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Claims that Covid Vaccine Spike Proteins are harmful are unevidenced
FULL FACT ^ | 07/19/2021 | Sarah Turnnidge

Posted on 07/19/2021 7:02:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

WHAT WAS CLAIMED

The spike protein generated by a Covid-19 vaccine can leave the site of injection and enter the bloodstream, which could possibly be causing deaths and vaccine injuries.

OUR VERDICT

There is some evidence that the spike proteins generated by the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine leave the site of injection. There is also evidence that the spike protein on the actual virus can damage cells that line blood vessels. However, the two different spike proteins behave very differently in the body, and so the assumption that spike proteins generated by the vaccine could also harm cells in the bloodstream is unevidenced.

An article published by website The Conservative Woman reports on an interview with a Canadian scientist who claimed researchers had made a “big mistake” and were “inadvertently inoculating” people with a “toxin” via the Covid-19 vaccines.

In an interview with a Candian broadcaster on 28 May 2021, Dr Byram Bridle — a viral immunologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada—claimed the spike protein generated by the Covid-19 is capable of damaging the cardiovascular system.

But the claim is based on assumptions not supported by evidence.

What is the spike protein and what has it to do with vaccines?

As we have written before, there is a protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the virus which causes Covid-19), called a spike protein. This spike protein helps the virus enter cells and is also one of the ways the human body’s immune cells recognise a virus and  attack it. 

The Covid-19 vaccines approved for use in the UK work by giving the body instructions on how to make the spike protein, so that if the person is later infected, their immune system can generate a response that attacks the virus (via the spike protein) faster and more effectively.

Dr Bridle’s claims

Dr Bridle’s concern rests on two claims. Firstly, that the spike proteins generated by the vaccine cause cardiovascular damage if they get into the bloodstream. Secondly, that the spike protein produced by the vaccine does not just act locally, at the site of the jab, but gets into the bloodstream and is carried to many other sites in the body. 

Scientists who reviewed Dr Bridle’s claims for fact checker Health Feedback have described these assertions as misleading, as they “misrepresented the results from scientific studies and [were] based on cherry-picked information”. 

There have been some studies showing that SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, which line the blood vessels. One study found signs of endothelial damage and fragments of SARS-CoV-2, including the spike protein, in the brains of 13 people who had died of Covid-19. Researchers injected the spike protein into mice and found that the animals displayed neurological symptoms similar to those seen in Covid-19 patients. 

But as the Health Feedback article sets out, Dr Bridle’s claim rests on the assumption that if the viral spike protein can cause damage to the cardiovascular system, then the spike protein generated in vaccinated people should be capable of the same. 

In actual fact, the two spike proteins behave very differently in the body. According to Health Feedback, the spike proteins generated by Covid-19 vaccines differ in three key ways to those attached to SARS-CoV-2. Firstly, in the case of the vaccines, the cells mostly break down the spike proteins into fragments. Secondly, the spike protein generated by a Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t assemble into new viral particles, unlike the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2. Thirdly, the spike protein in Covid-19 vaccines is genetically modified to enhance the immune response and to stop it binding to cell receptors in the same way the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein would. 

Dr Byram’s claim that the spike protein leaves the site of the Covid-19 injection and enters the bloodstream, accumulating in other parts of the body, is based on a purportedly leaked Pfizer study carried out by Japanese researchers, which Dr Bridle said is backed up by a small study consisting of 13 participants who had received the Moderna vaccine and provided blood samples.

The study found that the spike protein was found in the blood samples of 11 out of 13 participants. The study specifically notes that “the clinical relevance of this finding is unknown and should be further explored”. Julie Bettinger, Associate Professor, University British Columbia told Health Feedback that “nothing about being detrimental is mentioned in the publication”.

American fact checking organisation PolitiFact contacted Dr Bridle directly to ask for more evidence to back up his claim that the Covid-19 vaccine spike proteins are toxins. In an automated email response he sent a document with further claims and questions about the vaccines, and said he planned to write a “comprehensive public report”. 

PolitiFact said Dr Bridle had not directly produced any evidence to back up his claim. 

Covid-19 vaccine safety 

At the time of writing, more than 40 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. To date, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has received reports of 406 UK reports of suspected adverse reactions to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 863 reports for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, four for the Moderna vaccine and 22 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified.

As we have written before, the Yellow Card system for reporting adverse events is based both on medic reports and patients self-reporting , and an adverse event that occurs after vaccination did not necessarily occur because of it.

