Monthly Archive - October 2021

COMIRNATY – Another conspiracy group?

Andrew Chuma No Comments

“Comirnaty” is not a modern wing of the Illuminati or the FreeMasons. It’s also not a syndicate of wealthy organizations like the Pentaverate, whose members include the Queen of England, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, the Vatican and Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (watch the hilarious YouTube clip from the movie “So I Married an Axe Murderer” by Mike Myers. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRFlNryaWw ).

Comirnaty is the Pfizer brand name of their Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. It’s like Claritin is the brand name of the generic antihistamine molecule loratadine, or Zithromax is the brand name for antibiotic molecule azithromycin. Both of those drugs are made in generic versions, not exactly like the original, but still containing the same active ingredients with similar safety profiles.

There is a rumour floating around that the fully FDA-approved version of the vaccine, Comirnaty, is still not available in the US. 

This is untrue. It is available and it is being administered regularly.

To be clear, there ARE differences between the version of the vaccine approved for emergency use and the version which is now fully FDA approved. The company itself acknowledges this on their website. However, the active ingredients in Cominarty, those which lead to our protective immune response, are exactly the same as the ones which were approved for emergency use, and the ones which in fact had much more extensive testing. Furthermore, the efficacy and the complication rates are also exactly the same as well. Basically, the differences are some of the supporting compounds, which are inert and pose no threat that we know of. 

Is there still some of the non-fully FDA approved, but emergency use-approved vaccine out there? Sure. There were millions of doses distributed and continue to be available and they need to be used up before the newer products are provided. Makes sense. Why waste the vaccines? They are essentially exactly the same. Billions of people worldwide are clamoring for vaccines, yet we waste thousands of doses every day. It’s shameful. 

I am not sure which booster I got, other than it was the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. And honestly, I don’t care. It works and it is safe and that is all I need to know. I am protected, and more importantly, everyone I come into contact with is better protected because I am vaccinated.

As a physician who sees many patients a day and operates on many patients, I can give you my personal experience. I have done many airway, head and neck and tracheostomy procedures on Covid patients. I have yet to operate on anyone as a result of vaccination. Although I see occasional patients who get some tinnitus (ringing) in their ears after vaccination, the rate of this complaint is 0.025% of vaccinated patients as compared with the tinnitus rate in the general population of almost 10%. In other words, the chances that you have ringing is more than 20x higher because you are old, stressed or are taking meds which cause ringing, than because you got the vaccine! On the other hand, I have seen plenty of Covid patients with loss of smell and taste lasting for many months after their illness. I have seen many Covid patients with other complaints as well such as headaches and brain fog and I have spoken to countless patients who have had friends and relatives die from Covid. None of these issues have come up after vaccination. I am an N of 1 but I can tell you that the colleagues I discuss these issues with in my community have similar observations. Covid makes you sick and can kill, but vaccination does not. Our local hospitals have almost nothing but unvaccinated Covid patients in them.

It’s a new disease and it’s a new vaccine, although it started being developed 15 years ago. I appreciate that we don’t know the long term side effects from this vaccine but we never know the long term risks of anything, until its long term. But we do know it has been shown to be safe during the time we have used it. We also know however that this virus has killed over 750,000 in the US. You can argue about the exact numbers but even if you accept a significant fudge factor, the numbers are still staggering. Approaching 5 million deaths worldwide. Let me repeat that: 5 million people dead from this controllable virus, and countless disabled because of severe illness.

Please get vaccinated if you have not done so yet. Approval for kids over 5 is on the way and that will help a lot. More people vaccinated means that less virus will spread around, the virus has less of an opportunity to mutate into a more worrisome form and fewer people will get sick and possibly die. Eventually, even the unvaccinated will be protected. But not because they did the right thing by waiting but because everyone else did the right, and unselfish thing, and protected them by getting vaccinated. I got your back. Do you have mine?

In the meantime, please continue to do all the other important protective things like wearing a mask, distancing and ventilating, practicing good hygiene and getting healthy. 

Enjoy the YouTube clip, Ya Bastarrrrrd. Here is the link to the video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRFlNryaWw

Stay safe and be well.

AC

New Variant – Here We Go Again!

Andrew Chuma No Comments

The numbers of new Covid cases are starting to climb once again in Britain and a new strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus is emerging. AY.4.2 is a variant of the worldwide dominant Delta variant. Last week, it accounted for 6% of new cases. This new variant has been identified elsewhere in Europe, as well as in the US. Although it is early, it appears that it may be even more infectious than the Delta variant. As a reminder, Delta is 5x more infectious than the original Wuhan virus and replicates 1000x more in the nose. It also causes worse disease and infects kids to a greater degree than the original form.

Two important issues here are that firstly, numbers are again on the rise in Britain, and as we have seen in every surge, the US follows trends in Britain. Secondly, this virus will continue to mutate as long as it is allowed to replicate. And although vaccinated people can get infected and re-infected, the rates are significantly lower than the rates in unvaccinated people. In addition, in those vaccinated individuals who do get infected, the duration and degree of infectiousness is much shorter. 98% of all Covid deaths, including in pregnant women, are in unvaccinated people. Simply put, vaccination dramatically slows down this virus.

I deleted a longer rant written out about the sad indifference and resistance to vaccination, not wanting to deal with the vitriolic aftermath it would probably have led to. I’m tired of repeating the message, but it’s important. Science evolves and the recommendations honest and objective doctors and scientists make adjust to that knowledge. The clear fact is that the information we continue to collect about this virus, the disease it causes and vaccination is that 1) you do not want to catch this virus and get this disease, and that 2) vaccination is safe and effective at preventing it or minimizing its effects. Vaccination is not the only way out, but it’s the best step you can take to protect yourself. But more importantly, it’s the best step you can take to protect everyone else.

All those other things remain important.

MASK UP. Wear a good one and wear it correctly.

DISTANCE and VENTILATE.

HYGIENE measures remain important, but you can stop Windexing your bananas.

VACCINATE, not only against Covid, but also the flu and whatever other communicable diseases we have vaccines against.

GET HEALTHY.

Stay safe and be well.

AC

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