It was pneumonia, not Covid, what done it

Written by Professor Martin Neil on . Posted in Current News

The first victim of what became known as Covid-19 was ‘Patient Zero’, whose case was recorded on December 26, 2019, in Wuhan, China. He was admitted to hospital with respiratory symptoms including fever, dizziness and a cough

Patient Zero was relatively young and without significant health problems, yet he was subjected to a battery of tests, including genetic sequencing of fluid from his airways.

We are told this led to the discovery of a new coronavirus subsequently dubbed SARS-CoV-2.

As described in the seminal paper in Nature from February 3, 2020, the clinical features of the illness of the alleged Patient Zero, from whom the genome of the ‘novel virus’ was said to have been sequenced, are quite typical of regular bacterial pneumonia.

Given that he showed no unusual symptoms, clearly this was not a routine medical response to what looks like a typical respiratory infection.

This is not all that is odd about the narrative. Have you ever read much discussion of pneumonia vaccines?

Researchers have found that a purported preventive of one of the major causes of bacterial pneumonia, the pneumococcal vaccine, is sometimes given to the elderly and vulnerable.

Researchers whohave looked at the interaction between bacterial pneumonia and SARS-CoV-2 have found that bacterial pneumonia vaccination reduced the risk of Covid-19 by a statistically significant margin.

But how can a vaccine for a bacterium reduce the risk from a virus?

Research into the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia concludes that it is often observed that viral species colonise the nasopharynx of patients after they have contracted bacterial pneumonia, suggesting that sequential pneumonia infection followed by viral infection, or parallel infection, where the infections occur together, are both possible.

However, the default operating assumption in the medical literature and in practice is the opposite: viral followed by bacterial infection, and since 2020 with SARS-CoV-2 identified as the ‘novel’ root cause.

These research results suggest that the actual burden of risk to patients is not SARS-CoV-2 at all but bacterial pneumonia and that SARS-Cov-2 is secondary to bacterial pneumonia, or it masks bacterial pneumonia, not the other way around.

Given this,might itbe the case that bacterial pneumonia is acquired in the community rather than in hospital, and that the signal of viral infection follows bacterial pneumonia infection? And if sowhy was the focus on a virus and not on the perennial risk of bacterial pneumonia?

Many of the frightening images circulated in the media in spring 2020 were from ICUs showing patients being treated on ventilators. It was claimed that people were dying of acute respiratory distress caused by SARS-CoV-2 while being ventilated.

Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is a well-known condition in which ventilated patients have a significantly higher chance of dying after contracting ‘secondary’ pneumonia during ventilation.

Many patients dying of VAP in spring 2020 were recorded as having died from SARS-CoV-2.

High rates of ventilator-induced pneumonia are acknowledged by the authorities but their use continues to be defended as necessary. Even Anthony Fauci admitted that ventilation was overused.

This overuse of ventilation was accompanied by changes in protocols, delays in admission and changes to medication and testing. Given that most people suffering death by ‘Covid-19 with respiratory symptoms’ died in ICUs, blaming these deaths on SARS-CoV-2 seems unscrupulous.

The observational data is heavily confounded, and these deaths are just as likely to have involved, inter alia, bacterial infection and changes in treatment protocols as by detected or undetected pathogens. 

In a 2008 article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases (on the Spanish Flu pandemic), Anthony Fauci concluded: ‘Prevention, diagnosis, prophylaxis, and treatment of secondary bacterial pneumonia, as well as stockpiling of antibiotics and bacterial vaccines, should also be high priorities for pandemic planning.’

Regardless of whether such stockpiles of antibiotics were created, community antibiotic prescriptions were reduced dramatically in spring 2020. Recall that in spring 2020 people were told to self-isolate if they suffered Covid symptoms.

This would therefore buy time for pathogens to multiply and for a more severe condition to develop, which might subsequently be harder to manage. Many people would have presented late to ICU, with incipient or lingering pneumonia (perhaps from the previous normal flu season), disguised as Covid-19, and may have been left untreated with antibiotics until their condition deteriorated further.

A reluctance to perform bacteriological investigations in ICUs (and expose staff to a supposedly deadly pathogen) may have been a further contributory factor. Patients would therefore have suffered higher levels of respiratory distress than would have been seen historically.

