Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked
· September 06, 2021
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE
· According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who got the COVID shot early
are now at increased risk for severe COVID disease
· This may be a sign that
antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) is occurring, or it may simply indicate
that the protection offered is limited to a few months, at best
· Recent research warns the
Delta variant “is posed to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike
vaccines.” This could turn into a worst-case scenario that sets up those who
have received the Pfizer shots for more severe illness when exposed to the virus
· To “stay ahead of the
virus,” the Biden administration is now considering recommending a booster shot
five months after the initial two doses rather than waiting eight months, as
previously suggested
· Israeli data show Pfizer’s
shot went from a 95% effectiveness at the outset to 39% by late July 2021, when
the Delta strain became predominant. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s
expectation for any vaccine is an efficacy rate of at least 50% compared to
placebo
The official
COVID-19 vaccine narrative changes rapidly these days. It took just one month
for it to go from “if you’re vaccinated you’re not going to get COVID,”1 including the Delta
variant,2 to “people who got
vaccinated early are at increased risk for severe COVID disease.”3
From the get-go,
I and many other medical experts have warned of the possibility of these shots
causing antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), a situation in which the shot
actually facilitates a cascade of disease complications rather than protects
against it. As a result, you may suffer more severe illness when encountering
the wild virus than had you not been “vaccinated.”
While we don’t
yet have definitive proof that ADE is occurring, we are seeing suspicious signs
that it might be. Data showing those who got the shot early this year are now
at increased risk of severe infection could be such a sign. At bare minimum,
it’s an indication that the protection you get from these shots is very
temporary, lasting only a few months.
This makes
sense when you consider they program your body to produce just one type of
antibody against a specific spike protein. Once the spike protein, or other
elements in the virus, starts to mutate, protection radically diminishes.
Worse, the vaccine facilitates the actual production of the variants because it
is “leaky” and provides only partial ineffective immune protection.
Natural
immunity is far superior, as when you recover from the infection, your body
makes antibodies against all five proteins of the virus, plus memory T cells
that remain even once antibody levels diminish. This gives you far better
protection that will likely be lifelong, unless you have impaired immune
function.
Real-world data
from Israel confirms this, showing those who have received the COVID jab are
6.72 times more likely to get infected than people with natural immunity.4,5,6
CDC Admits ‘Vaccine’
Immunity Doesn’t Last
In an August
20, 2021, report, BPR noted:7
“’The data we will publish today and next week
demonstrate the vaccine effectiveness against SARS COVID 2 infection is
waning,’ the CDC director [Rochelle Walensky] began … She cited reports of
international colleagues, including Israel ‘suggest increased risk of severe
disease amongst those vaccinated early.’
Fear not, the same people who tried to sell
Americans immunity through a jab and promised to hand back the freedoms they
impeded on have a plan, and they’re not leaving much room for personal choice.
‘In the context of these concerns, we are planning
for Americans to receive booster shots starting next month to maximize vaccine
induced protection. Our plan is to protect the American people and to stay
ahead of this virus,’ Walensky shared …
The CDC director appears to all but admit that the
vaccine’s efficacy rate has a strict time limit, and its protections are
limited in the ever-changing environment.
‘Given this body of evidence, we are concerned that
the current strong protection against severe infection, hospitalization and
death could decrease in the months ahead. Especially among those who are higher
risk or those who were vaccinated earlier during the phases of our vaccination
roll out,’ Walensky explained …
Starting September 20, Americans who completed
their two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine at least eight months ago will
be eligible for a booster shot. The goalposts back to a ‘normal’ society
continue to be moved further and further. When will Americans, especially those
who complied with initial vaccinations, have had enough?”
Data Reveal Rapidly Waning
Immunity From Shots
Indeed, Israeli
data show Pfizer’s shot went from a 95% effectiveness at the outset, to 64% in
early July 2021 and 39% by late July, when the Delta strain became predominant.8,9 Meanwhile, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration’s expectation for any vaccine is an efficacy rate
of at least 50%.
Pfizer’s own
trial data even showed rapidly waning effectiveness as early as March 13, 2021.
