Getting Sick More Often Because of "Immunity Theft or Debt"
Concepts Proposed to Explain Kids and Adults Getting Sick More Often
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Prior to the pandemic, I was healthy and on average had 2-4 head colds per year. In 2020, I contracted COVID-19, probably the alpha variant with some pulmonary involvement. Treated late in an FDA approved RCT with drugs that later were incorporated into the McCullough Protocol. In 2021 I declined COVID-19 vaccination, and contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection a second time, probably with Omicron. In 2022, I had no less than 12 upper respiratory tract infections (URI) with post-infectious asthma. In 2023 I had at least six such infections with the finale being a three month illness with persistent, productive cough. Many of you saw me on national TV or podcasts with a raw voice and at times an unstoppable cough. Could SARS-CoV-2 infection or something about the pandemic response altered my immunity to common respiratory viruses? Has this happened to you or your children?
An OPED appeared in JAMA from Rita Rubin, a medical writer introducing new pandemic terms “immunity theft” and “immunity debt.” The paper largely focusses on children and hints at either lockdowns, social distancing, masks, or other factors that could have changed our susceptibility to common upper respiratory tract infections including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children. Not mentioned in the paper are recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination, both of which install the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein in the body as a constant stimulus and potentially a distractor or suppressant to the immune system.
Rubin also failed to mention the emerging literature on false positive HIV tests occurring both after COVID-19 illness and vaccination. Even though the HIV virus is not present, could the antigens that are stimulating HIV antibodies also work as immunosuppressants?
I recognize this article raises more questions than it answers, but I wanted our readers to be thinking about the effects in their bodies of what happened:
2020, 2021 we all had less exposure other other people and the viruses they harbor
Virtually of us contracted SARS-CoV-2 at least once if not more
75% of Americans took one or more COVID-19 vaccines, 94% were mRNA products probably still in the body altering the immune system today
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Chief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Company
Doc McCullough - after 4 years I've still never had covid. Am I really part of a tiny minority - or were a certain proportion of people always somehow immune naturally? I live alone which might also limit exposure - and past 2-3 years I've been using Zelenko style supplements daily with EGCG or quercetin zinc and vit D so maybe that's also a factor. I've also not had a cold or flu in past 4 years which seems a bit weird.
I would have thought that constant over-work and psychological stress was likely a major factor in your poor health during the Covid years.