The lateness of presentation to ICU, and the very late administration of antibiotics, may have failed to save them from a (detected or undetected) bacterial pneumonia infection.

Conflating pneumonia and Covid-19 repeats an official longstanding tactic of conflating the attribution of influenza and pneumonia. There is evidence to suggest that a reduction in the public’s perceived threat of flu may have prompted the pharmaceutical industry to attempt a rebranding of the threat along with a new suite of marketable products to respond to that threat.

In contrast to the evidence presented above, physicians in Toledo, Spain, administered antibiotics to Covid-19 patients during spring 2020, contrary to official guidance. This resulted in zero hospitalisations or deaths in their care homes after they started routine administration.

The resulting mortality over spring 2020 was approximately 7 percent versus 28 percent in other comparable care homes (and the 7 pe cent died before they started routine antibiotic use).

A (pneumonia) hypothesis, that a proportion of Covid-19 deaths in 2020, specifically those with associated respiratory symptoms, were caused by bacterial pneumonia, and that bacterial pneumonia may have been the primary, not the secondary, infection, starts to look rather strong.

It matters because it challenges received wisdom about the true causative agent of the deaths resulting from the ‘pandemic’ – a bacterium or a virus, both or neither? It also brings into question how the agent was spread and, most significantly, it challenges how and if the illness was appropriately treated.

Further confirmation that bacterial pneumonia, not Covid, is the real danger has come from two groups of doctors who have had 100 percent success using antibiotics to treat ‘Covid’.

In allegorical terms it is akin to a scene from an Agatha Christie novel: SARS-CoV-2, a bystander used as a decoy, is found guilty of the crime with ventilation as his accomplice, but the actual criminal, who has got off scot-free, is in fact bacterial pneumonia (undetected until the denouement).

In other words, SARS-CoV-2 has been framed.

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    Richard Greene

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    This website is the most inconsistent website I visit, alternating between good articles and claptrap like this one

    Any article that starts by ignoring 99% of Covid infections that did NOT result in death, implies that pain and suffering for the 99% does not matter.

    And then the obvious is ignored: Covid infections led to failure of the lungs in a small minority of infected patients.
    That major organ failure caused death. It is NOT important to know the exact progression of events to know the start was a Covid infection and the end was death.

    3.5 years later we get speculation that antibiotics in Spring 2020 would have prevent deaths. Armchair medicine. We already knew ivermectin could have left a lot of Covid patients out of hospitals, with over 50 studies, but the author apparently forgot to mention ivermectin.

    Covid patients i ICUs with ventilator did no worse than Covid patients in ICUs with ventilator. It is a conservative myth that b ventilators were killing machines.

    I have no confidence these authors have proved antibiotics would have prevented many Covid deaths. Their suggestion that there was no viral pandemic is the speculation of three fools, IMHO.

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    Richard Greene

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    Typing corrections”

    Covid patients in ICUs with ventilators did no worse than Covid patients in ICUs with NO ventilator. It is a conservative myth that ventilators were killing machines.

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      VOWG

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      That is another lie.

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    Wisenox

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    So, covid, which is asymptomatic, was somehow confused with pneumonia? Were retarded physicians were used to examine the patient?
    The answer is yes. Covid doesn’t exist and never has. In fact, no strain of coronavirus exists. There is not one strain of coronavirus, in history, that has been sequenced as an intact genome or otherwise proven to exist. Any physician who confuses a non-existent asymptomatic virus with pneumonia must be retarded.

    You can print a million articles about covid, but it will never change the truth that covid does not exist.

    “Tell a lie big enough” only works on sheep.

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      Richard Greene

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      Ony dumb people claim Covid does not exist, and those who claim there was no pandemic are beyond dumb

      Many young patients with Covid infections had no symptoms, but most patients did have symptoms, sometimes leading to death, with an infection faatlity rate 10x influenza (that does not apply to Omicron, which has an IFR similar to common colds — about 1/100 of the Covid 19 IFR).

      The medical profession did a horrible job treating Covid patients, especially after finding out how well ivermectin worked. The drug industry was financed by Trump to rush a shot into production that was the least safe and least effective “vaccine” ever inflicted on the general public.
      Governments turned fascist to force lockdowns mainly of small businesses, wearing masks that do nothing and forcing experimental shots on people to hold a job or travel. As if fascism was the cure for Covid.

