{"id":13219,"date":"2020-05-04T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2020-05-04T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:05:01","slug":"covid19gate-vaccines-contaminated-retroviruses-majorly-contribute-to-coronavirus-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=13219","title":{"rendered":"COVID19gate: Vaccines Contaminated Retroviruses MAJORLY Contribute to <i>Coronavirus Syndrome<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Could Retroviruses Play a Role in COVID-19?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodytext\" class=\"bodytextdiv\">\n<p>Getting back to the issue of gammaretroviruses, Mikovits research showed that many of our vaccines are contaminated with them. How did this happen? In short, vaccine viruses were replicated and grown in animal cell cultures that were already contaminated with retroviruses. In other words, the root of the problem stems from the use of contaminated cell culture lines.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine manufacturing frequently involves the use of animal tissues and many vaccines are grown animal culture cell lines. As noted in the 2010 paper, \u201cOf Mice and Men: On the Origin of XMRV,\u201d published in Frontiers in Microbiology (which Mikovits did not work on):<sup><span id=\"edn3\" data-hash=\"#ednref3\">3<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe novel human retrovirus xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is arguably the most controversial virus of this moment. After its original discovery in prostate cancer tissue from North American patients, it was subsequently detected in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome from the same continent \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The detection of integrated XMRV proviruses in prostate cancer tissue proves it to be a genuine virus that replicates in human cells, leaving the question: how did XMRV enter the human population? <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>We will discuss two possible routes: either via direct virus transmission from mouse to human \u2026 or via the use of mouse-related products by humans, including vaccines. We hypothesize that mouse cells or human cell lines used for vaccine production could have been contaminated with a replicating variant of the XMRV precursors encoded by the mouse genome.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mikovits goes even further, explaining that, \u201cIt became clear in 2011 that these [gammaretro]viruses had adapted to become aerosolized.\u201d This is a rather shocking finding, and this, Mikovits says, is what allows the gammaretroviruses to spread in laboratories from one cell line to another.<\/p>\n<p>This could be related to research catalyzed by Charles Lieber, the former head of Harvard\u2019s chemistry department, who is a nanoscience experts and was arrested by federal authorities earlier this year for working with the Wuhan Virology Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Lab workers may also be inadvertently spreading them as they are using cell lines contaminated with retroviruses in vaccine production that could result in the spread of these retroviruses via the finished vaccine. Mikovits suspects COVID-19 may in fact be a type of vaccine-derived or vaccine-induced retroviral infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t believe [COVID-19] is infection from without,\u201d she says. \u201cI believe the spread across [210] countries<sup><span id=\"edn4\" data-hash=\"#ednref4\">4<\/span><\/sup> is from injection, and there&#8217;s enough evidence to support that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"productad\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2>SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 A Combination of SARS, Gammaretroviruses and HIV<\/h2>\n<p>Another of her theories is that SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely to have had a zoonotic origin but is likely synthetically produced. She believes it originated in and escaped or leaked from a biosafety laboratory. Mikovits believes both scenarios might be at play, where a lab-created virus, SARS-CoV-2, is causing serious infection and\/or death only in those who have underlying retroviruses in their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Mikovits suspects that people who do not have retroviral infections, SARS-CoV-2 causes no or only mild symptoms. Another possibility is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the result of growing coronaviruses in retrovirus-contaminated cell lines, producing a gammaretrovirus-carrying virus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mikovits, her 2009 through 2011 work suggested 25 million to 30 million Americans were carriers of XMRVs and other gammaretroviruses. That estimate is over a decade old now so the number is likely far higher.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThere is a family of gammaretroviruses, most likely [in] contaminated blood supply and vaccines that are still to this day, almost 10 years later, being injected,\u201d <\/em>she says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe don&#8217;t need an infectious virus if you inject the blueprint, if you inject the provirus. And \u2026 there are a lot of data to support COVID-19 is not SARS-CoV-2 alone, that it&#8217;s SARS-CoV-2 <\/em> <em>and XMRVs (human gammaretroviruses) and HIV.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Might Wearing a Mask Worsen Your Odds of Illness?<\/h2>\n<p>Mikovits is also highly critical of the recommendation (and in some places mandate) to wear a face mask or fabric cover such as a bandana around your face. She believes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWearing a mask is going to cause more secretions and give more cells a home and amplify any viruses. [Wearing a mask is] immune suppressive; it&#8217;s going to limit your body\u2019s ability to produce Type 1 interferon. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>You&#8217;re driving the infection in yourself and you&#8217;re not preventing the spread. [Instead], you&#8217;re amplifying [replication of] not just [SARS-CoV-2] but also many other [viruses], including your XMRVs, influenza or other dormant viruses. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>What keeps those dormant viruses dormant? Your natural killer (NK) cells, your mast cells, your macrophages. That&#8217;s where you&#8217;re getting the inflammatory signature. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>So, every virus you amplify is driving the inflammatory signature, and you&#8217;re going to get sick. [The resulting illness] doesn&#8217;t have to be SARS-CoV-2 at all. You\u2019re making yourself sick [by bringing dormant viruses out of dormancy]. It&#8217;s insanity.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wearing a face mask after getting a live flu vaccine may further worsen your odds, she says. Why? Because you\u2019re injecting three or more live flu virus strains into your body, which lowers your immune function. You\u2019re also going to shed the viruses contained in the vaccine. If you wear a mask, Mikovits says, you\u2019ll shed those viruses into the mask, which could encourage illness.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, not wearing one might jeopardize the health of others. \u201cIf you&#8217;re shedding [the viruses] into the air, you&#8217;re going to make somebody else get another upper respiratory infection that&#8217;s going to allow [SARS-CoV-2] to make them sicker,\u201d she warns.<\/p>\n<h2>Why PCR Testing Is a Bad Idea<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re also being lied to about the prevalence of infection. We\u2019re seeing inflated case numbers for the simple reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer requires doctors to do testing in order to confirm that a patient is in fact infected with SARS-CoV-2 or died from COVID-19. The numbers now include \u201csuspected\u201d and \u201cassumed\u201d cases.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, without widespread and accurate testing, there\u2019s no way to get a clear idea of how prevalent the infection is, and how many actually get sick and die from it. The initial emphasis on PCR testing resulted in massive false positives and greatly inflated numbers of those infected.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Mikovits, confirming each case through testing matters greatly, as there are hundreds, if not thousands, of microbes that can cause upper respiratory infections, including seasonal influenza viruses. None of those should be lumped in with COVID-19 if we want to understand the true nature and danger of this disease.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the initial decision to use RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) testing instead of antibody testing was an unwise one, as it virtually guaranteed an overestimation of the problem. RT-PCR is now being used to diagnose an active infection by detecting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material.<sup><span id=\"edn5\" data-hash=\"#ednref5\">5<\/span><\/sup> However, by doing that, you end up with high rates of false positives. Mikovits explains how the RT-PCR test works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe&#8217;re taking a swab and scraping some epithelial cells [from the back of the sinuses or throat] because that&#8217;s what coronaviruses infect \u2026 We get a little RNA \u2014 because it&#8217;s an RNA virus \u2014 we reverse-transcribe that, meaning write it backwards with enzymes in the lab, and then we amplify it [through a] polymerase chain reaction \u2026 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>We&#8217;re only taking a piece of the virus, we&#8217;re not taking the whole virus \u2026 The first thing about [the PCR] test is, it was admitted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the CDC that the tests put out by the CDC were contaminated. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>And when you amplify something a million times, or 10 million times \u2014 whatever they do in the 30 cycles or so \u2014 it&#8217;s logarithmic that RNA then is way overestimated \u2026 [But] no [viral] particle was identified or isolated from your saliva or from your nasal passages. Nobody took the secretions from your nose or your mouth and isolated the [actual] viruses. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>[When I isolated] HIV in 1983, I isolated it from saliva. What you do is you take the virus and grow it in any human cell, in an appropriate cell line, and you make many copies. [Viral replication] means you have [a positive test for] that virus. Then you sequence the whole virus. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>A PCR [test, on the other hand] can give you a lot of false positives [by amplifying RNA fragments]. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>We [also] showed the people that had [HIV] infection had antibodies; that they had been fully exposed and it was not a piece of nucleic acid in a biopsy or in their throat or in their nose. [A piece of nucleic acid] is not a virus. And it&#8217;s certainly not infectious. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>If RNA is there and in the tiniest amount, I&#8217;m not going to cough it on somebody, especially if I&#8217;m not coughing. I&#8217;m not going to breathe that [out and infect] somebody because there&#8217;s no evidence of an infectious virus.