IS COVID-19 weakening in strength? Some doctors think it is.

[+ Charlie]

Good to know that even a Nobel Prize and probably one of the greatest contributions to medical science in human history can be looked down upon thanks to personal appreciations of facts no one is 100% sure about. Unless you were there, so you can make now those affirmations. If so, good for you. If anyone is unsatisfied with the Nobel Prize appointments, they're free to do their claims to the organization, given that, as it seems, we are all owners of our own truth.

I don't think you know (or care) very much about how the Nobel Prize winners are chosen. The prize for medicine is decided by a small committee within a Swedish institute, who take recommendations and then chose three candidates for the prize, to be voted upon by the 50 members of the faculty of medicine (usually all Swedes) within the institute. The prestige that has come to be associated with the award is largely due to the very large prize money that goes with it. The academy refuses to reveal the reasons for their award choice until 50 years after it has been awarded. One of the other two men who won the prize along with Montagnier was later investigated for his ties to AstraZeneca (big pharma), which provided financial support to some of the Nobel activities as well as to two members of the committee. Many international scientists criticized the committee for not giving a joint award to both Montagnier and Gallo, and questioned the fact that Presidents Reagan and Chirac privately negotiated how credit would be divided between the two men when the questions arose about patents for AIDS drugs. To quote you, "You are not factoring that there is an agenda, by big pharma and the media," not to mention by governments and institutions.

Edited June 5, 2020 by Charlie

[Rudynate]

Good to know that even a Nobel Prize and probably one of the greatest contributions to medical science in human history can be looked down upon thanks to personal appreciations of facts no one is 100% sure about. Unless you were there, so you can make now those affirmations. If so, good for you. If anyone is unsatisfied with the Nobel Prize appointments, they're free to do their claims to the organization, given that, as it seems, we are all owners of our own truth.

 

 

That one achievement, important as it was, didn't earn him the right to be held above reproach forevermore.

[marylander1940]

I think that is somewhat unknown at this point. It definitely is the case with some viruses like influenza, that the lower the initial viral load, the less severe of disease. While other viruses like norovirus can sicken people with a very small number of infectious particles. There has kinda been conflicting reports with COVID-19 and the main way to test this through "challenge" studies that give people various doses of the virus under experimental conditions is considered unethical with a virus that is potentially so deadly.

 

Over 50 children infected by new norovirus outbreak in China's southwest

[orville]

Over 50 children infected by new norovirus outbreak in China's southwest

Will THEY ever stop?

 

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