Coronavirus
Spreading Among the Vaccinated in Highly Vaccinated Countries
Analysis by The Vaccine Reaction
August 03, 2021
A recent study
published by King's College in London, which operates the ZOE COVID Study app
to monitor COVID infection and vaccination rates, found that, as of July 15,
2021, there was an average of 15,537 new daily symptomatic cases COVID-19 among
partly or fully vaccinated people in the United Kingdom—an increase of 40
percent from the previous week's total of 11,084 new cases.1,2
Infections in Vaccinated
People in U.K. Are Outpacing Infections in the Unvaccinated
The Zoe COVID
Study, led by epidemiologist Tim Spector, MD, of Kings College in London,
estimated that there were 17,581 new daily symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in
unvaccinated people, or 22 percent less than the previous week's total of
22,638 new cases.
According to a
press release issued by the study's authors, "With cases in the vaccinated
group continuing to rise, the number of new cases in the vaccinated population
is set to overtake the unvaccinated in the coming days."3,4
On July 17, the
U.K.'s Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, announced he had tested positive for the
SARS-CoV-2 virus despite having received two doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford
University's experimental AZD1222 COVID vaccine on Mar. 17 and May 16.5 In a message posted
on Twitter, Javid wrote:
"This morning I tested positive for COVID. I'm
waiting for my PCR result, but thankfully I have had my jabs and symptoms are
mild."6
With a
population of more than 66 million people, two-thirds of adults in the U.K.
have received COVID-19 vaccine, representing a total of 82,592,996 vaccinations
as of July 20. Some 46,349,709 Britons have received the first dose and
36,243,287 have gotten the second dose. The country is not vaccinating
children.7
The U.K. is
among the most highly vaccinated countries in the world, but it is experiencing
a third wave of coronavirus infections reportedly largely due to the spread of
the Delta variant of the virus.8,9 Other highly vaccinated
countries like Israel are also experiencing a new wave of coronavirus
infections due to the Delta variant.
Most Infections in Israel
Are Among Vaccinated People
In Israel,
about 60 percent of the country's population of 9.3 million has received at
least one dose of a COVID vaccine. About 85 percent of adults in Israel have
been vaccinated. Yet most of the new coronavirus infections are occurring in
vaccinated people.10
In early-July,
former Health Minister Chezy Levy, MD confirmed that "55 percent of the
newly infected [people in Israel] had been vaccinated."11
There has also
been a concerning rise in the number of vaccinated people in Israel being
hospitalized. An article in The Jerusalem Post last week noted that the Israeli
Health Ministry reported 124 people had been hospitalized for COVID-19 on July
20 and that 65 percent of them were fully vaccinated. Of the 124 people, 62
were in serious condition and 70% of those patients were fully vaccinated.12
Earlier this
month, the Health Ministry estimated that the Pfizer/BioNTech's BNT162b2 COVID
biologic was only 64 percent effective in preventing symptomatic infections of
COVID-19, specifically those caused by the Delta variant. But the effectiveness
rate for Pfizer's experimental COVID vaccine in preventing infection (and
transmission) could be lower.13
"We do not
know exactly to what degree the vaccine helps, but it is significantly
less," said Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.14
Infections in Chile,
Seychelles and Mongolia Mostly in Vaccinated People
Another example
of a highly vaccinated country which has been experiencing a new outbreak of
coronavirus infections mostly among its vaccinated population is Chile. Of the
thousands of new coronavirus cases being reported daily in that country, 80
percent of them are in vaccinated people. Chile has fully vaccinated 55 percent
of its population.15
The examples of
the U.K., Israel and Chile, as well as other highly vaccinated countries like
the Seychelles and Mongolia experiencing coronavirus infections mostly within
the vaccinated segments of their populations pose a dilemma.16 The governments of
these countries have to decide if the problem is that not enough of their
people have been vaccinated, or that the vaccines are simply not as effective
as initially assumed they would be.
Could Vaccinations Be
Causing Rise in Infections?
There is also a
third possible problem which was raised by French virologist and Nobel laureate
Luc Montagnier, MD in May 2021. In an interview with Pierre Barnérias of
Hold-Up Media, Dr. Montagnier said he believed that the mass vaccination
programs for COVID may actually be causing SARS-CoV-2 mutations like the Delta
variant and, thus, prolonging the pandemic.17
Dr. Montagnier
explained that in each country that undertakes a mass vaccination campaign,
"the curve of vaccinations is followed by the curve of deaths." He
said that the COVID vaccines create antibodies that force the virus to
"find another solution" or "die," adding that it is the
variants that "are a production and result from the vaccination."18
Dr.
Montagnier's views are admittedly controversial. The thought that vaccinations
may actually be exacerbating the COVID pandemic is perhaps too difficult a
concept for government officials to consider. But this possibility should not
be dismissed outright.
One of the best
explanations of this dynamic was given by Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and
president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in a 2011 interview
when she described the evolution of pertussis bacteria to evade the vaccines:
"[E]very
life form wants to live, wants to survive. Universal principle. And viruses and
bacteria are no exception. And when you put a pressure on a virus or bacteria
that's circulating, with the use of a vaccine that contains a lab-altered form
of that virus or bacteria, it doesn't seem that it would be illogical to
understand that that organism is going to fight to survive, it's going to find
a way to adapt in order to survive."19
- Sources
and References
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1, 3 COVID Symptom Study. New cases plateau ahead of
Freedom Day. July
15, 2021
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5, 6, 7, 8 Reuters. British health minister Sajid Javid tests
positive for coronavirus. South China Morning Post July 17, 2021
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10 Pflughoeft A. A look inside Israel’s recent
coronavirus outbreak. Deseret
News July 20, 2021
