A student organizer behind Saturday's protest against Western University's COVID-19 vaccine mandate says the demonstration is "only the beginning" in the push to overturn the controversial policy.
Hundreds of people gathered on campus to hear speakers denounce the London, Ont., university's decision to mandate at least three vaccine doses for staff, students and some visitors.
Organizer Kendra Hancock says she hopes the demonstration will lead to public negotiations and further student consultation over the university's rules, which also include mandatory masking in classrooms.
Speakers included a former professor at Western-affiliated Huron University College, who says she refused to comply with the school's previous vaccine mandate, as well as the Haldimand-Norfolk health unit's acting chief medical officer of health who has been an outspoken critic of COVID-19 mandates.
Students carrying a banner reading "Enough is Enough" led a march around the university grounds as campus security looked on.
Just as the march neared its end, some demonstrators split from the organizers and briefly took over one lane of traffic for a block along Western Road before dispersing.
Daly Walker
It started out like a normal summer day for 8-year-old Daly Walker.
It was 1949, and the future Columbus Regional Hospital surgeon was playing Little League baseball in the town of Winchester, Indiana, unaware that his life was about to change.
While on the baseball field, he suddenly started feeling sick. I actually collapsed, Walker, now 81, recalled 73 years later in an interview with The Republic. I had a fever, and I was very weak. It was a very rapid onset. The coach carried me off the field. I was dizzy, and I was vomiting.
What nobody knew at the time was that one of the most feared viruses in the world had invaded his body and was attacking his brain stem.
Walker said he was rushed to a local doctor who performed a spinal tap, a test in which a needle is inserted between two lumbar bones to remove a sample of fluid that can be used to diagnose medical conditions.
It didnt take long for the doctor to figure out what was wrong: Walker had contracted polio, a disabling and life-threatening disease with no cure that struck fear in hearts of parents for decades during the first half of the 20th century.
While most infected people would have no visible symptoms, some children would develop an infection of the covering of the spinal cord or brain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Others would develop paralysis in the arms or legs. Many polio survivors including former President Franklin D. Roosevelt were disabled for life.
Walker was taken to a hospital in nearby Muncie. He was soon joined by his older sister, who had also contracted polio, though she was not as sick as him and recovered. We were in the same hospital room for a while, he said.
Big epidemic in Indiana
Walker, however, was just one of many children in Indiana who were stricken with the disease.
By the time he contracted the virus in late 1940s, polio outbreaks in the U.S. were increasing in frequency and size, disabling an average of more than 35,000 people, including more than 15,000 cases of paralysis, each year, according to the CDC.
Outbreaks periodically swept through cities and towns of all sizes. Walker said his father, who was a funeral director in the town of Winchester, buried 11 polio victims, including a young couple who left behind two children.
There was a big epidemic in Indiana, Walker said. Riley Hospital was filled with children on iron lungs and paralyzed, as were other hospitals in the state.
And Bartholomew County was no exception.
News coverage in The Republic at the time depicted periodic local outbreaks of polio and a state of fear hanging over the community.
Parents were scared to let their children go outside, particularly in the summer, when incidence of the disease was believed to peak. Public health officials would impose quarantines on homes and towns.
In 1946, health officials in Columbus closed all city playgrounds and pools, canceled Little League baseball games at Donner Park and barred anyone under the age of 18 from going to theaters after three cases of polio were confirmed in Bartholomew County.
At least four Bartholomew County residents including three small children died from polio in a two-month period in the fall of 1952.
By 1957, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said there were 52 polio victims living in Bartholomew County, according to Columbus Regional Health.
It affected children more
Motivated by his battle with polio, Walker became a physician, graduating from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1966. Just a few years later, he moved to Columbus to take a job as a surgeon at CRH, where he worked for decades.
And now, decades after being hospitalized with polio, Walker received the news of the first case of the disease in the U.S. in nearly a decade with a heavy heart. Last month, an unvaccinated young adult in New York contracted the virus and developed paralysis, The Associated Press reported.
Just a few weeks later, New York state and federal officials confirmed that the virus that causes polio had been detected in New York Citys wastewater in another sign that the disease is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, according to wire reports.
Recently, an unvaccinated young adult north of New York City contracted polio. On Friday, health officials in the nations largest city said they had found the virus in wastewater samples, suggesting it was spreading among the unvaccinated.
And an estimated 886 children ages 19 to 35 months in Bartholomew, Jackson and Jennings counties were behind on their polio shots as of this past March, state records show.
Its very sad to think this is coming back, Walker said. It can attack anybody, but they called it originally infantile paralysis because it affected children more than adults. Its a problem for the pediatric population. Id hate to see it resurrect itself again.
Spared the worst
Walker said he was spared the worst consequences of polio. Because the virus attacks the brain stem which controls breathing and swallowing many children had to be put on ventilators called iron lungs to help them breath.
Fortunately, my respiratory center was spared, so I did not go on an iron lung, although there were a couple nights when I had trouble breathing, Walker said. My main problem was that my swallowing mechanism was paralyzed. So, I was unable to eat on my own. I was fed for many, many months by my mother (through a tube into his stomach.)
