“Disturbing Parallel To HIV”: COVID-19 Can Cause Depletion Of Important Immune Cells, NY Times Admits

Once again, it looks as though what was once being peddled as
Covid-19″conspiracy theory” on our site appears to have turned out
to have been accurate news reported months before the
mainstream media. Go figure.

As far back as February 1, 2020, when the pandemic was only
starting to attract attention and the China-influenced mainstream
media was politically inclined to minimize the severity of the
disease before pulling a sharp U-turn and now going full bore with
a narrative of just how dangerous it is to reopen the economy, we
published an article referencing
an Arxiv pre-print which found that the Covid-19 genome
contained “HIV Insertions”, stoking fears that the virus was an
artificially created bioweapon.

While the mere suggestion that this virus was man-made –
nevermind sharing discrete segments of its genetic structure with
HIV – sparked outrage among the well-paid mercenary enforcers of
the First Amendment known as “fact-checkers” who are employed by
such biased organizations as Twitter and Facebook to stifle any
line of inquiry that runs contrary to whatever dominant narrative
has been blessed by the Zuckerbergs and Dorseys of the world,
it was none other than the man who discovered the HIV virus
back in 1983, that confirmed our suspicions saying that “the virus
was man-made.”

We then reported
in April that Professor Luc Montagnier, the 2008 Nobel Prize
winner for Medicine, claimed that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus
that was accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan,
China, and added that the Wuhan
laboratory, known for its work on coronaviruses, tried to use one
of these viruses as a vector for HIV in the search for an AIDS
vaccine.

This is the same conclusion we explored months before the
mainstream media when we suggested that COVID-19 may have emerged
from a lab in Wuhan instead of being man-made. For being early in
what is increasingly looking like a very accurate assertion, a
Buzzfeed journalist wrote a hit-piece about Zero Hedge that
resulted in us being banned from Twitter.

But here we stand, months later. We have since been
reinstated on Twitter and the journalist in question has been
 fired
for plagiarism after BuzzFeed’s new editor-in-chief, Mark
Schoofs, published “A
Note To Our Readers” detailing eleven instances where he lifted
content from other publications without attribution going back
to 2013, including his hit-piece against Zero Hedge.

Our lab origin “conspiracy theory” has gained widespread support
and is the focus of several international
investigations into the CCP lab. And just this week, we found
out that and the HIV link that we first reported on months ago, and
followed up on last month, continues to only get stronger.

As the mainstream media desperately plays catch-up,
The New York Times released a piece yesterday called “How the
Coronavirus Short-Circuits the Immune System” and said that
“In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can
cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies
found.”

“Now researchers have discovered yet another unpleasant
surprise. In many patients hospitalized with the
coronavirus, the immune system is threatened by a depletion of
certain essential cells, suggesting eerie parallels with
H.I.V.,” the article says. 

The assertions could explain why few kids get sick and why a
“cocktail” of treatments may be needed to bring the coronavirus
under control, similar to how H.I.V. is treated. 

Dr. John Wherry, an immunologist at the University of
Pennsylvania said that research now points to â€œvery complex
immunological signatures of the virus.†The NY Times wrote: 

In May, Dr. Wherry and his colleagues posted online a paper
showing a range of immune system defects in severely ill patients,
including a loss of virus-fighting T cells in parts of the
body.

In a separate study, the investigators identified three patterns
of immune defects, and concluded that T cells and B cells, which
help orchestrate the immune response, were inactive in roughly 30
percent of the 71 Covid-19 patients they examined. None of the
papers have yet been published or peer reviewed.

Researchers in China have reported a similar depletion of T
cells in critically ill patients, Dr. Wherry noted. But
the emerging data could be difficult to interpret, he said —
“like a Rorschach test.â€

“It is hard to separate the effects of simply being critically
ill and in an I.C.U., which can cause havoc on your immune
system,†Wherry continued.

The researchers found that the immune system could actually
become impaired because it overreacts to the virus, as happens in
sepsis patients. They found that in Covid-19 patients, there was a
marked increase in a molecule called IP10, which sends T cells to
where they are needed in the body. Patients with coronavirus, as
well as SARS and MERS, see a level of IP10 molecules that go up and
stay up, which can create “chaotic signaling” in the body. 

Dr. Adrian Hayday, an immunologist at King’s College London
said: “It’s like Usain Bolt hearing the starting gun and
starting to run. Then someone keeps firing the starting gun over
and over. What would he do? He’d stop, confused and
disoriented.â€

This causes some T-cells, usually prepared to destroy the virus,
to become confused and act “abberrantly”. Recovery becomes tougher
for those over 40 because the thymus gland, which is responsible
for creating new T-cells, becomes less efficient. In kids, the
thymus glad works much better. 

An overreaction of the immune system, causing things like a
cytokine storm, may also be able to be treated by blocking a
molecule called ID6, which helps organize immune cells. 

“There clearly are some patients where IL-6 is elevated, and
so suppressing it may help. But the core goal should be to restore
and resurrect the immune system, not suppress it,†Hayday
said. 

Hayday believes an antiviral treatment may make the most sense,
given the newfound information: â€œI have not lost one ounce of my
optimism. A vaccine would be great. But with the logistics of its
global rollout being so challenging, it’s comforting to think we
may not depend on one.â€

Recall, we had
previously written that the South China Morning Post reported a
study by Chinese scientists found that the novel coronavirus uses
the same strategy to evade attack from the human immune system as
HIV. Specifically, both viruses remove marker molecules on the
surface of an infected cell that are used by the immune system to
identify invaders, we noted.

The researchers warned that this commonality could mean
Sars-CoV-2, the clinical name for the virus, could be around for
some time, like HIV.

We wrote in May:

And here is where things gets very messy for the frauds known as
“fact-checkers” who – without any actual facts or knowledge – threw
up all over our February report that the coronavirus shared genetic
material with HIV: while the mainstream media did everything in its
power to censor any suggestions that Covid and HIV having genetic
similarities (after all who wants to be threatened by an airborne
version of AIDS) now it is none other than the South
China Morning Post which writes that “earlier studies
found the spike protein of the new coronavirus had a structure that
allowed it to enter many types of human cells and bind with them.
The same structure was also found in HIV, but not in other
coronaviruses found in animals such as bats and
pangolins.”

At this point, the New York Times and the SCMP appear to have
pointed out all the exact same facts – that the coronavirus not
only shares genetic material with HIV, but also
evades and cripples the immune system in a similar
way to HIV – that got the “highly respected” StatNews to accuse
Zero Hedge of spreading an “infodemic.”

As we said last month:

“We wonder if StatNews author John Gregory will append
his “analysis” now that actual “facts” have emerged showing that
it’s not the infodemic we should be afraid of, but
the censordemic.”