Study:
COVID Shot Enhances Delta Infectivity
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
September 6, 2021 (1)
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
Contents
Introduction
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)
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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?”
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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)
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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)
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80% of COVID Hospitalizations in
Massachusetts Were Vaxxed
Data (#13) 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)
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 liner (#18) and the HMS Queen
Elizabeth, a British Navy flagship. (#19)
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Study Predicts Pfizer Shot Will
Enhance Delta Infectivity
A study (#20)
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.”
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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 paper (#25)
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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 responded (#34)
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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Source
and Notes
(1) Analysis
by Dr. Mercola 06-Sep-2021 (only available in the original site for
48
hours after publication date)
(2) References as quoted in the
original source:
#
1 Townhall
July 22, 2021
# 2 World
Economic Forum July 7, 2021
# 3, 7 BPR
August 20, 2021
# 4 David
Rosenberg 7 July 13, 2021
# 5 Sharylattkisson.com
August 8, 2021
# 6 Sharylattkisson.com
August 6, 2021
# 8 CNBC
July 23, 2021
# 9, 10 The
BMJ Opinion August 23, 2021
# 11 Science
August 16, 2021
# # # 12 Evening
Standard August 20, 2021
# 13, 14 CDC
MMWR July 30, 2021; 70
# 15 CNBC
July 30, 2021
# 16 NBC
News August 7, 2021
# 17 FEE
August 30, 2021
# 18 FBA
News August 9, 2021
# 19 BBC
July 14, 2021
# 20, 21 bioRxiv
August 23, 2021 DOI:
10.1102/2021.08.11.457114
# 22 Live
Science August 6, 2021
# 23 Scientific
Reports July 30, 2021; 11 Article number
15729
# 24, 26 Quanta
Magazine Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to
Evolve
# 25 PLOS
Biology July 27, 2015 DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
# 27, 28 NPR
February 9, 2021
# 29, 30, 31 MSN
August 21, 2021
# 32 Clinical
Infectious Diseases September 28, 2020;
ciaa1491
# 33 Twitter
Jennifer Jacobs August 27, 2021
# 34 Insider
August 29, 2021
# 35, 36 Reuters
August 22, 2021
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