In an interview 20 years ago with The Republic, Walker said his family set up a hospital bed for him in their dining room, and their house was put under quarantine. They posted the notice on our front door, Walker said in 2002. People would cross the street so that they didnt have to walk close to our house.
Eventually, Walker was able to regain the ability to swallow, though somewhat impaired, and was able to live a normal life. But he still remembers the young couple who died of polio that his father buried some 70 years ago and the two children who were orphaned.
Introduction of vaccines
But everything changed in 1955, when the first polio vaccine was introduced.
When the polio virus vaccine was approved and was starting to be used, the whole community rejoiced, Walker said, recalling how Winchester residents reacted to the news. They were just ecstatic about that. They rang the church bells and cars drove around honking horns. When the announcement was made, my mother wept because she was so happy the other children and other families who wouldnt have to experience what we had.
By April 1955, almost 85% of parents of first and second graders in Bartholomew County had given permission for their children to get the vaccines, according to news coverage at the time. Later that month, more than 1,600 of those students had gotten their first dose.
The publics reaction to the polio vaccine was different than it was for the COVID-19 vaccine, which many people in Bartholomew County still havent gotten. But that was a different era, Walker said.
We had just come out of World War II and people, really as a nation, were united and working together to better our country, Walker said. So, things like polio they attacked with a vengeance like they did World War II.
Following the introduction of vaccines, the number of polio cases in the U.S. fell rapidly to less than 1,000 cases in 1962, less than 100 in the 1960s and fewer than 10 in the 1970s.
In 1979, the U.S. officially declared that polio had been eliminated in what has been viewed as one of the nations greatest public health victories, according to the CDC. Yet cases have cropped up occasionally since then, often among people who had traveled to other countries.
Walker, who became a writer after retiring and now spends his time between Florida and Vermont, developed post-polio syndrome a few years ago and his symptoms got worse. He underwent a procedure and was able to feel better, though I just have to be a little careful.
Walker is urging people to take the virus seriously and to get vaccinated.
Im just disheartened to learn that its cropping up again and people arent getting vaccinated, Walker said.
Its such a devastating illness, and the people that survived it with paralyzed legs and arms had a hard life after that, he added later in the interview. Although I was very ill, I was lucky that I didnt have any paralysis on my extremities.
Britain faces a low uptake of the Covid booster jab this autumn amid vaccine fatigue and complacency about the virus, the new Pfizer boss has warned.
The booster campaign starts next week, with care home residents and the housebound the first to be invited. Over-75s and the clinically vulnerable will be able to book appointments from September 12, with a wider rollout for over-50s taking place in phases. Roughly 26 million in England will be eligible.
Susan Rienow, who was appointed UK managing director at Pfizer in February, said: We have to remain vigilant. I recognise there may be some vaccine fatigue in the population. But making sure that people are boosting their immunity, so that we can prevent people from being hospitalised, is going
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Comics character
The Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich; English: Ah-lek-say sit-seh-vich; Russian: ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr., and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #41 (Oct. 1966).[1] The character is a Russian thug who underwent an experimental procedure that gave him an artificial skin covering and superhuman strength. Rebelling against the scientists responsible for his transformation, Rhino used his newfound powers to become a successful criminal, and soon clashed with superheroes like Spider-Man and the Hulk. The character is typically portrayed as a dimwitted brute, capable of great destruction, but ultimately easily deceived.
One of Spider-Man's most prominent adversaries, the Rhino has been adapted into various forms of media since his original debut during the Silver Age of Comic Books, including animated television series and video games. He has also featured in Marvel merchandise such as action figures and trading cards.
Paul Giamatti played a version of Aleksei Sytsevich who uses a rhinoceros-themed battle armor, similar to the character's Ultimate Marvel incarnation, in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Described by writer Mike Conroy as "famously one of Spider-Man's dimmest villains",[2] the Rhino debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #4143 (Oct.Dec. 1966) as a thug for hire working for an Eastern Bloc country.[3] He volunteers to participate in an experiment that bonds a super-strong polymer to his skin, as well as augmenting his strength and speed. The character returned in The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #104 (June 1968), and although he apparently died at the end of the story, he was revived in The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #124 (Feb. 1970), becoming a perennial opponent of both Spider-Man and the Hulk.
The character achieved significant exposure in the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in both a solo capacity and as a villain for hire in over 12 titles. Significant appearances included starring in the limited series Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #14 (MayAug. 1991); the "Flowers for Rhino" storyline in Spider-Man's Tangled Web #56 (Oct.Nov. 2001), which is told from the character's perspective; and Punisher War Journal (vol. 2) #1315 (Jan.March 2008), in which Rhino begins to rethink his lifestyle. He has also been a member of multiple supervillain teams, including the Emissaries of Evil, the Sinister Syndicate, and the Sinister Six.
