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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: Secret Agent Man

Question: Do the neurological and cardiovascular problems appear more common in unvaccinated COVID-19 recovered or vaccinated?

The coronavirus has the spike protein embedded in its envelope. But in the vaccines there is no virus, just RNA encoding the spike protein. Does the translated protein contain a trans-membrane domain that allows it to insert in the vaccine recipient’s cell membrane? It seems as though it must given the high incidence of blood clots.

So is the virus less likely to cause damage because the spike protein is attached to the viral envelope instead of the host’s cell membrane?

I am asking because I don’t know.


21 posted on 07/19/2021 7:52:38 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: SeekAndFind
The cytotoxicity of the furin spike proteins in Covid-19 are documented beyond any shadow of a doubt.

We just don't yet understand all the different types of damage the proteins do different organ systems. The lies were being told about this virus are beyond belief

22 posted on 07/19/2021 7:53:36 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: SeekAndFind
"Claims that Covid Vaccine Spike Proteins are harmful are unevidenced"

Anyone who watched "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" knows that there is plenty of evidence...

23 posted on 07/19/2021 7:59:48 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only thing I can say with certainty is that until sufficient time passes “long term” effects can’t be known.
Long term is a long way out.

Everything else aside, why is it wrong for people to desire long term evidence before taking the jab? Read this very slowly......the risk from the virus (which is treatable) does not justify taking a drug which has only been tested short term. It is simply not logical to do so.

The abject hysteria by the government, and especially the left, and their desire to FORCE everyone to get the jab, regardless of their risk for the virus, is certainly sufficient for skepticism. It smells to high heaven of ulterior motives. What motives? I don’t know. But why are we now trusting the guidance of people who have zigged and zagged and lied like hell along the way for 18 months? Now they are telling the truth? WTH?


24 posted on 07/19/2021 8:02:27 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: SeekAndFind; Pollard

https://thecritic.co.uk/how-neutral-is-full-fact/

25 posted on 07/19/2021 8:07:14 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Jane Long
Collectively, our results suggest that the S protein-exerted EC damage overrides the decreased virus infectivity. This conclusion suggests that vaccination-generated antibody and/or exogenous antibody against S protein not only protects the host from SARS-CoV-2 infectivity but also inhibits S protein-imposed endothelial injury.

26 posted on 07/19/2021 8:07:29 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

You got that from the Salk paper (that was linked) that I specifically referred to?

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-novel-coronavirus-spike-protein-plays-additional-key-role-in-illness/

I looked, again, and I still don’t see it...or, any mention of the shots, at the link.

It’s getting late and my eyes might be missing it, though ;-)


27 posted on 07/19/2021 8:11:54 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Karl Spooner

👍🏼

Never go Full Fact.


28 posted on 07/19/2021 8:12:36 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: packagingguy; All

I don’t know, here are several videos i have found useful though, understanding what went on. I would suggest emailing the doctors in these videos your questions as they may be able to answer directly what you are asking.

they are not very long, all about ten minutes or less, easy to listen to, clear.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ChQwQBggc8TL/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/pZSPqlUbSdsd/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/a3PNFKamU3Np/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/GjuNzSGxL04o/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gweUd7phwvEo/


29 posted on 07/19/2021 8:13:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jane Long

It’s from the study in Circulation Review, which the Salk article has a link to.


30 posted on 07/19/2021 8:16:05 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Jane Long

I don’t think they would want to upset Biden’s Facebook with honest reporting on the ‘vaccine’. JMO


31 posted on 07/19/2021 8:16:22 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: TheElectionWasStolen

SO sorry.


32 posted on 07/19/2021 8:25:19 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Remember they did tell all of us the vax particles stayd at the injection site, they didnt go anywhere else in the body.= = =

So If I get vax in the arm, and then contract Covid, my arm will be safe?


33 posted on 07/19/2021 8:38:16 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Secret Agent Man

Thanks for putting all of those vid links in one post/spot :-)


34 posted on 07/19/2021 8:39:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Jane Long

“In actual fact, the two spike proteins behave very differently in the body. ...”

According to who?


35 posted on 07/19/2021 8:40:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: SeekAndFind

https://phoreveryoung.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/the-worst-cover-up-in-the-history-of-the-world-vaccinations-are-monkey-business/


36 posted on 07/19/2021 8:40:42 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: Secret Agent Man
Oh, that 4th link is intersting. Shows the study on HUMANIZED mice.

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Spike Protein Crosses The Blood Brain Barrier Causing Spongiform Encephalopathy - Mad Cow Disease and Alzheimer's. https://www.bitchute.com/video/GjuNzSGxL04o/

37 posted on 07/19/2021 8:41:47 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: TheElectionWasStolen

Condolences. 🙏🏻

We had a family friend ... a very healthy 70 y.o. who passed after his 1st shot.

Very sorry for your loss.


38 posted on 07/19/2021 8:42:17 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: DesertRhino

“In actual fact, the two spike proteins behave very differently in the body. ...”

According to who?


I was quoting this absurd article.

THEY, this Sarah person at “Full Fact” wrote that.

Scroll down article and you’ll see it.


39 posted on 07/19/2021 8:45:01 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: DesertRhino

but but but they have fact checkers


40 posted on 07/19/2021 8:53:30 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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