BMJ associate editor Peter Doshi discussed this in an August 23, 2021, blog.10
By the fifth
month into the trial, efficacy had dropped from 96% to 84%, and this drop could
not be due to the emergence of the Delta variant since 77% of trial
participants were in the U.S., where the Delta variant didn’t emerge until
months later. This suggests the COVID shot has a very temporary effectiveness
regardless of new variants.
What’s more,
while Israeli authorities claim the Pfizer shot is still effective at
preventing hospitalization and death, many who are double-jabbed do end up in
the hospital, and we’re already seeing a shift in hospitalization rates from
the unvaccinated to those who have gotten one or two injections. For example,
by mid-August, 59% of serious COVID cases were among Israelis who had received
two COVID injections.11
Vaxxed Over Age 50 at
Increased Risk for Serious Infection
Data from the
U.K. show a similar trend among those over the age of 50. In this age group,
partially and fully “vaccinated” people account for 68% of hospitalizations and
70% of COVID deaths.12
Data13 from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention also raise questions about the usefulness of
the COVID shots. Between July 6 and July 25, 2021, 469 COVID cases were
identified in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, outbreak.
Of those who
tested positive, 74% had received two COVID injections and were considered
“fully vaccinated.” Even despite using different diagnostic standards for
non-jabbed and jabbed individuals, a whopping 80% of COVID-related
hospitalizations were also in this group.14,15
Although
Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2-immune sera neutralized the Delta variant, when four
common mutations were introduced into the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the
Delta variant (Delta 4+), some BNT162b2-immune sera lost neutralizing activity
and enhanced the infectivity. ~ bioRxiv, August 23, 2021
The CDC also
confirmed that fully vaccinated individuals who contract the infection have as
high a viral load in their nasal passages as unvaccinated individuals who get
infected, proving there’s no difference between the two, in terms of being a
transmission risk.16
If vaccination
status has no bearing on the potential risk you pose to others, why do we need
vaccine passports? According to Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, this
evidence demolishes the case for passports.17 They clearly cannot
ensure safety, as evidenced by outbreaks where the vaccination rate was 100%.
Examples include outbreaks onboard a Carnival cruise liner18 and the HMS Queen
Elizabeth, a British Navy flagship.19
Study Predicts Pfizer Shot
Will Enhance Delta Infectivity
A study20 posted August 23,
2021, on the preprint server bioRxiv now warns the Delta variant “is posed to
acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines.” This could
essentially turn into a worst-case scenario that sets up those who have
received the Pfizer shots for more severe illness when exposed to the virus. As
explained by the authors:21
“Although Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2-immune sera
neutralized the Delta variant, when four common mutations were introduced into
the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the Delta variant (Delta 4+), some BNT162b2-immune
sera lost neutralizing activity and enhanced the infectivity.
Unique mutations in the Delta NTD were involved in
the enhanced infectivity by the BNT162b2-immune sera. Sera of mice immunized by
Delta spike, but not wild-type spike, consistently neutralized the Delta 4+
variant without enhancing infectivity.
Given the fact that a Delta variant with three
similar RBD mutations has already emerged according to the GISAID database, it
is necessary to develop vaccines that protect against such complete
breakthrough variants.”
Proactive Use of COVID
Shots Drive Dangerous Mutations
It’s now clear
that early warnings against mass vaccination during an active outbreak are
being realized. It’s not the unvaccinated that are driving mutations; it’s the
vaccinated, as the injections simply do not prevent infection.
The end result,
if we keep going, will be a treadmill of continuous injections to keep up with
the merry-go-round of waning effectiveness in general combined with the
emergence of vaccine-resistant variants. As reported by Live Science:22
“Vaccine-resistant coronavirus mutants are more
likely to emerge when a large fraction of the population is vaccinated and
viral transmission is high … In other words, a situation that looks a lot like
the current one in the U.S.
The mathematical model,23 published
July 30 in the journal Scientific Reports, simulates how the rate of
vaccination and rate of viral transmission in a given population influence
which SARS-CoV-2 variants come to dominate the viral landscape …
If viral transmission is low, any vaccine-resistant
mutants that do emerge get fewer chances to spread, and thus, they're more
likely to die out, said senior author Fyodor Kondrashov, who runs an
evolutionary genomics lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.”
These findings
come as no surprise to those familiar with previous research showing the same
exact thing. As explained in “Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve,”
published in Quanta Magazine,24 “Just as antibiotics breed resistance in
bacteria, vaccines can incite changes that enable diseases to escape their
control.”