Aleksei Sytsevich was a member of the Russian mafia who willingly underwent a series of chemical and radiation treatments meant to give him an artificial skin covering that would grant superhuman strength. After successfully completing the treatment, Sytsevich rebelled against the Eastern Bloc agents who gave him these powers, destroying their laboratory. He was subsequently hired to kidnap Colonel John Jameson and obtain the extraterrestrial spores to which Jameson was exposed during a space mission, but Sytsevich was defeated by the superhero Spider-Man and taken to prison.[4]
After serving his sentence, the Rhino was approached by the same scientists for more augmentation. This time, they used the same gamma radiation that granted the Hulk his abilities to further increase the Rhino's strength. They also equipped him with a more durable, acid-proof suit that would further increase his abilities. The Rhino agreed to find and kidnap Bruce Banner, the Hulk's human alter ego, for his knowledge of gamma radiation. Despite the Rhino's training and equipment, he was easily defeated by the Hulk, who placed him in a coma.[5]
Months later, the Rhino was revived by the Leader, who planned to interrupt Banner's wedding to Betty Ross. The Leader intended to transform Banner into the Hulk, and wanted the Rhino to protect him from the ensuing rampage. At the wedding, the Rhino betrays the Leader and attacks Banner the moment he transforms.[6] In the resulting chaos, the Rhino is once again comatose, and the Leader briefly takes mental control of Sytsevich's body to combat the Hulk.[7] The Leader abandons the Rhino and the Hulk on an alien world, and return home in a rocket, which crashes on arrival.
The Rhino's first collaboration with other villains occurs when he and the Abomination activated a gamma bomb at the Hulkbuster base in an attempt to destroy the Hulk. Although this attempt failed, Egghead recruited the Rhino for his supervillain team, the Emissaries of Evil, where he was paired with Solarr in search of a rare jewel.[8] Rhino and Solarr are defeated by the Defenders, Doctor Strange,[9] and Doc Samson.[10]
Samson took the Rhino to Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., where he was part of a failed prison break involving Moonstone, Blackout, and Electro.[11] While being transferred to another facility, the Miracle Man attempted to free the Rhino, who wanted to stay in P.E.G.A.S.U.S. for medical treatment. The rocket crash had permanently affixed the Rhino's costume to his body, and he wanted it separated. He and the Thing successfully stopped Miracle Man, and took the Rhino to a medical facility within P.E.G.A.S.U.S.[12]
When the treatments fail to return the Rhino to normal, he escapes P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and joins the Sinister Syndicate, fighting Spider-Man on multiple occasions.[13] After the team falls apart, the Rhino is hired by the Kingpin under the belief that he can raise the money for more surgery. When he hears the Kingpin tell a group of scientists not to remove the Rhino suit, Sytsevich kidnaps one of their children until they complete the procedure. Sytsevich then requests a removable suit from Justin Hammer, allowing him to continue his life of crime.[14]
When the Rhino accidentally kills a security guard during a bank robbery, he is humiliated by the Punisher, and captured by Alyosha Kravinoff, the son of Kraven the Hunter. The Punisher rescues the Rhino from Kravinoff's superhuman zoo, and he is convinced to make amends. The Rhino sends a letter and money to the security guard's widow,[15] and aids the Punisher on a case.[16] Later, the Rhino persuades the Punisher not to kill Michael Watts, the third Stilt-Man.[17]
During The Gauntlet storyline, the Rhino gives up his life of crime, surrendering himself to the police. S.H.I.E.L.D. removes his Rhino suit and sentences him to 25 years on Ryker's Island. He is released early on good behavior, and upon release, he meets Doctor Tramma, who wants to reinvent the Rhino. Sytsevich declines, and Tramma creates a new Rhino. At Spider-Man's persuasion, Sytsevich refuses to fight the new Rhino.[18] That promise is broken when Sytsevich's wife Oksana is killed, and a grief-stricken Sytsevich kills the new Rhino.[19]
Doctor Octopus recruits the Rhino for his iteration of the Sinister Six.[20] During the Ends of the Earth storyline, the Rhino tells Spider-Man that the loss of his wife has changed him, and he is prepared to die. When Doctor Octopus self-destructs his own lair, the Rhino pins Silver Sable to the floor of a flooding corridor, knowing that Spider-Man will blame himself for his fellow hero's death.[21] He is presumed drowned, and while in Doctor Octopus' dying body, Spider-Man meets Oksana and the Rhino in the afterlife.[22]
As part of the lead-up to the Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy storyline, the Rhino resurfaces, having survived his apparent demise. The Jackal finds Sytsevich in hiding in Tahuexco, Guatemala, where he persuades the Rhino to do his bidding with the promise of a revived Oksana.[23] When Doctor Octopus activates a virus in all of the Jackal's clones that causes them to rapidly decay, Oksana turns to dust, and the Rhino goes on a grief-stricken rampage.[24] Spider-Man calms him by convincing him to move forward for his wife's sake, and the two agree to see each other once in a while to help the other with their pain.[25]
In a prelude to the "Hunted" storyline, the Rhino is among the animal-themed characters captured by the Taskmaster and the Black Ant on behalf of Kraven the Hunter. He is among those who Arcade publicly reveals as the Savage Six.[26]
During the "King in Black" storyline, Rhino is among the villains recruited by Mayor Wilson Fisk to be part of his Thunderbolts at the time of Knull's invasion. Following the deaths of Ampere and Snakehead, Taskmaster couldn't bring himself to prevent Rhino from walking away.[27]
During the "Sinister War" storyline, Rhino accompanied the Savage Six into attacking the premiere of the movie which Mysterio was involved in. This led up to the Savage Six also fighting the Sinister Six.[28]
During the "Devil's Reign" storyline, Rhino appears as a member of Mayor Wilson Fisk's latest incarnation of the Thunderbolts when Mayor Fisk passes a law that forbids superhero activities. He assisted Agony, Electro II, and U.S. Agent in taking down Moon Knight.[29] In truth, Rhino did not signing up to dispose underage superheroes after learning the Kamala's Law incidents in Outlawed and its conclusion in Killer App, so he secretly helps the Champions by giving them the Thunderbolts badge due to Fisk's patrol system becoming even tighter with Doctor Octopus' Octobots and many innocent people being unsaved.[30] It was because of Rhino declaring himself out of the Thunderbolts because of this reason that caused Mayor Fisk to bring in Abomination as a replacement.[31][32]
A series of mutagenic chemical and radiation treatments provide the Rhino with unnatural strength, speed, stamina, and durability, all which were further augmented by even more gamma rays. His incredible speed allows him to run at high velocities, especially over short distances. Sytsevich frequently "charges" his opponents in this manner, enabling him to cause great harm to most enemies in the surrounding area. He is, however, notorious for his lack of agility and slow reaction time, which makes it difficult for him to change direction when running at high speeds. As such, his fighting style is focused more on melee attacks.
