{"id":29401,"date":"2020-09-06T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29401"},"modified":"2020-09-06T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T02:19:12","slug":"flu-shot-more-acute-covid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29401","title":{"rendered":"Flu Shot = More Acute COVID Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This extensively bibliographed article highlights the fact that a flu shot has the distinct potential of setting you up for a more severe reaction if you become infected with SARS-CoV-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A previous virus or vaccine (ie flu shot) may set up one&#8217;s immune system for a dangerous covid response.<br>\n&#8220;Facilitating antibody phenomenon is an &#8216;inadequate&#8217; response to a new virus infection in which antibodies present against the virus will worsen the infection. These antibodies have been produced following a first infection (or vaccination) with a related virus (or more rarely with the same virus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;\u2026a recent (January 2020) article in the vaccine-industry-funded journal Vaccine, (Wolff GC, 2020) shows that prior vaccination against seasonal influenza may make people more susceptible to infection with coronaviruses\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;\u2026Several studies show that influenza vaccination in children may lead to increased susceptibility to other viral respiratory infections\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This phenomenon of non-specific facilitation should be studied to find its mechanism (which should not involve ADE because influenza viruses and coronaviruses are too far apart antigenically).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aimsib.org\/en\/2020\/08\/23\/covid-graves-admettre-lexistence-des-anticorps-facilitateurs\/\">https:\/\/www.aimsib.org\/en\/2020\/08\/23\/covid-graves-admettre-lexistence-des-anticorps-facilitateurs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extensively bibliographed article highlights the fact that a flu shot has the distinct potential of setting you up for a more severe reaction if you become infected with SARS-CoV-1. A previous virus or vaccine (ie flu shot) may set up one&#8217;s immune system for a dangerous covid response. &#8220;Facilitating antibody phenomenon is an &#8216;inadequate&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flu Shot = More Acute COVID Infection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29402,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29401\/revisions\/29402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}