The article
details the history of the anti-Marek’s disease vaccine for chickens, first
introduced in 1970. Today, we’re on the third version of this vaccine, as
within a decade, it stops working. The reason? The virus has mutated to evade
the vaccine. As a result of these leaky vaccines, the virus is becoming
increasingly deadly and more difficult to treat.
A 2015 paper25 in PLOS Biology
tested the theory that vaccines are driving the mutation of the herpesvirus
causing Marek’s disease in chickens. To do that, they vaccinated 100 chickens
and kept 100 unvaccinated. All of the birds were then infected with varying
strains of the virus. Some strains were more virulent and dangerous than
others.
Over the course
of the birds’ lives, the unvaccinated ones shed more of the least virulent
strains into the environment, while the vaccinated ones shed more of the most
virulent strains. As noted in the Quanta Magazine article:26
“The findings suggest that the Marek’s vaccine
encourages more dangerous viruses to proliferate. This increased virulence
might then give the viruses the means to overcome birds’ vaccine-primed immune
responses and sicken vaccinated flocks.”
Vaccinated People Can Serve
as Breeding Ground for Mutations
Before 2021, it
was quite clear that vaccines push viruses to mutate into more dangerous
strains. The only question was, to what extent? Now all of a sudden, we’re to
believe conventional science has been wrong all along. Here’s another example:
NPR as recently as February 9, 2021, reported that “vaccines can contribute to
virus mutations.” NPR science correspondent Richard Harris noted:27
“You may have heard that bacteria can develop
resistance to antibiotics and, in a worst-case scenario, render the drugs
useless. Something similar can also happen with vaccines, though, with less
serious consequences.
This worry has arisen mostly in the debate over
whether to delay a second vaccine shot so more people can get the first shot
quickly. Paul Bieniasz, a Howard Hughes investigator at the Rockefeller
University, says that gap would leave people with only partial immunity for
longer than necessary.”
According to
Bieniasz, partially vaccinated individuals “might serve as sort of a breeding
ground for the virus to acquire new mutations.” This is the exact claim now
being attributed to unvaccinated people by those who don’t understand natural
selection.
It’s important
to realize that viruses mutate continuously and if you don’t have a sterilizing
vaccine that blocks infection completely, then the virus mutates to evade the
immune response within that person. That is one of the distinct features of the
COVID shots — they’re not designed to block infection. They allow infection to
occur and at best lessen the symptoms of that infection. As noted by Harris:28
“This evolutionary pressure is present for any
vaccine that doesn't completely block infection … Many vaccines, apparently,
including the COVID vaccines, do not completely prevent a virus from multiplying
inside someone even though these vaccines do prevent serious illness.”
In short, like
bacteria mutate and get stronger to survive the assault of antibacterial
agents, viruses can mutate in vaccinated individuals who contract the virus,
and in those, it will mutate to evade the immune system.
In an
unvaccinated person, on the other hand, the virus does not encounter the same
evolutionary pressure to mutate into something stronger. So, if SARS-CoV-2 does
end up mutating into more lethal strains, then mass vaccination is the most
likely driver.
What NFL Outbreak Can Tell
Us
As reported
August 27, 2021, by MSN,29 as players were encouraged to get the COVID
shot for everyone’s safety, separate testing rules were put into place. Players
who have gotten the jab only need to test every two weeks, while unvaccinated
players undergo daily testing.
The relaxed
testing requirement for double-jabbed players was used as incentive to go ahead
and get the shot. As reported by MSN, “Conversely, the continued daily testing
would become part of a punitive system that would make life so annoying for the
unvaccinated that they would eventually get on board.”30
Well, this
didn’t work out as planned. Nine Titans players and head coach Mike Vrabel have
now tested positive, showing it really
doesn’t matter if you’re double-jabbed or not. The infection spreads among the
vaxxed just the same. As noted by MSN:31
“The pandemic is in a phase where the unvaccinated
are facing the vengeance of a more aggressive strain of COVID-19. It's also an
era when the vaccinated are grappling with the reality that their shots are
mitigating their symptoms and medical complications, but not completely
preventing them from becoming infected or transmitting COVID to others.”