Sytsevich possesses a thick polymer suit that resembles the physique of a rhinoceros, including two horns, and covers everything but his face. The suit is resistant to damage and extreme temperatures and these horns are capable of penetrating two-inch plate steel. His first, cruder suit was originally bonded to his skin in the aftermath of a rocket crash and he went through several attempts to have the suit removed.
After the first suit's destruction, Justin Hammer created a second, removable iteration. The second suit allows Sytsevich to withstand high caliber bullets, thermal attacks, and most impact forces. It also further increases his strength and durability.
When Aleksei Sytsevich declines Doctor Tramma's offer to return to the Rhino role, Tramma finds another subject and equips him with a high-tech suit that was supposed to be given to Sytsevich. The second Rhino comes after Sytsevich, feeling that he had to destroy the original Rhino if he was going to ascend. Spider-Man defeats the second Rhino, who then escapes.[18]
While lifting a makeshift dumbbell made out of a pole and two trucks, the second Rhino is called up by a mysterious person telling him where he can find Sytsevich. Rhino attacks Aleksei at one of J. Jonah Jameson's press meetings. Aleksei lies to the second Rhino, agreeing to fight him in his Rhino suit, but instead goes into hiding with his wife Oksana. Before they arrive at their safehouse, however, the second Rhino attacks again, and Oksana dies as a result. Aleksei dons his old Rhino suit, which is strong enough to destroy the new Rhino's, and kills the unnamed wearer.[19]
The Ultimate Marvel version of the Rhino is Alex O'Hirn, a scientist who uses a suit of armor known as R.H.I.N.O. (Robotism Heuristic Intelligence Navigable Operative), stolen from the United States military. Using the armor's strength, O'Hirn robs a Manhattan bank by charging the vault-head first. He then rampages through a busy city street. The original Spider-Man tries to escape school in order to confront O'Hirn, but cannot get there in time, and the R.H.I.N.O. is defeated by Iron Man.[33] In the "Divided We Fall" arc, Miles Morales uses his venom blasts to create a shortcut into the R.H.I.N.O. armor.[34]
In the alternate reality depicted in the 1995 Age of Apocalypse storyline, the Rhino was one of those superhumans captured by the horseman Death. He was brought to the Ship, Apocalypse's recovery base, and was transformed into a powerful monster by the Terrigen Mist. While on the Ship, the Rhino joined Death and his other henchmen in fighting Magneto and the X-Men, where he was incapacitated by Rogue.[35]
The Rhino was seen as a member of the Avengers of Earth-9939, who travelled through time to stop the entity known as Charnel. After being partnered with She-Hulk for 20 years, both were killed in action.[36]
In the third issue of the 2003 JLA/Avengers crossover miniseries, the Rhino was among the villains enthralled by Krona to defend his stronghold. He is briefly seen defeating Triathlon in battle.[37]
In the alternate reality seen in the 2005 House of M storyline, the Rhino serves as the bodyguard of Peter Parker. Parker sends the Rhino to question Crusher Hogan, a wrestler performing under the name "the Green Goblin," and Sytsevich hospitalizes Hogan. Now in hiding from the authorities, the Rhino is approached by the Green Goblin, who is looking for allies in defeating Parker. The Rhino performs a double-cross and enlists his friends Electro, the Ox and the Vulture to attack the Green Goblin, unmasking him to reveal Peter Parker.[38]
The Rhino, a member of the undead Sinister Six, was among the zombified villains that attempted to devour Galactus. When the other zombies finished eating Galactus, zombified versions of the Hulk and Spider-Man dismembered and ate the Rhino, both stating that he tasted poor.[39]
In Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man, within the Marvel Comics 2 universe, the Rhino briefly loses his temper while visiting the hospital with his sick aunt. After calming down, the Rhino waits in line and comes face to face with Peter Parker, who is with his own family. They discuss their superhero pasts and call a truce, with Sytsevich assuring Peter that what he did was simply business. They spend the remainder of Peter's visit exchanging stories, and part with a better understanding of one another.[40]
In the Spider-Verse storyline, the Earth-001 version of the Rhino appears as a member of Verna's Hounds. He accompanies Verna and the Earth-001 version of the Scorpion to Earth-21205 to hunt that world's Peter Parker, masquerading as the Hobgoblin, where they were stopped by the Spider-Woman of Earth-65.[41] He later helps Verna and the Earth-001 versions of Hammerhead and the Ox attack the Spider-Totems on Earth-8847.[42] The Earth-001 Rhino is killed by the Superior Spider-Man, the Assassin Spider-Man, and Spider Punk.[volume&issueneeded]
A member of the Kishi Kuri clan,[43] the Rhino was present when Venom usurped the Kingpin,[volume&issueneeded] and was later seen battling the Shadow Clan.[volume&issueneeded]