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Better Testing Strategy: Antibodies<\/h2>\n<p>Rather than using PCR testing, \u201cwhat should have been done is test for antibodies,\u201d Mikovits says. This is what was done in South Korea. An antibody test will tell you whether you had the infection at some point, and have developed a strong immune response or immunological memory that will allow you to fight the infection should you encounter it again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cEpidemiology is not done with PCR. In fact, Kary Mullis who invented PCR, Nobel Laureate, and others, said PCR was never intended for diagnostic testing. So that puts that to bed. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>It takes nothing to develop a really good serology [i.e., antibody] test \u2026 [It takes] a few weeks. It&#8217;s pretty easy because the people who have recovered have antibodies. So, you isolate those antibodies, you take their plasma, you purify the antibodies, and then you can grow them. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Then you develop the tests&#8230; It&#8217;s usually ELISA or Western Blot [which check for] the protein and the antibody binds. You form an immune complex, and you detect it with a dye. You can do that test with a finger stick \u2026 and it takes 15 minutes to get the answer, almost like a pregnancy test.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My belief is that the use of PCR instead of a proper antibody test was intentional, as it inflates the case numbers. Mikovits agrees, saying \u201cI wouldn&#8217;t get any tests right now. I&#8217;d simply wash my hands and drink hot lemon water as I always do for any flu season.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Evidence SARS-CoV-2 May Be a Lab-Created Virus<\/h2>\n<p>In the Epoch Times documentary, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2020\/04\/24\/how-did-covid-19-start.aspx\">Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus<\/a>,\u201d Mikovits details some of the evidence supporting the view that SARS-CoV-2 is not a naturally-evolved virus, but rather a laboratory concoction.<\/p>\n<p>One piece of evidence is that the virus contains a protein envelope from the HIV virus. It\u2019s also very similar to SARS which, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2020\/03\/22\/dr-francis-boyle-bioterrorism.aspx\">bioweapons expert Francis Boyle<\/a>, is an engineered bioweapon.<\/p>\n<p>As explained by Mikovits, an Indian paper<sup><span id=\"edn6\" data-hash=\"#ednref6\">6<\/span>,<\/sup><sup><span id=\"edn7\" data-hash=\"#ednref7\">7<\/span><\/sup> detailed the presence of Gp120, a protein envelope from the HIV virus. That paper was quickly retracted due to political pressure. However, Mikovits colleague, Luc Montagnier, made a similar discovery, finding Gp41 in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the transmembrane domain of the HIV virus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe folks from India also had GAG. That&#8217;s structural proteins. That gives you a clue that it wasn&#8217;t a CRISPR technique or a pseudotyping where the envelope was expressed in a gene therapy-type of way. If<\/em> <em>it were CRISPR, you wouldn&#8217;t put the GAG sequences in there. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>What was done is, the virus was acquired as they grew SARS-CoV-2 in Vero-E6 cells \u2014 the monkey kidney cells where you get HIV. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Simian immune deficiency virus was the origin, and we were told all the way back in the 80s that somebody forgot to cook their food in Africa and a few promiscuous men spread this [HIV] virus around the world. So, you can see again the patterns of the lies and of what people end up believing.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The addition of this envelope protein from HIV gives SARS-CoV-2 the ability to impair the immune system. It also contributes to its pathogenicity. Mikovits continues her explanation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe first thing is, you must grow a virus to make a lot of it. So, you grow it in cell lines. They didn&#8217;t take [SARS-CoV-2] from the bat and it jumped into a human. It normally goes through another cell [from] a monkey or a smaller animal. The cell line that supports the growth and expansion [of viruses] are monkey kidney cells. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Maybe [SARS-CoV-2] is not engineered at all \u2026 but the end result is, now it not only infects the epithelial cells of the lungs, it infects the white blood cells, it infects the immune cells. We see the splenomegaly in large spleens, we&#8217;re seeing penias, cytopenias. We&#8217;re losing cells like HIV-killing T-cells \u2026 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>So, it&#8217;s got not only an expanded host range, but also disease symptoms that make no sense for a coronavirus. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hence, we&#8217;re killing people because they&#8217;re treating an upper respiratory infection, and you&#8217;re getting that inflammatory disease signature because you&#8217;re infecting the very innate immune response, the macrophages, the monocytes, the natural killer cells, the T cells. And it&#8217;s primarily the T-cells in the macrophages because those are the cells HIV 120 and Gp41 infect through CCR5 in the CD4 receptor. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em> So now you&#8217;re going to lose your adaptive immune response, you&#8217;re going to drive the inflammation. And it\u2019s the fire [of inflammation] that does the tissue damage.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another piece that hints at SARS-CoV-2 being a manufactured virus is the construction of its spike proteins, which bind to ACE2 receptors to gain access into the cell. This appears to be an engineering feature. According to Mikovits, it\u2019s quite clear that the spike proteins came from the original SARS virus, which also infects through ACE receptors.