To remedy the
matter, the NFL Players Association, the union representing players of the
National Football League, is now calling for a return to daily testing of all
players, regardless of COVID jab status. Time and again, we find that
incentives fall far short of their initial promise. This has been the case for
masks as well.
First, we were
told that if we got the COVID shot, we didn’t need to wear masks anymore. Of
course, universal mask recommendations returned full force when it became
apparent that breakthrough infections were still occurring at a surprising
rate.
Now, routine
testing with a test known to produce false positives at a rate of about 97%32 is promoted again,
regardless of injection status, and there’s no reason to assume the same won’t
happen with vaccine passports. We’re promised freedom if we give up medical
autonomy, but freedom will never actually be granted. They’ll just continue to
move the goal post.
It is highly
likely, in fact even predictable, that despite its dramatic ineffectiveness,
the requirement for one or two COVID jabs will soon be turned into three, and
vaccine passport holders who don’t want to get that third shot will be back at
Square 1. They’ll be just as undesirable as those who got no shots.
Considering the
speed at which SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, you can be assured there’ll be a fourth
shot, and a fifth and, well, you get the idea. Vaccine passports and COVID jab
requirements will simply lead to a situation where you have to keep getting
additional shots or lose all your privileges.
Of course,
every single injection comes with health risks, and the risk for an adverse
event will probably get bigger and bigger with each additional shot, and you
don’t need to be a modern-day Nostradamus to see where this will lead us.
Five-Month Booster Shot Now
Under Consideration
Unfortunately,
rather than accepting reality — which is that SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, just
like any number of other common cold and influenza viruses — and stopping the
merry-go-round of injections that only make matters worse, President Biden said
he’d spoken with Dr. Anthony Fauci about giving booster shots at the five-month
mark after the initial round of injections rather than waiting eight months, as
previously suggested.33
While Fauci
quickly responded34 that eight months was still the goal, he also
said that “we are open to data as they come in” if the Food and Drug
Administration and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices determine a
sooner timeline is necessary.
Israel began
administering a third booster shot to people over the age of 60 July 30, 2021.
August 19, eligibility for a booster was expanded to include people over the
age of 40, as well as pregnant women, teachers and health care workers, even if
they’re younger than 40. Initial reports suggest the third dose has improved
protection in the over-60 group, compared to those who only got two doses of
Pfizer.35 According to Reuters:36
“Breaking down statistics from Israel's Gertner
Institute and KI Institute, ministry officials said that among people aged 60
and over, the protection against infection provided from 10 days after a third
dose was four times higher than after two doses. A third jab for over
60-year-olds offered five to six times greater protection after 10 days with
regard to serious illness and hospitalization.”
Anyone who
thinks one or more booster shots are the answer to SARS-CoV-2 is likely fooling
themselves though. I look forward with trepidation to data on hospitalization
and death rates, not to mention side effect rates, in the months to come.
Knowing what we already
know about the risks of these shots and their tendency to encourage mutations,
it seems reasonable to suspect that all we’re doing is digging ourselves an
ever-deeper, ever-wider hole that’s going to be increasingly difficult to get
out of.
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and References
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2 World
Economic Forum July 7, 2021
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3, 7 BPR
August 20, 2021
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4 David Rosenberg 7 July 13, 2021
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5 Sharylattkisson.com
August 8, 2021
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6 Sharylattkisson.com
August 6, 2021
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9, 10 The BMJ
Opinion August 23, 2021
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12 Evening
Standard August 20, 2021
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13, 14 CDC MMWR
July 30, 2021; 70
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15 CNBC July
30, 2021
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17 FEE
August 30, 2021
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19 BBC July
14, 2021
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20, 21 bioRxiv
August 23, 2021 DOI: 10.1102/2021.08.11.457114
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22 Live
Science August 6, 2021
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23 Scientific Reports July 30, 2021; 11 Article number
15729
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24, 26 Quanta Magazine Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to
Evolve
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25 PLOS Biology July 27, 2015 DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
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27, 28 NPR
February 9, 2021
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29, 30, 31 MSN
August 21, 2021
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32 Clinical
Infectious Diseases September 28, 2020; ciaa1491
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33 Twitter
Jennifer Jacobs August 27, 2021
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35, 36 Reuters
August 22, 2021