On Earth-65, Aleksei Sytsevich is a mercenary hired by the Kingpin and Matt Murdock to kill Captain George Stacy. Although he does not appear as the Rhino, Aleksei is depicted as a large man with gray skin and blue hair. After being stopped by the Spider-Woman, Officer Frank Castle interrogates Sytsevich about who ordered the hit on Stacy. Castle beats the information out of Sytsevich that the Kingpin was the one responsible.[44]
In the Old Man Logan universe, where villains rose to power, the Rhino left Manhattan to form the Rhino Gang. The Gang successfully conquered Arizona and New Mexico, killing anyone that stood in their way. When they reached a Cheyenne reservation in South Dakota, the Gang met resistance in the form of Forge and his high-tech defenses. Forge annihilated the Rhino Gang before beating the Rhino to death.[45]
During the "Secret Wars" storyline in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, the Rhino works as an enforcer of the Regent. He is first seen alongside Boomerang and the Shocker, assaulting Demolition Man for protesting against the Regent's rules.[46] Following the deaths of Doctor Octopus and the Hobgoblin, and the incapacitation of the Vulture, the Regent recruits the Rhino, Boomerang, and the Beetle for the Sinister Six. As part of the Sinister Six, the Rhino attacks S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret base after the Regent probes the Sandman's mind.[47]
The Rhino frequently appears as a boss, and occasionally as a playable character, in video games based on Spider-Man and Marvel Comics properties.
The Aleksei Sytsevich incarnation of the Rhino appears in Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man series, voiced once again by Fred Tatasciore.[48] This version is a former enforcer for the Russian Mafia whose powers come from an experimental rhinoceros-themed combat suit that increases his strength, but cannot be removed. Within the games' continuity, Spider-Man has been a superhero for eight years and is well-familiar with the Rhino, having fought him several times in the past.
The Rhino appears in Jim Butcher's novel Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, in which he and Spider-Man are forced to ally against Morlun's family. Along the way, the two foes gain a deeper respect for one another.
The Rhino appears in the Marvel Universe Live! stage show.[64] This version is a member of the Sinister Six.
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"Rhino flu" is a slang term for the common cold, which often leaves you miserable 1. Unlike the real flu virus, the rhino flu usually allows people to continue performing their daily tasks at work and at home. Despite how common rhino flu is, many dont know the facts about it 1.
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The term "rhino" derives from "rhinovirus." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rhinovirus is the most common of the more than 200 cold viruses in existence 12.
Rhino flu affects the upper respiratory tract: nose and throat.
There is no cure for the common cold 1. Typical treatments include the use of pain relievers and fever reducers, cough syrups, expectorants and decongestants.
The Mayo Clinic advises the following preventive measures: wash your hands frequently, use tissues for sneezes and coughs, keep things around the house like countertops clean, dont share utensils or drink from someone else's cup and avoid prolonged contact with people who have a cold.
If you have a cold, you should limit your contact with others to prevent further spread of the virus. According to the CDC, since the rhino flu comes from a virus and not bacteria, antibiotics wont have an effect on it.
The paediatricians across large hospitals in Maharashtras Pune city are under tremendous strain with a mix of respiratory viral infections having hit children hard.
There are growing concerns about not being able to find a hospital bed as several are inundated with the patients and there is a real fear that the more deserving lot of ill children may not get hospitalized treatment.
Noting a rise in re-infections, the doctors have urged the parents and schools to ensure that a sick child remains at home for at least ten days.
There have been at least 100 paediatric group patients at our hospital since mid-July and it is difficult to find a hospital bed. We are worried that the critically ill child may not get a hospital bed and hence to break this cycle we are appealing to parents and schools to let children remain at home at least for seven to ten days if they are sick, Dr Sachin Shah, Director of Paediatrics, Surya Mother and Child Hospital, Wakad, told The Indian Express.
Dr Umesh Vaidya, Senior Paediatrician and Regional Medical Director, Cloud Nine Hospital (West), has practically counted over 2,000 patients in the OPD since August 1.
Febrile illness and respiratory disorders are high and it is very important to arrive at an accurate diagnosis at an early stage. We cannot do laboratory tests for every viral infection and similarly we cannot afford to miss small details. Hence, a clinical sense of judgement is also very important. For instance the family history also has to be taken if multiple family members are infected, Dr Vaidya pointed out.