      There was a Covid pandemic, and it was abused to ramp up government powers. That is what we conservatives should be angry about. Instead, some conservatives play the fools by claiming there was no Covid virus and no Covid pandemic — they must think the huge increase of all cause mortality and excess deaths in 2020 wr just an illusion? The 350,000 US Covid deaths in 2020 were just a bad flu year, some fools claim, not knowing flu deaths average 36,000 a year in the US.

      I know leftists will quote scientific “studies” to back up their narratives, and EVERYTHING the government says must be right, they believe. But some conservatives believe EVERYTHING the government says is a lie, and then fall for so many conspiracy theories it’s not funny.

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        Herb Rose

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        Hi Richard,
        Where do you get that there were excess deaths in 2020? To declare a pandemic they has to change the definition of “pandemic” and then claim that anyone who died and tested positive for covid (using an inappropriate test with excess multiplications) had died from covid (they even paid a bounty if covid was listed on the death certificate.). In 2020 the death rate did not increase because those who were dying were old with multiple other health problems. In Michigan you had a governor who sent nursing home patients, who tested positive, back to the nursing home, where the most vulnerable people were, in order to increase the number of deaths. Nursing homes are for providing care for the chronically ill. (They never do acute care for illness but send those people to the hospitals.)
        It isn’t until 2021, after the shots became common, that the death rate increased because the young were now dying.(The life insurance companies complained that there was a 40% increase in claims for their policy holders (aged 18 to 60)).
        There are multiple articles in PSI showing the change in mortality from all causes in those years that avoid the propaganda done by falsifying data.
        Don’t you find it odd that there is no trace of a pandemic in the countries did not impose the restrictions and shots done in the U.S. and Europe? In Sweden there was a spike in deaths which occurs regularly as viruses re-occur, while in India they avoid the damage by simply using Ivermectin as a preventative. (They ended up charging their representative at WHO with murder.) Africa barely noticed covid.
        It’s hard not to think there was a conspiracy when all the patents on treatment, the virus, and the testing were issued in 2015 before the disease existed.
        Herb

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    Herb Rose

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    Hi Richard,
    Are you saying that respirators were of no benefit to patients and were only used because hospitals received a bonus for hooking up patients to them. Does that mean that the disease was not a respiratory condition but one of the blood? Do you think that the use of Remdesivir was of no benefit to patients and just used to increase bills even though it is known to be toxic? Sounds like a conspiracy between the pharmaceutical companies, healthcare industry, and government agencies to exploit the people they were suppose to be helping.
    Herb

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    Richard Greene

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    Very expensive remdesivir and ventilators were not effective, and may have been counterproductive. Not that anyone in Spring 2020 knew exactly what to do.

    A friend who is a retired doctor caught Covid in early 2020. Her doctor son strongly advised against going to his hospital — he said too many Covid patients were dying and ventilators were not helping. Took care of her at home for three longs weeks of suffering and she finally recovered. He caught Covid too, but the symptoms were much milder for a younger man. than for his 60-something Mother.

    It does not require a conspiracy for a consensus of people to be wrong. It does take a conspiracy for that consensus to hide the fact that they were wrong by censorship of contrary data.

    (Corrected your e-mail address) SUNMOD

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      Saeed Qureshi

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      Interesting, more like bizarre comments from Richard Greene. No relevance to science or reality.

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        Richard Greene

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        People who claim there was no Covid, there was no pandemic and the shot was designed to depopulate the planet are stuck on s t u p i d.

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          denis dombas

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          Richard, you are making claims without iota of evidence”.Most people died from ventilator, Remedesivir, and bio weapons that they called vaccines.This was WEF agenda to depopulate planet using “vaccines” forced on population in order for them to keep jobs or being able to travel, case of pure plandemic!

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          Saeed Qureshi

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          Richard Greene:

          Please present your case with some supporting arguments; for example, who has evidence of the presence or existence of the virus in any human being, with or without COVID-19?

          Consider suggesting some reports or publications from people with experience in substance isolation, purification, and characterization. Avoid reports from medical and biological experts because they have not studied such subjects and, unfortunately, got fooled like the general public.

          I am looking forward to some reports or references. Thanks.

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