<\/p>\n<p>There are also \u201csingle point mutations there that make it far more infectious, easier to spread,\u201d she says, \u201cand how those were acquired, nobody really can say.\u201d At least not yet. Nanotechnology may also have been used to aerosolize it for ease of transmission.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe nano[size] further increases the host range. So now you can go into every cell. Now you can go across the blood brain barrier. That&#8217;s nano. Now you don&#8217;t need a receptor. You can breathe it, it can go into every cell of the body. You don&#8217;t need the gatekeeper. You don&#8217;t need the receptor. You don&#8217;t need the lock and key.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Contaminated Cell Line Shared With Wuhan Biolab<\/h2>\n<p>According to Mikovits, one contaminated cell line is the Vero monkey kidney cell line called Vero E6, which was given by Fort Detrick \u2014 a U.S. Army Medical Command installation that hosts many of our national biological defense programs and houses the National Cancer Institute laboratory where she used to work \u2014 to the biosafety 4 laboratory (BSL-4) in Wuhan, China. This cell line is what the Wuhan lab used to grow and study coronaviruses, she says.<\/p>\n<p>The Vero cell line is listed in the 2015 paper,<sup><span id=\"edn8\" data-hash=\"#ednref8\">8<\/span><\/sup> \u201cA SARS-like Cluster of Circulating Bat Coronaviruses Shows Potential for Human Emergence,\u201d co-written by University of North Carolina researchers and Dr. Shi Zhengli, a Chinese virologist at the Wuhan lab who in 2010 published a paper<sup><span id=\"edn9\" data-hash=\"#ednref9\">9<\/span><\/sup> discussing the weaponization of the SARS virus.<\/p>\n<p>The contaminated Vero monkey kidney cells were also used in the production of polio vaccines, Mikovits notes. The original polio vaccines were passed through mice brains, as we didn&#8217;t have cell lines in the 1930s when that vaccine was originally developed. According to Mikovitz, the spread of this Vero retrovirus has occurred through laboratory workers and hospital caretakers for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s why the family studies we did were so important,\u201d she says, referring to studies in which retroviral transmission was tracked to determine how it spread between family members.<sup><span id=\"edn10\" data-hash=\"#ednref10\">10<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Alas, whenever patterns were detected, she was always directed to cover them up. Her refusal to hide the information from the public was what led to her firing in 2011. According to Mikovits, we\u2019re seeing the same pattern of sweeping evidence under the rug now during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe patterns are the same as far as the science goes, and the patterns are the same as far as the political corruption, the plague of corruption, in covering up data,\u201d<\/em> she says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Mikovits Pioneering Research in XMRV<\/h2>\n<p>In 2009, Mikovits got embroiled in controversy when she wrote a paper reporting that a retrovirus known as <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2018\/12\/09\/retrovirus.aspx\">xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus may play a causal role in CFS<\/a> and other diseases, including autism. I interviewed her about this intriguing and complex story in December 2018 (see linked sentence).<\/p>\n<p>Her career background and past troubles also involved Fauci who, according to Mikovits, is guilty of scientific fraud. She details this in her book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plague-Corruption-Restoring-Promise-Science\/dp\/1510752242\">Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Mikovits, Fauci does not appear to have changed his stripes, and is still misleading the public and hiding the truth about SARS-CoV-2, just like he did with the HIV virus and retroviral-associated diseases.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI think the way to think about the background of what&#8217;s going on right now is to go back to my first interactions with Dr. Tony Fauci when I was a 25-year-old lab technician in the National Cancer Institute. At that time, we had isolated \u2014 from blood and saliva \u2014 the lymphadenopathy virus. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>[Lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV)] was the name given to it by Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Laureate, [who] first isolated and discovered that virus and its association with HIV\/AIDS.<sup><span id=\"edn11\" data-hash=\"#ednref11\">11<\/span><\/sup><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>In that situation, Fauci delayed the serology testing [to find out] who was exposed [to HIV]. It was politicized such that the only people that were [said to be] susceptible to getting infected with HIV was gay men [and] IV drug users. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The country was told not to worry about it. It was only spread through blood and body fluids and shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for most other people. So, the testing that could have been done wasn&#8217;t done because of political reasons, and the treatments weren&#8217;t done because Fauci had patents, and \u2014 we didn&#8217;t know this at the time \u2014 the wrong type of treatment was used. That led to the spread and [death] of millions worldwide \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Discovery of Human Gammaretroviruses<\/h2>\n<p>Ultimately, Mikovits and her colleagues discovered that the HIV virus was spread through a contaminated blood supply. After that, they proceeded to look into other \u201cclearly retroviral-associated diseases,\u201d such as CFS,<sup><span id=\"edn12\" data-hash=\"#ednref12\">12<\/span><\/sup> certain kinds of autism, cancers, leukemias and lymphomas.