MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 :
"Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen septic inflammation associated with COVID-19 infection
[...] The protection was mediated by long-lived myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) previously reported inhibiting septic inflammation and mortality in several experimental models.
[...] The milder symptoms seen in the 955 sailors on the U.S.S Roosevelt who tested positive for COVID-19 (only one hospitalization) may have been a consequence of the fact that the MMR vaccinations are given to all U.S. Navy recruits. In addition, epidemiological data suggest a correlation between people in geographical locations who routinely receive the MMR vaccine and reduced COVID-19 death rates. COVID-19 has not had a big impact on children, and the researchers hypothesize that one reason children are protected against viral infections that induce sepsis is their more recent and more frequent exposures to live attenuated vaccines that can also induce the trained suppressive MDSCs that limit inflammation and sepsis."
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:30PM (1 child)
One nurse in a city 50 miles from here faked the vaccination procedure for over 500 children, went to national news. Nobody cared to publish stats about the difference between vaxxed and unvaxxed in terms of health in the intervening months. In fact, she was found out not because the lil guys fell more ill or harder, but because the colleagues noticed those kids didn't cry after getting the vaccine.
So, I don't think that many comparative stats will get out.
Another data point, SIDS (unexplained death for children) decline during lockdown. Some antivaxxers say: SIDS went down, vaccinations went down, interesting correlation ain't it?
Local debunking sites answer: your data is anecdotal, plus there is a study in 2018 that says that SIDS and vax are uncorrelated. So, basically an ad hominem and an argument ab auctoritate. Uhmmm, debunking by citing stats who say SIDS did not in fact go down are missing, so they didn't. https://www.oltre.tv/sids-e-vaccinazioni-grafici-lockdown-genitori/ [oltre.tv]
So, I don't think that anybody cares about SIDS either.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:54PM
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