SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Dying in large numbers isn’t the best way to develop herd immunity, imo

 

I don't happen to know offhand whether getting smallpox also risks those effects. They're definitely reported as effects you risk from getting COVID.

 

That is interesting. Is it possible that a medication can create a known virus, or could it be that if you have the virus lurking in you, it stimulates it or ‘wakes it up’?

 

I've heard of more than one person who will not get the flu shot because it gives them.........the flu.
Of course nobody throws shade at them because influenza is not a political disease.

I do not think that anyone in this forum fits these categories except for me....someone who is a "vax denier" by MSM standards.
(Believes in vaccinations, including mandated vaccines under certain "unprecedented" circumstances....)

 

It is a monoclonal antibody that makes use of the immune system to fight some specific forms of lung cancer.Perhapsm because it taxes the body, you are more susceptible to catching COVID-19. The drub does not say it weakens the immune system though.

 

I believe all that is saying is that patients on the drug in the trials caught COVID-19 statistically more than those on the placebo. Perhaps the drug does make people more susceptible to getting the infection, or perhaps it was a fluke, like a bunch of those on it attended a superspreader event.

Edit: We are also talking about a treatment for lung cancer. The cough and fever under serious side effects can be from flu, cold, or any other respiratory infection. COVID was probably the only one identified through testing.

 

Chemotherapy definitely wipes out a body's immune system making you susceptible to most everything that you can get. When my better ½ was in chemo, she contracted C diff. It can sometimes be fatal as your body dehydrates from gut conditions - where all bacteria are all wiped out, while the C diff continues to thrive - unabated by all the bacteria that would otherwise keep it in check.

 

This is not normal Chemotherapy though. Chemotherapy generally tries to kill the cancer cells and spare most of the non-cancerous ones. This works differently.

 

It's done in conjunction with chemotherapy; specifically, carboplatin + pemetrexed

 

That is one way. I know of a couple of others but my wife has done one cycle so far of this one. the chemotherapy is only given during the first week of that cycle and the side effects listed were for that drug alone. there is another combination known to induce blood clots.