<\/p>\n<p>Gammaretroviruses<sup><span id=\"edn13\" data-hash=\"#ednref13\">13<\/span><\/sup> are viruses that can cause cancer, leukemia and immune deficiencies in various animals. Examples include murine leukemia virus, feline leukemia virus and mink focus forming virus. As explained in a 2011 paper on gamma retroviruses:<sup><span id=\"edn14\" data-hash=\"#ednref14\">14<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cRetroviruses are evolutionary optimized gene carriers that have naturally adapted to their hosts to efficiently deliver their nucleic acids into the target cell chromatin, thereby overcoming natural cellular barriers \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Retroviral vectors are fascinating and efficient delivery tools for the transfer of nucleic acids. As a hallmark, all retroviruses are capable of reverse transcribing their single stranded RNA genome into double stranded DNA, which will be stably integrated into the host cell genome.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>As highly evolved parasites they act in concert with cellular host factors to deliver their nucleic acid into the nucleus, where they exploit the host cell\u2019s machinery for their own replication and long-term expression occurs.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The key take-home here is that retroviruses are \u201cintegrated into the host cell genome,\u201d and infection can result in \u201clong-term expression.\u201d In other words, once they\u2019re in your body, they can remain dormant, only to reactivate when conditions are favorable. In this regard, they\u2019re quite different from your average virus that, when you\u2019re exposed, invades your cells, replicates and causes symptoms, and is eventually eliminated from your body through your immune response.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Mikovits and her team discovered and isolated the first human gammaretrovirus family of retroviruses, known then as XMRVs. As mentioned earlier, XMRV stands for \u201cxenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus.\u201d Xenotrophic refers to viruses that only replicate in cells other than those of the host species. So, XMRVs are viruses that infect human cells yet are not human viruses.<sup><span id=\"edn15\" data-hash=\"#ednref15\">15<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>My Entire Interview With Judy Mikovits<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mercola.fileburst.com\/PDF\/ExpertInterviewTranscripts\/Interview-JudyMikovits-IsSARSCoV2aManufacturedVirus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Interview Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To reiterate some of the key take-home messages Mikovits delivers in this interview:<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u2022 <\/span>She believes COVID-19 \u2014 the disease \u2014 is not caused by SARS-CoV-2 alone, but rather that it\u2019s the result of a combination of SARS-CoV-2 (which appears to have been manipulated to include components of HIV that destroys immune function). Previous XMRV (human gammaretroviruses) infection may facilitate SARS-CoV-2 to express the COVID-19 illness.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, COVID-19 may be initiated by SARS-CoV-2 but dependent upon a preexisting infection with and awakening of other viruses such as XMRV, gamma retroviruses, possibly Lyme and other coinfections, including parasites, and this is why anti-parasitic medications like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin help.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u2022 <\/span>Blood products and vaccines are contaminated with XMRVs that can damage your immune system and cause CFS, cancer and other chronic diseases. The viruses spread within laboratories as they have adapted to become aerosolized, and contaminate cell lines used in vaccine production and other viral research, including research on coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u2022 <\/span>Flu vaccines have spread a host of dangerous viruses around the world, which can then interact with SARS COV-2.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u2022 <\/span>It is possible to develop safer oral vaccines, and interferon alpha could be a valuable treatment alternative against COVID-19. Aside from interferons, other treatment strategies discussed in our interview include hyperbaric oxygen therapy, cannabinoids (CBD), peptide T and antioxidant support.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u2022 <\/span>SARS-CoV-2 is more dangerous and virulent than typical coronaviruses because it includes sequences of HIV, SARS and another virus, which enable it to infect more than just your respiratory epithelium.\u00a0It can also infect blood cells and hematopoeitic organs such as the spleen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last but not least, if this topic intrigues you, be sure to pick up a copy of her new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plague-Corruption-Restoring-Promise-Science\/dp\/1510752242\">Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science<\/a>.\u201d You can also find more information on her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/plaguethebook.com\/\">plaguethebook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bcr_divfootnote\" class=\"sources-references narrow-width\">\n<h3 id=\"heading\" class=\"title link16\" data-jsid=\"sourcesReferencesBtn\">&#8211; 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