Study: COVID Shot Enhances Delta Infectivity
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
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 Pfizers 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 Administrations 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 youre vaccinated youre 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 dont 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, its 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 Doesnt 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 theyre 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 vaccines 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 Pfizers 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 Administrations expectation for any vaccine is an efficacy rate of at least 50%.
Pfizers 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 didnt emerge until months later. This suggests the COVID shot has a very temporary effectiveness regardless of new variants.
Whats 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 were 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
COVID-19 delta variant hospital admission and death in England
80% of COVID Hospitalizations in Massachusetts Were Vaxxed 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 theres 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
Its now clear that early warnings against mass vaccination during an active outbreak are being realized. Its not the unvaccinated that are driving mutations; its 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-Mareks disease vaccine for chickens, first introduced in 1970. Today, were 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 Mareks 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 Mareks 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, were to believe conventional science has been wrong all along. Heres 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 dont understand natural selection.
Its important to realize that viruses mutate continuously and if you dont 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 theyre 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.
Poster Comment:
Chart at source.
Don't vax me, bro. It is the kiss of death.