Dr Rajan Joshi, Head of Department of Paediatrics, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, said there has been tremendous strain since the last two months with the patients on the waiting list for admission.
Several doctors admitted there have been several challenges and the hospitals have been trying to help each other by accommodating some patients, who need admission.
Dr Sanjay Lalwani, Medical Director of Bharati Hospital, said that the student population was at home because of the Covid-19 pandemic, adding the reopening of schools has now also coincided with the rainy season where humidity levels are high and there are extremes of temperature.
Dr Lalwani further said the viruses thrive in such a situation.
Daily we have been sending swabs of 10-15 children admitted to the hospital to the Indian Council of Medical Research- National Institute of Virology and at least one-third are positive for A (H1N1) virus (swine flu). Covid is not being seen. We are also finding children with the contagious Hand-Foot-Mouth-Disease, rhino virus and dengue, Dr Lalwani said.
We are also observing that once the child recovers in four to five days, he /she is back again in the OPD after ten days. Hence, there has been a mix of viral fevers, he added.
Dr Aarti Kinikar, the chairperson of Pune Paediatric Covid Task Force at Sassoon General Hospital, said that compared to Covid there were different types of respiratory viruses that were prevailing including A (H1N1) virus.
While some are self-limiting, since Sassoon General Hospital is a large tertiary care one, critically ill patients are also referred here, Dr Kinikar said.
Dr Pramod Jog, former national president of Indian Academy of Paediatrics, said it was likely that children had not developed immunity against influenza as they were homebound during the Covid pandemic.
Differential diagnosis is important as we are also seeing back to back infections with the same child reporting to the OPD after recovering, Dr Jog added.
25 deaths due to A (H1N1) virus (swine flu); 11 are Pune residents
Twenty-five deaths have been reported due to A (H1N1) virus (swine flu) across hospitals in Pune, and according to Dr Sanjeev Wavare, Assistant health chief, Pune Municipal Corporation, 11 persons were residents of Pune. The remaining 14 deaths were of people who were from outside the city but had sought treatment here. Cases of swine flu are high among senior citizens. We are monitoring each case, be it the paediatric or adult population. From January till August 23 this year, more than 8268 persons with symptoms have been screened for swine flu. Swabs of 4109 persons were sent for tests and 617 were positive with swine flu fever, Dr Wavare said.
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Well, they finally got Big Orange. You were starting to think it could never happen. How could it happen? Once you accused a man of racism, fascism, sexism, embezzlement, perjury, sex crimes, mental illness, treason (The last of which, by the way, is a death penalty offense, let us remind you) and then you impeach him twice on related grounds and after that, you send the FBI to his home to seize a handwritten welcome letter from Barack Obama, which turns out to be a state secret possession of which is a serious felony.
After you do all of that and they have, you wouldn't think there'd be a lot left to accuse the guy of. You'd think they'd have run out of sins, but no, it turns out there's one left and it's the big one.
The crime of all crimes, an offense so diabolical, so morally repugnant, so contrary to the laws of God andnature that once revealed to the public, Donald Trump is done forever. He will never again darken the door of American democracy. He will slink back in shame to his lair off the fifth teeto prepare for his well-deserved punishment. We won't see him again until sentencing. That's how bad this is. What, ladies and gentlemen, did Donald Trump do? We can now tell you. Donald Trump created the COVID vaccine. He did that himself and on purpose, with malice aforethought.
The vaccine is Donald Trump's doing. We learned that this week from Democrats in Congress. They announced that shocking news. An investigation by the Coronavirus Subcommittee found, as Politico put it, that the Trump administration pressured the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the first COVID-19 vaccines on an accelerated timeline. Following this?
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by Ivanka Trump, speaks before signing the National Security Presidential Memorandum to Launch the "Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
An accelerated timeline. They didn't even fully test the stuff. That's not science. Donald Trump doesn't do science. So, they just handed this stuff out to people, citizens, recklessly. In the words of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, Donald Trump "assaulted" our nation's public health institutions with this poison, the so-called vaccine, and in doing so "undermined our nation's coronavirus response." That's what Trump did and here's the worst part. No one knew Trump was doing it.
They trusted Donald Trump. He was the president of the United States. People believed him when he said the vaccine worked, especially older people. They knew they were at risk and they wanted to believe that a shot would keep them safe. So, they took Donald Trump's word and then they took the vax, and then a lot of them got covered anyway. It's horrifying when you think about it. Here is one of Donald Trump's elderly victims.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Hey, folks, guess you heard this morning I tested positive for COVID, but have been double vaccinated, double boosted, symptoms are mild, and I really appreciate your inquires and concerns and I'm doing well. We're getting a lot of work done and I continue to get it done.
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Look at that man. Donald Trump's vaccine did that to him. Four shots, a human pincushion, now a desiccated husk. Before he took Donald Trump's vaccine, that man was spry, filled with vigor, and then famous for his mental acuity. Look at him now and in case you think, "Oh, maybe we're overstating the case. I mean, this is a bad video," we're going to take you now to a live shot of that same man to give you some sense of the long-term effects of Donald Trump's vaccine. Here he is speaking at this moment in the state of Maryland. Watch this.
