Vaccinations promising devastation! Dear God. I’m beginning to believe some of the end times stuff.
Dr. Boosche: “The weapon itself is excellent. The question is is this the right kind of weapon for the war that is going on right now and there my answer is definitely no. Because these are prophylactic vaccines and prophylactic vaccines should typically not be administered to people who are exposed to high infection pressure. So don’t forget we are administering these vaccines in the heat of a pandemic.
So, in other words, while we are preparing our weapon we are fully attacked by the virus, the virus is everywhere. So that is a very different scenario from using vaccines in a setting where the vaccinee is barely or not exposed to the virus. I am saying this because if you have high infection pressure it is so easy for the virus to jump from one person to the other. So if your immune response however is just mounting as we see right now with a number of people who get the first dose, the antibodies are not fully mature or the titers are maybe not very high so the immune response is suboptimal but they are in the midst of this war while they are mounting an immune response they are fully attacked by the virus.
And every single time, I mean this is text book knowledge, you have an immune response that is suboptimal in the presence of a virus you are at risk for immune escape. And that is why I am saying that these vaccines in their own right are, of course, excellent. But to use them in the midst of a pandemic and do mass vaccinations because then you provide in a very short period of time the population with high antibody titers so the virus comes under enormous pressure. That wouldn’t matter if you can eradicate the virus, if you can prevent infection, but these vaccines don’t prevent infection...they protect against disease. We give all the time during this pandemic by our interventions the opportunity to escape the immune system and that is, of course, a very, very, very dangerous thing....especially when you realize that these guys only need 10 hours to replicate. So we think that by making new vaccines against the new infectious threats we are going to catch up...it’s impossible to catch up. I mean the virus is not going to wait until we have those vaccines ready.
We need to have a very good match or otherwise there could be resistance. Do we have a good match with our antibodies? No, at this point in time we don’t have a good match anymore because of the variant strains which differ from the original strain so they aren’t a good match anymore and hence we see people are still protected but they are already shedding the virus. So it is very clear this is driving immune escape and will ultimately drive resistance to the vaccines.