LRRC15 as a Blocker
Many people believe the only way out of this pandemic is a sterilizing vaccine (one that blocks infection rather than only reducing the severity of the acute stage). That isn’t true. We don’t have a vaccine against HIV, sterilizing or otherwise, yet it is no longer as big a terror as it once was.
If we can develop medications to nip infection in the bud and make those drugs readily available, that could be enough. It’s the next best thing to a sterilizing vaccine.
In conversations with my wife, I often say I expect that to come through before the type of vaccine we want. There’s a bonus in having such medicines available. They can help people who aren’t able to take a vaccine or whose immune systems don’t respond normally to vaccines.
Some research groups are looking for ways to create drugs that can prevent SARS-CoV-2 from infecting us. As an example, a group at the University of Sydney has identified a protein that ensnares the virus so well, the virus isn’t able to infect its targets.
The virus uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to get into cells. ACE2 occurs in many parts of the human body. Another receptor called leucine-rich repeat-containing protein 15 (LRRC15) occurs in many parts of the body too, and also latches onto the virus. But the virus can’t use LRRC15 to get into cells.
If LRRC15 attaches to the virus before it reaches ACE2, the virus is blocked from causing infection. LRRC15 also turns out to be involved in controlling the body’s response to viruses and to fibrosis. Looking at human lungs, the researchers found that LRRC15 becomes much more prevalent after the lungs begin to be infected with SARS-CoV-2.
A separate research group at Imperial College London found that LRRC15 levels in the blood tend to be low in people with severe acute COVID.
In short, it looks like that protein may be part of the body’s defense against the virus. If you don’t have enough of it, COVID makes you sicker.
The University of Sydney group is now exploring use of LRRC15 against SARS-CoV-2 in a couple of ways: at the nose for prevention, and in the lungs to treat severe acute cases.
We don’t have preventive drugs yet, but this is a clear example of progress.
This is why I don’t fixate on wanting a sterilizing vaccine. We might have more than one exit from this pandemic, a this-will-do door and an ideal door. Good prevention and treatment will do, and research is moving along toward it at what would have been considered a breakneck pace with any earlier pandemic. I anticipate it will offer a this-will-do exit years before vaccines can.
Good news for all of us still taking the pandemic seriously. We can stop the pandemic now - the mechanisms are there. The problem is that the rich and powerful in the West decided to let it rip through their populations (the rest of the world eventually had to follow suit). It is not that we don't have solutions, but that we (poorer people in society) have been thrown under the bus of recurring infection disease. It didn't and does not have to be this way.
Bonnie, the C shot is a PATENTED BIOWEAPON, and it needs to be exposed before more people are killed. It does not cure anything! It changes your DNA and destroys your immune system. Karen Kingston is a pharmaceutical analyst. She provides the patent numbers and synopsis in which she explains in great detail how these bioweapons work. Millions of people have been killed or maimed for life. This is the greatest genocide in history. Now Atty general Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against Pfizer, and all of this is finally coming out. I sent you links to this, but apparently you do not have time to review scientific data. Please educate yourself and use your platform to save lives. PLEASE follow KarenKingston on substack. Watch the Stew Peters show on Rumble. Follow Dr. Judy Mikovitz—she worked with Faucci. (Of course they tried to destroy her reputation. Forget that —just listen to what she has to say.).