{"id":34221,"date":"2021-08-13T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=34221"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T06:25:38","slug":"kochs-4-postulates-apparently-cannot-be-applied-to-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=34221","title":{"rendered":"Koch&#8217;s 4 postulates apparently cannot be applied to a virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"3n9p6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3n9p6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3n9p6-0-0\">I wish to share a correction that may burst some people&#8217;s bubbles.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"124em-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"124em-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"124em-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"1o3bd-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1o3bd-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1o3bd-0-0\">Koch&#8217;s 4 postulates apparently cannot be applied to a virus as a virus cannot grow without being in a cell.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"4jhar-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4jhar-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4jhar-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"56hb3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"56hb3-0-0\"><span class=\"py34i1dx\"><span data-offset-key=\"56hb3-0-0\">https:\/\/www.auckland.ac.nz\/en\/news\/2020\/11\/16\/kochs-postulates-covid-and-misinformation-rabbit-holes.html<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"dcamq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dcamq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dcamq-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"dm6sg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dm6sg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dm6sg-0-0\">But the elephant in the room that main stream medicine and the media almost completely ignore is this gem:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"23eo1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"23eo1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"23eo1-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"e0rs4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e0rs4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e0rs4-0-0\">&#8220;many microbes can live in and on people and only cause disease under certain circumstances&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"7vtnq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7vtnq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7vtnq-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"c7n8e-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c7n8e-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c7n8e-0-0\">Which is what we are observing with COVID. The vast majority of the deaths are in people with comorbidities!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"32tpv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"32tpv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"32tpv-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f53iu\" data-offset-key=\"ar9sa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ar9sa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ar9sa-0-0\">So where is the race to determine how to help us all get healthy so we are more infection resistant?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish to share a correction that may burst some people&#8217;s bubbles. \u00a0 Koch&#8217;s 4 postulates apparently cannot be applied to a virus as a virus cannot grow without being in a cell. \u00a0 https:\/\/www.auckland.ac.nz\/en\/news\/2020\/11\/16\/kochs-postulates-covid-and-misinformation-rabbit-holes.html \u00a0 But the elephant in the room that main stream medicine and the media almost completely ignore is this gem: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=34221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Koch&#8217;s 4 postulates apparently cannot be applied to a virus&#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-34221","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\/34221","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=34221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34224,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221\/revisions\/34224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}