The spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 by itself can lead to heart muscle injury through the inflammatory process, according to preliminary research to be presented this week at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions 2022. Medical Xpress has more.
The spike protein is found on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Spike proteins latch onto receptors known as angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) on target cells. The spike protein facilitates virus entry into healthy cells, which is the first step in infection. In addition to infecting the lungs, the virus can also spread to other organs leading to more damage to the body, severe infection and, among some people, death.
“It’s already known from the clinical side that COVID-19 infection can induce heart injury, however, what we don’t know is the mechanistic details of how this occurs. What we suspect is that the spike protein has unknown pathological roles,” said Zhiqiang Lin, Ph.D., lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the Masonic Medical Research Institute in Utica, New York. “Our data show that the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 causes heart muscle damage. That’s why it’s important to get vaccinated and prevent this disease.”
“Host natural immunity is the first line of defence against pathogen invasion, and heart muscle cells have their own natural immune machinery. Activation of the body’s immune response is essential for fighting against virus infection; however, this may also impair heart muscle cell function and even lead to cell death and heart failure,” Lin said.
The researchers studied whether the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activates the natural immune response in heart muscle cells. HCoV-NL63 is a coronavirus that infects the respiratory system without causing cardiac injury, although its spike protein also uses ACE2 to mediate virus entry. They studied the potential ability to cause heart disease of both SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and the NL63 spike protein. Their results showed that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activated the natural immune response in heart muscle cells and damaged the heart, but the NL63 spike protein did not.
“The fact that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is activating the natural immune response may explain the high virulence compared to the other coronaviruses,” Lin said. “The TLR4 signalling is the major pathway that activates the body’s natural immune response, and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activates TLR4, not the regular flu spike protein.”
Combined with the recent findings that spike protein from infection or vaccination can persist in the body for months and cause ongoing symptoms, the latest research indicates that spike protein may continue to attack the heart and may at least partly explain the high numbers of cardiovascular deaths in the last year. Since successive vaccine doses introduce further spike protein into the body, and risk of heart inflammation is known to increase with additional doses, this suggests that the vaccines are potentially seriously damaging to heart health. It is baffling why Dr. Lin would suggest vaccination protects against the spike protein harm he has described when it introduces spike protein into the body and is also known not to prevent infection. The evidence that the Covid vaccines should be withdrawn on safety grounds for most age groups continues to mount.
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Who’d have guessed?
Remember the “ward full of sick children” back in the winter? The one that didn’t exist, that some nurse just made up?
I don’t know what criteria they use in the US to classify “covid patients” but in the UK I do not believe there is any distinction made in the stats between those admitted for other reasons who happen to test positive (PCR) and those who have actual covid symptoms (and within those with covid symptoms, which were admitted for other reasons and caught covid in hospital). You’d think this information would be absolutely key, but I have never found it nor seen it referred to, and I am pretty sure JHB asked some minister about it and they said we don’t have those stats.
An acquaintance of mine has a toddler who shut his hand in a door and needed a small surgical procedure – they got PCR tested.
Any visit to a hospital and they will try to ram a stick up your nose. And this is personal experience.
I told one doctor that testing people who had no symptoms was madness, he then trotted out the Asymptomatic routine.
Obviously he got the benefit of my extensive research.
Forcefully and bluntly.
Duckin idiot.
It was also found also in the UK if you were being checked in the hospital and tested positive and then being transferred to another department you were counted twice for Covid. It’s the only way they can keep the Covid Lie ongoing.
Scamvariant, Scamdemic. Just one big lie from beginning to end.
Plus: Scareiant(s).
Lies, damm lies and statistics!!!!
So very sick children were admitted to hospital, and there caught Covid, which killed them? Right?
From article:
Children younger than 18 make up only 12.4% of U.S. Covid cases, and less than a fraction of a per cent of the total number of deaths from the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show.
An estimated one to three per cent of Covid hospitalisations for Covid are among children – but the new Stanford study suggests the real figure may be even lower…
… I’m inclined to believe that only the lower-range figure – 1 percent – of hospitalizations are among children. But this story says this figure should be cut in half – so it’s probably 0.5 percent (1 1/2 of 1 percent) of hospitalized cases.
From some quick research, I learned that 24.9 percent of the U.S. population is 0-19.
Bottom-line: So an age cohort that represents about 1/4 of the population has produced about 1/2 of 1 percent of hospitalized COVID CASES.
In contrast, the age cohort of 85 and over represents only 1.99 percent of the entire population. However, this age cohort has produced the MOST Covid deaths and hospitalizations of any other age cohort (the plurality age cohort). In the UK, I believe 70 percent of COVID deaths have been among those 75 and over.
Anyway, an age group that makes up about 2 percent of the population accounts for at least 50 percent of all COVID deaths. An age cohort that represents a quarter of the population has accounted for less than 1/2 of 1 percent of deaths.
Over 60 million people aged 14 and under in the US. Total “deaths with covid”, 134.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00066-3/fulltext
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From our government had advisors who are
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