Coronavirus

[mikechamp]

Could all that pain and suffering result in something massively positive? We can only hope:

P.S. In keeping with board policy, I did not paste the entire article here. I encourage those who are curious to visit the article, as there are many links within the article. I included just one, to the study that pertains to this article.

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study that we and our colleagues published in the journal Nature.

While developing mRNA vaccines for patients with brain tumors in 2016, our team, led by pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, discovered that mRNA can train immune systems to kill tumors – even if the mRNA is not related to cancer. Based on this finding, we hypothesized that mRNA vaccines designed to target the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 might also have antitumor effects.

So we looked at clinical outcomes for more than 1,000 late-stage melanoma and lung cancer patients treated with a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint inhibitors. This treatment is a common approach doctors use to train the immune system to kill cancer. It does this by blocking a protein that tumor cells make to turn off immune cells, enabling the immune system to continue killing cancer.

Remarkably, patients who received either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy were more than twice as likely to be alive after three years compared with those who didn’t receive either vaccine. Surprisingly, patients with tumors that don’t typically respond well to immunotherapy also saw very strong benefits, with nearly fivefold improvement in three-year overall survival. This link between improved survival and receiving a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine remained strong even after we controlled for factors like disease severity and co-occurring conditions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cov ... 21424.html

[GeddyWrox]

Very cool! I had read a little about the potential cancer fighting benefits back during COVID. Glad to see it's continuing!

[cardinalkarp]

They couldn’t even make it out of the first line of that article w/o giving misinformation.

Nevermind the fact that there are potential links to the COVID vaccines causing or accelerating cancers.

But don’t worry folks, it TREATS cancer

[heyzeus]

Yeah, that is misinformation. it's probably more like 14.4 million lives that the Covid vaccines saved globally. In the first year, at least.

[cardinalkarp]

Yeah, that is misinformation. it's probably more like 14.4 million lives that the Covid vaccines saved globally. In the first year, at least.

Those numbers were based on models, and in no way are statistically correct. The regurgitation of unfounded statistics that can’t be proven still reign surpeme. Considering COVID has said to have killed 7.1 million people from its onset until now, do you truly believe it saved 14.4 million people in the first year?

The 2.5 million is certainly more plausible, and is what a study I posted previously shows as well (which is likely where they got their information).

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama- ... le/2836434

But data like that is so hard to prove, I mean given how acute COVID effects everyone differently how do we know that the vaccine saved their life, or if that person was just someone who COVID didn’t effect w/ acute symptoms.

In any case, I don’t think the acute symptoms of COVID are the main worry, it’s the long term effects we need to be shifting our focus to.

From the hours upon hours of listening to different doctors speak about COVID/COVID vaccine it’s the spike protein causing untold amounts of damage in the body, and whether it’s happening through multiple infections or multiple vaccine doses, it’s ALL bad.

And coincidentally one of the authors of that study looks to hold patents related to RNA vaccines used in cancer treatment so there’s no obvious conflict of interest there.

[mikechamp]

Guess who's back?

New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states

A new Covid variant is spreading across the U.S. and it may be able to evade protection from current vaccines.

The variant, known as BA.3.2, has been detected in nasal swabs taken from four American travelers and clinical samples from five patients in four unidentified states. It’s also been found in three airplane wastewater samples and 132 wastewater samples taken in more than 20 states, suggesting that its reach is actually far more widespread than what scientists see right now.

Descended from omicron, BA.3.2 was first detected in South Africa in 2024 and in the U.S. in June 2025 in a traveler from the Netherlands. The variant began really surging in September 2025 and has since been reported in 23 countries.

Its evolution was similar to the variant BA.2.86, which emerged in 2024 and later evolved into JN.1: the dominant Covid variant in 2024. But the new strain is “genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the United States since January 2024,” researchers warned in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

That could warrant updating current vaccines, which only target JN.1’s subvariants and provide protection against predominant U.S. variants. BA.3.2 carries approximately 70 to 75 genetic changes in its spike protein - a part of a coronavirus that allows it to enter human cells - that make it easier for a virus to spread more easily and evade immune protection.

Lab studies showed that the new BA.3.2 strain evades the body’s protective antibodies activated by Covid vaccines “likely because of spike protein mutations,” highlighting the need for more data on the effectiveness of the shots.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cov ... 40687.html

[cardinalkarp]

Get the shots!!