Cancer incidence rates overall and for most specific cancers approached pre-pandemic levels, with no significant rebound to account for the 2020 decline. However, in addition to an uptick in new diagnoses of advanced breast cancer in 2021, the data also provided some evidence of an increase in diagnoses of advanced pancreatic cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2024/covid-pandemic-impact-on-new-cancer-diagnoses

Viruses have been known to accelerate cancer since the 1960s, and researchers contend that a quarter of all cancers worldwide originated with HPV, Epstein-Barr virus, and hepatitis B.

They cannot definitively rule out the Covid vaccines as playing a role, but believe the evidence supporting the virus theory to be much stronger.

Lab tests suggest that coronavirus proteins can reawaken dormant cancer cells and fuel their growth, increasing the odds of being diagnosed with breast, stomach, and blood cancers.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13502221/rare-cancers-covid-pandemic-effects-theory.html

Top oncologists weigh in on the rise of rare and unusual cancers in young people - and the links to Covid

Preliminary research on cells has indicated the virus may fuel the growth of tumors and shut down the body's defense against them - but the theory is widely disputed.

There is, however a consensus among doctors: they're seeing more young and relatively healthy people with obscure forms of the disease after the pandemic. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13506321/cancer-Covid-infection-supercharge-tumors.html

His team 'didn't find anything' to support the idea that the Covid shot drove up cancer rates.

The evidence supporting the virus theory appears to be much stronger, he added.

Dr Landau acknowledged that although there have been blood clot issues after the Covid vaccine, 'a clear link with development of cancer is not yet known.'

'We suspect the cancer risk would come from the virus itself, rather than the vaccine, but it will take years of follow up studies to truly understand this,' he said. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13506321/cancer-Covid-infection-supercharge-tumors.html

Covid might be to blame for an uptick in rare cancers

Rare types of cancer are showing up in higher numbers since the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors suspect that the virus itself may be contributing to the higher cancer rates, despite a solid connection not yet being established. The pandemic may have permanently altered the bodies of those infected, making them more susceptible to cancer. Those affected include people who were otherwise previously healthy. (...)

Doctors have identified a marked increase in late-stage rarer cancers in people who had otherwise been healthy. Lung, blood and colon cancer, especially, have been rising in younger people. Specifically, medical experts have observed a rise in new cancer patients, multiple patients with multiple cancers, couples and siblings developing cancer within months of each other and cancer patients relapsing after years of remission. https://theweek.com/health/covid-19-rare-cancers

Our findings provide evidence of the spike protein hijacking the DNA damage repair machinery and adaptive immune machinery in vitro. We propose a potential mechanism by which spike proteins may impair adaptive immunity by inhibiting DNA damage repair. Although no evidence has been published that SARS–CoV–2 can infect thymocytes or bone marrow lymphoid cells, our in vitro V(D)J reporter assay shows that the spike protein intensely impeded V(D)J recombination. Consistent with our results, clinical observations also show that the risk of severe illness or death with COVID–19 increases with age, especially older adults who are at the highest risk [22]. This may be because SARS–CoV–2 spike proteins can weaken the DNA repair system of older people and consequently impede V(D)J recombination and adaptive immunity. In contrast, our data provide valuable details on the involvement of spike protein subunits in DNA damage repair, indicating that full–length spike–based vaccines may inhibit the recombination of V(D)J in B cells, which is also consistent with a recent study that a full–length spike–based vaccine induced lower antibody titers compared to the RBD–based vaccine [28]. This suggests that the use of antigenic epitopes of the spike as a SARS–CoV–2 vaccine might be safer and more efficacious than the full–length spike. Taken together, we identified one of the potentially important mechanisms of SARS–CoV–2 suppression of the host adaptive immune machinery. Furthermore, our findings also imply a potential side effect of the full–length spike–based vaccine. This work will improve the understanding of COVID–19 pathogenesis and provide new strategies for designing more efficient and safer vaccines. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056

Sjukskrivningarna skenar – regeringen saknar svar på varför

Sjukskrivningarna i Sverige har skjutit i höjden och kostade landet 92 miljarder kronor under 2023. Det är en ökning med hela 14 miljarder kronor jämfört med året innan, enligt en rapport från Skandia. Samtidigt står psykisk ohälsa nu för nästan hälften av alla sjukskrivningar. https://www.msn.com/sv-se/nyheter/other/sjukskrivningarna-skenar-regeringen-saknar-svar-p%C3%A5-varf%C3%B6r/ar-AA1xK8LO

– Stressrelaterade diagnoser är vanligast i kvinnodominerade yrken, som vård, skola och omsorg, oftast inom offentlig sektor.

Research suggests that as many as 90% of individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 25% of non-hospitalized adults experience at least one brain or mind-related symptom, including fatigue, headache, sleep disturbances, depression, or anxiety, six months after the illness. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/depression-and-anxiety-in-long-covid-why-interdisciplinary-treatment-is-needed