In April the MHRA said there was a possible link between the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and incidents of rare blood clots with lowered platelets. As of 2 June, the MHRA had received Yellow Card reports of 372 cases of these specific blood clots. 

As we have recently reported, researchers in Israel have found a possible link between mild myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) in young men and getting the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

The Israeli government’s health department said there had been 275 cases of myocarditis reported between December 2020 and May 2021.



This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here.

For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as partly false because supporting evidence has not been provided for the claims the article is based on, and experts have raised concerns that the conclusions are based on false assumptions and selective use of study results.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; covid; covid19; fauxxi; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; sahilkkapur; seanhannity; spikeproteins; twitter; vaccination; vaccine
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To: SeekAndFind; Vermont Lt; BobL; Kartographer; JRandomFreeper; Tilted Irish Kilt; Jane Long; ...

Coronavirus PING!


61 posted on 07/20/2021 5:11:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see, the JAB is not to inject a weakened or inactivated virus, it is actually the result of a computer generated code uploaded by the Chinese in Jan. and given to Moderna etal to put into an injection-so that your cells in the case of the mRNA JAB would produce the S1 Spike protein synthesis(not the actual virus).

We used the Chinese data — What could go wrong??????

Hence a stimulant to produce a toxin for the secondary benefit(you hope) of building an immune response to the toxin your body is producing, whose benefit is already fading due to variants.

And a study ( January 2021. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x.pdf ) reveals that the excuse for mass JABs based on a “novel” corona virus for which no one had resistance is a LIE.

Some 81% of the population has some resistance, and their immunity will be strengthened and perfected by exposure to the illness. Provided of course if they are in otherwise good health and younger than about 50 years.

It is that nucleocapsid reactivity that provides effective resistance to serious disease. The existing JABs do not and cannot provide this since they encode only the spike.

The existing vaccines are worthless for building said perfected immunity since the data is that the nucleocapsid section, which the vaccines do not code, is where most of the pre-existing resistance against serious disease resides.

So if public health, was the true concern, we’d stop these JABs immediately, and we certainly wouldn’t be foisting them off on children and people who already had the RONA.

Now there’s another problem — and it could be very problematic:

The antibodies produced by these jabs are distinct and distinguishable from natural infection(shown in this interview related to the death of a Dr. in Tennessee.
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/investigations/i-team/memphis-doctor-believed-to-have-died-of-rare-covid-related-syndrome/522-7bb29487-c330-4de4-b1b0-188fe3865e35)

Now, all that an enemy has to do, is develop a traditional vaccine because that replicates the actual virus (and maybe they already have), and then release an agent that will kill people who have the artificial spike.

Given that the Military is generally mandated to take such JABs once approved-this seems like a big National Security risk.

And of course in the interim the many coinky dink(a new disease-not JAB related for sure) deaths and disabilities, along with the psyops of fear, and ruined economy, is simply a great softening up of your enemy.

And if the ChiComs didn’t already have the traditional Vax, and the bio-weapon to release after the military and everyone else possible has been JABBED, I’d bet they and every other enemy that hates USA is working on it.

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid - or a whole lot of traitors colluding with our enemies. JMHO.


62 posted on 07/20/2021 7:18:22 AM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Unevidenced”

I have never seen this word ever used in any context.

It was carefully chosen to try to convince the reader that the claim is false.

It is just like those articles that follow the word Trump.... “Today Trump, without evidence, said....”

If you fail to accept the evidence or you refuse to see it, it doesn’t mean there’s no evidence. It means you are willfully blind to it.

Reading beyond the headline on this article is a waste of time.


63 posted on 07/20/2021 7:26:27 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I identify as fully vaccinated. )
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To: Jane Long

Don’t let this go to your head Miss. Jane………….

Good detective work there.
Bias is bias, no matter what side it’s on.

Good job.


64 posted on 07/20/2021 7:33:49 AM PDT by David Chase (DavidHereToHelp)
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To: roving

So I assume the people in the hospital with covid after the vax are just hypochondriacs
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Will the death certificates of “rare” deaths for those people be labeled Corona Virus or Hypochondria, or what?


65 posted on 07/20/2021 7:35:37 AM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell that to the 50,000 who have died. 🙄


66 posted on 07/20/2021 7:52:50 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind

“This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook.”

LOL, posting paid Facebook propaganda now?


67 posted on 07/20/2021 10:17:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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