BIDEN: Social Security into the hands of Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I mean it, but it's not just Social Security. Senator Scott wants everything in the federal budget voted on de novo. Every five years it goes out of existence. That includes Medicare, veterans benefits and everything else. Then along comes Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Marjorie Taylor Greene controls Social Security? It doesn't make sense. The compassionate person in you feels for that man because you know what happened to him. He took Donald Trump's vaccine, which Democrats alerted us this week, wasn't properly tested. Now, your first reaction would be, "Wait a second, this seems like a revision of what I saw personally. Wasn't it Joe Biden who promoted the vaccine, who made it mandatory? Wasn't Joe Biden in charge when it became obvious the vaccine didn't work? And didn't Joe Biden's media tell us to get the shot months after Donald Trump left office?" You may remember that possibly because you remember clips like this.This is from July of last year.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: If you're a schoolteacher, if you're a nurse, if you're a cop, you need to get vaccinated and if you don't, you need to look for another job.
Yeah, take the vax or you're fired. In retrospect, it's pretty obvious they were carrying water for Donald Trump in that video. Now, if you're still not convinced, you're probably a cynical person, probably have concluded the Democrats are panicked about being blamed for the single greatest public health disaster in history and they're trying to shift the blame to Donald Trump before the full truth about the vaccine comes out and it is coming out and the midterms are on the way. You may have concluded that, but we're not cynical on this show. In fact, we're relieved .
Now that Donald Trump is responsible for the vaccine, we can finally talk about the vaccine. Untilnow, we haven't been able to. Until now, it's been like living in a John Cheever story where the entire country is an emotionally repressed waspfamily. It's 1952 and Darien and Dad has just passed out drunk at the dinner table, but nobody's allowed to mention it. We all have to pretend it's not happening. "Dad's fine. Be quiet." Over time, that level of denial is very hard to sustain. It makes you crazy, but thank God it's over now.
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Now that we can blame Donald Trump for the vaccine, we can finally tell the truth about the vaccine without being fired or attacked or thrown off the Internet. We really should have thought of this earlier because it feels good, the freedom of this. So, let's take a moment to talk about Donald Trump's vaccine and why it seems to be, among other things, dramatically raising death rates among young people.
According to data from New Zealand, the government there, for example, children who were vaccinated between the ages of 10 and 19, were more likely (not less likely) more likely to die within a month of vaccination than those who didn't take the vaccine in the same age group and it's not just the New Zealand government that has found this. This summer, a Dutch researcher calledAndr Redertpublished a paper entitled "COVID-19 Vaccinations and all-cause mortality."
The research analyzed hundreds of cities and towns. What did it find? "We could not observe a mortality reducing effect of vaccination in Dutch municipalities after vaccination booster campaigns. We did find a 4-sigma significant mortality enhancing effect during the two periods of high unexplained excess mortality."
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Oh, so the data suggests, don't prove, but suggests the vaccine may be killing people. Unexplained mortality is also on the rise in many other countriesAustralia, England, Wales. So why is Donald Trump's vaccine doing all of this in other countries? Well, we can't be sure, but as Alex Berenson reported on his Substack recently, the Canadian government is seeing a similar problem at huge scale.
As of this summer, people who took Donald Trump's vaccine in the Canadian province of Manitoba are roughly 50% more likely than the unvaccinated to be hospitalized or die from COVID. Again, to pause, how bad is Donald Trump's vaccine? So bad that people who take it are more likely to die of COVID. Hmm. Now we have data from more Canadian provinces, but they seem to be hiding it now. On July 28, the province of British Columbia announced it would stop reporting the number of deaths that occurred in people who have taken the COVID booster. Wow. Why is that? Don't ask. You're not allowed to. Oh, we are now because it's a Trump crime.
The charts are also missing somehow from the Internet archive, which is widely known, of course, as a front for Russian operatives working on behalf of who? Donald Trump, but we do have the most recent available data. What do those show? Well, they show that 70% of all deaths in that province occurred in people who are boosted, even though boosted individuals make up just half the province's population. Do the math on that for a minute.
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Well, your first reaction might be, "Oh, well, vaccinated and boosted people tend to be older, so of course, they're dying at a greater rate. It has nothing to do with the shot," but then you look deeper. You read, for example, the Lancet article entitled "Risk of Infection, Hospitalization and Death up to nine months after a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine" and that piece shows that people over the age of 80 have worse outcomes and by worse, we mean more hospitalizations, more deaths when they're vaccinated than when they are unvaccinated.
So, it turns out when Donald Trump told you, as he did hundreds of times, certainly you must remember this, that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, it turned out to be exactly the opposite and we're seeing this in a lot of different places, in a lot of different data sets. In fact, as Kenji Yamamoto wrote in the Journal of Virology, "The Lancet study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals eight months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among unvaccinated individuals."
That sounds like it's hurting people's immune system in a profound way. As the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology put it after an independent study, "Vaccination introduces a profound impairment in type one interferon signaling which has diverse adverse consequences to human health." That doesn't sound good. What consequences could they be talking about?
