Allemagne : 9 000 personnes pourraient avoir été vaccinées contre le Covid avec de l'eau salée

Dans le nord de l'Allemagne, une infirmière appartenant au personnel médical de la Croix-Rouge aurait, selon les autorités locales, remplacé le vaccin Pfizer contre le Covid par de l'eau salée : près de 9 000 personnes pourraient être concernées. S'agit-il d'une opération antivax ?

90% de contaminations en moins entre personnes entièrement vaccinées

Malgré ces résultats positifs, il est important de tenir compte de certaines remarques.
 
Cette étude a été réalisée à une période où le variant Alpha était dominant en Belgique. Il est possible que la protection contre le variant Delta soit moins efficace. Les chercheurs ne disposent toutefois pas encore d’informations concrètes à ce sujet. De plus, cette étude ne contient aucune donnée provenant du traçage des contacts dans les maisons de repos et de soins par exemple, qui se déroule via un système distinct. Il est possible que la protection vaccinale chez les personnes âgées soit plus faible que dans la population active. Dans ce cas également, les chercheurs ne disposent pas des informations nécessaires.
 
Enfin, la grande majorité des résultats des tests effectués pendant la période d’étude provenaient de personnes non vaccinées. Il  n’a pas été possible de se prononcer de manière fiable sur la protection induite par les vaccins d’AstraZeneca et de Janssen, avec lesquels seulement un nombre limité de personnes avaient été immunisées entièrement fin juin. Sciensano souligne également qu’une transmission de l’infection entre personnes vaccinées est toujours possible et qu’il est donc important que chacun respecte les règles en vigueur.

Covid-19 : C.1.2, tout ce que l'on sait sur ce nouveau variant identifié en Afrique du Sud
 
il mute très rapidement
 
Plus précisément, son taux de mutation atteint 41,8 par an. Il est ainsi deux fois plus élevé que celui des autres variants connus.

Une nouvelle mutation du virus de la Covid-19 inquiète les scientifiques
 
Sa spécificité? Selon plusieurs épidémiologistes dont l'américain Eric Feigl-Ding, dont le suivi de l'épidémie est quotidien, il serait bien plus contagieux que les autres variants et rendrait les vaccins inefficaces.  
 
Ce variant a déjà été détecté en Angleterre, en Suisse, au Portugal, à l'Ile Maurice, en Chine et en Nouvelle-Zélande.

Julie Smith filed the lawsuit on behalf of her husband of 24 years. He tested positive for COVID-19 July 9, was hospitalized and admitted to the ICU July 15, and was sedated and intubated and placed on a ventilator Aug. 1. He later developed a secondary infection he's still wrestling with as of Aug. 23, court records say.
 
The lawsuit doesn't mention whether Jeffrey Smith is vaccinated against COVID-19. However, overwhelming majorities of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated — data from the Ohio Department of Health shows of roughly 21,000 Ohioans hospitalized with COVID-19 since Jan. 1, only about 500 were vaccinated.
 
Julie Smith found Ivermectin on her own and connected with Dr. Fred Wagshul, an Ohio physician who her lawsuit identifies as "one of the foremost experts on using Ivermectin in treating COVID-19." He prescribed the drug, and the hospital refused to administer it.
 
A hospital spokeswoman said she can't comment on litigation and federal patient privacy laws prevent her from commenting on any specifics of patient care.
 
Smith is represented by New York attorney Ralph Lorigo, the chairman of New York's Erie County Conservative Party, who has successfully filed one similar case against a Chicago area hospital and two more in Buffalo. He did not respond to an email or phone call.
 
The Ohio lawsuit makes reference to the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, a nonprofit of which Wagshul is listed as a founding physician. The organization touts Ivermectin as both a preventative and treatment for COVID-19. Its "How To Get Ivermectin" section includes prices and locations of pharmacies that will supply it, from Afghanistan to Fort Lauderdale to Pennsylvania to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 
In an interview, Wagshul said the science behind Ivermectin's use in COVID-19 patients is "irrefutable." The CDC and FDA engaged in a "conspiracy," he said, to block its use to protect the FDA's emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccines. He said the mainstream media and social media companies have been engaging in "censorship" on Ivermectin's merits, and that the U.S. government's refusal to acknowledge its benefits amounts to genocide.
 
"If we were a country looking at another country allowing those [COVID-19] deaths daily … we would have been screaming, 'Genocide!'" he said.
 
Wagshul said he had no financial interest in the sale of Ivermectin.
 
Dr. Leanne Chrisman-Khawam, a physician and professor at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, called the FLCCCA "snake oil salesmen." She reviewed the association's research on the drug's uses and said there are some serious problems with its cited studies: many of them don't show positive results, and those that do bear design flaws like small control groups, unaccounted for variables, non-blinded studies, not accounting for mitigations like vaccines and masking practices, and others.
 
"Based on evidence-based medicine and my read on this large number of small studies, I would find this very suspect, even the positive outcomes," she said.
 
Several state authorities declined to comment on the matter. Cameron McNamee, a spokesman for the state Board of Pharmacy, referred inquiries to the state Medical Board, the attorney general, and the Ohio Hospital Association.