05/27/2026
"Two young people dead. Dozens hospitalized. And the official explanation — a bacterial cluster in Canterbury — only tells half the story. Now, another outbreak in Reading with one more death! The real question public health authorities haven't answered is why so many people carry this bacteria in their throats harmlessly, while a vulnerable minority deteriorate to invasive sepsis within hours. Dr. Philip McMillan examines the clinical and immunological evidence pointing to a deeper shift in host susceptibility — one that may have been quietly reshaping who develops invasive meningococcal disease since the pandemic."
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When Sepsis Stops Looking Like Sepsis
Kyle Busch’s reported pneumonia-to-sepsis death raises a wider question: are serious infections now presenting differently than they did before the pandemic?
https://philipmcmillan.substack.com/p...
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"In this analysis, Dr. McMillan — a UK physician with over six years tracking post-pandemic immune patterns — explores the role of asymptomatic meningococcal carriage, post-viral mucosal barrier disruption, and upper airway immune dysfunction in determining which individuals cross from carrier to patient. Drawing on the emerging evidence around post-viral immune remodelling and altered innate defence, this is not a standard outbreak explainer. It is a hypothesis-driven clinical investigation into a pattern that mainstream coverage has not examined — and one that may have significant implications for how we understand infection vulnerability in the years ahead."
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https://www.youtube.com/live/WDCYSFWJjzI?si=itSy6RQh4cIg-Nua
Two young people dead. Dozens hospitalized. And the official explanation — a bacterial cluster in Canterbury — only tells half the story. Now, another outbre...