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, late Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in New York. AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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Well, in July, the German government put out a Tweet stating that at least one out of every 5,000 COVID shots causes "serious side effects." One in 5,000. Really? This is a shot that was taken by hundreds of millions of people, including in this country. What effects are theyactually talking about? Well, those would include decreased sperm counts. The journal Andrology reported in June that there was a 22% average drop in total sperm count in samples taken 3 to 5 months after the second Pfizer dose of the vaccine, Donald Trump's vax.
On top of that, there is heart inflammation, myocarditis, which is now suddenly famous in neighborhoods across the country because everyone seems to know someone else's son who has it. In December of last year, researchers at Oxford found that, "myocarditis risk was increased during 1 to 28 days following a third dose of the vaccine. Associations were strongest in males younger than 40 years for all vaccine types," but you knew that because you're seeing it among people you know and no one's talking about it.
We're not allowed to talk about it, but now we can because Trump did it. Researchers in Israel, meanwhile, found that vaccination increased the 42-day risk of myocarditis by a factor of three. It's a very serious heart condition, not a small finding. Now, you may have also noticed the rise in young athletes dying of heart attacks in recent months, something you're not allowed to notice, but you probably can't help yourself.
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For example, a 37-year-old cycling champion in Scotland calledRab Wardelljust died of a heart attack two days after winning a national mountain biking championship. Can't say he was out of shape. Maybe it wasn't vax related. Have you seen that a lot before? Hmm and then there are those five doctors you may have read about in Toronto who died in the same month in July. Now, of that group of five dead physicians, there was a 27-year-old triathlete who died after a swimming competition and a 50-year-old Olympian who died after a run. So, these are not people who are sitting on the couch smoking weed and eating Doritos.
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Now, we can't know why all of this happened, but the point is we're allowed to notice now, and that's significant, especially since some places are still forcing children to take the vaccine and that would include most colleges in the United States. They just announced that boosters are mandatory. In the District of Columbia, which is falling apart, the mayor has decided, she declared this today, that unvaccinated students will not be allowed in school.
They won't even get virtual learning unless they take a vaccine, Donald Trump's vaccine, that appears to be hurting a lot of people, but unless they take it, they will get no education whatsoever. Hmm. Who knew that Muriel Bowser, the resolutely partisan Democrat who runs Washington, D.C., was actually working for Donald Trump, but she appears to be. At least you know who to blame.
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Syringes ready to be administered to residents who are over 50 years old and immunocompromised and are eligible to receive their second booster shots of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines are seen in Waterford, Michigan, U.S., April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Emily Elconin
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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The United States plans to roll out an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine to include Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus. Regulators are reviewing the shots and could give the go-ahead as soon as next week.
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Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) with partner BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) and Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) completed applications this week to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 vaccine boosters retooled to target versions of the Omicron variant of the virus.
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These so-called bivalent vaccines include both the currently dominant BA.4/BA.5 Omicron subvariants and the original version of the virus.
The Pfizer vaccine would be for people aged 12 and older, while Moderna's would be for those 18 and older.
The FDA will likely decide on the vaccine soon. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has scheduled a two-day meeting of its expert advisers beginning Sept. 1, a step that typically follows FDA authorization.
The United States has ordered 175 million doses from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, which are expected to be ready to ship in September.
Government health officials say the boosters are needed because immunity wanes over time and the vaccines help prevent serious disease and death.
Several experts said they do not expect the updated vaccines to be game changing and urged public health officials not to overstate their benefits.
"What the administration is asking us to do is to accept this bivalent vaccine is significantly better than the current ancestral strain vaccine. It would be nice if there were data to support that," said Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the FDA's vaccine advisory panel.
"Right now, what they're asking you to do is trust them, and to trust them with mouse data, and I think that's a lot to ask."
Currently, a fourth shot, or second booster, is restricted largely to people over 50 and those who are immunocompromised or at high risk. The government plans to open the Omicron boosters to people from age 12, according to a CDC document.
People in these same risk groups are most likely to benefit from the new boosters, said Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease epidemiologist and an editor-at-large at Kaiser Health News.
"If you don't fall into one of those categories, it's really a toss up as to how much additional benefit you're going to get," she said.
Gounder recommends those who have recently gotten a booster or COVID-19 wait at least three months to give the immune system the best chance to mount a robust response.
John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, said the most important boost is the first one. "Anyone who has not received that boost should do so as soon as possible, and irrespective of the composition of the vaccine," he said.
Pfizer has presented data on its BA.4/BA.5 booster from studies in labs and animals. The company says it generated a strong neutralizing antibody response against those and other Omicron variants, as well as the original strain of the virus.
The company provided regulators with data from a human trial testing the immune response of a shot that combined the original vaccine with the BA.1 Omicron variant. It plans this month to start a similar trial of the BA.4/BA.5 booster in those aged 12 and older.
Moderna's application to the FDA includes data from animal studies of the BA.4/BA.5 booster. A mid-to-late stage trial for the vaccine in people is underway.
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Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington, Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago and Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Caroline Humer and Bill Berkrot
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Washington-based correspondent covering U.S. healthcare and pharmaceutical policy with a focus on the Department of Health and Human Services and the agencies it oversees such as the Food and Drug Administration, previously based in Iraq and Egypt.
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