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AstraZeneca Vaccine Developer: COVID Herd Immunity ‘Not a Possibility,’ Believes Virus Will Become Seasonal
Epoch Times ^ | 08/11/2021 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 08/11/2021 9:56:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The director of the Oxford Vaccine Group said that because of the Delta COVID-19 variant, herd immunity is “not a possibility.”

“I think we are in a situation here with this current variant where herd immunity is not a possibility because it still infects vaccinated individuals,” professor Andrew Pollard, the director, told the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tuesday, according to ITV.

Pollard said he believes the virus “will throw up next is a variant which is perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations,” adding that it is “even more of a reason not to be making a vaccine program around herd immunity.”

Claiming that there is nothing the UK can do to “stop the emergence of new variants,” Pollard said “they’re going to happen” sooner or later.

“And if anything we need to focus now not on what might stop new variants because I don’t think we have any facility to control that,” he said. “We need to focus on thinking about how do we prevent people dying or going to hospital.”

In an interview with the BBC, Pollard said COVID-19 likely will become an endemic or a seasonal illness, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is a disease that is ever-present in a population, such as influenza or chickenpox.

“I think it is a pretty distant prospect and we need to get used to the concept that this will become what we call an endemic disease rather than a pandemic disease,” he remarked. “A disease that is with us all the time—probably transmits seasonally a bit like influenza where we see winter outbreaks.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: astrazeneca; bigpharma; covid; herdimmunity
The Oxford Vaccine Group, which Pollard directs, is a vaccine research group within the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford. Oxford partnered with major pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca to create one of the world’s most common COVID-19 vaccines.

While he said current vaccines may slow the spread of the Delta variant, which was first reported in India, people should simply expect to live with COVID-19.

1 posted on 08/11/2021 9:56:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like a pretty good deal if you are in the business of making vaccines and have governments willing to mandate that people take them.


2 posted on 08/11/2021 9:59:40 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: SeekAndFind

Basically, he said what I’ve been saying all along. COVID is never gonna go away, it will become more transmissible but less deadly like most viruses.


3 posted on 08/11/2021 10:00:03 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

This would be true even if there was a perfect vaccine, as multiple animal reservoirs exist.

Zero covid is impossible for that reason alone.


4 posted on 08/11/2021 10:00:06 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Two weeks to flatten the curve. F*cking bastards!


5 posted on 08/11/2021 10:00:07 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Exactly, and nothing besides this.


6 posted on 08/11/2021 10:19:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: CatOwner

Bastards indeed. This is about interminable control, not about a virus.


7 posted on 08/11/2021 10:21:57 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SeekAndFind

i will seasonally not be taking their death shots

i dont with tge flu either, and never get it

i take so much immune system supplements and vitamins, i do not get sick

plus i do infrared saunas to periodically cook off anything bad


8 posted on 08/11/2021 10:41:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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> COVID Herd Immunity ‘Not a Possibility,’ Believes Virus Will Become Seasonal

But gain of function research is worth it. Thanks, Fauci.


9 posted on 08/11/2021 10:53:38 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“I think we are in a situation here with this current variant where herd immunity is not a possibility because it still infects vaccinated individuals,

Did he take any biology courses in college? That isn't what "herd immunity" means. What he purposely omits is that people who HAD Covid and recovered are not being infected with the "delta" variant, nor being hospitalized. What Sweden did -- no lockdowns or masks, free mingling of people in public, is what creates herd immunity.

10 posted on 08/11/2021 11:19:55 PM PDT by montag813
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Big Pharma has big bills and a big payroll, so vax revenue matters — VRM


11 posted on 08/11/2021 11:41:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Singapore has already stated this as their future way of dealing with covid.

Virus’/illnesses are way of culling the old and weak. You would think governments would be happy to be able to offload future pension/medical costs but no future control is a higher priority for them.


12 posted on 08/12/2021 1:46:19 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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13 posted on 08/12/2021 3:24:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: montag813

Exactly.

Mandating the mRNA jab is pointless.


14 posted on 08/12/2021 3:26:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

The developer of the MRNA says herd immunity can NEVER be a result of the MRNA experimental shot.

If immunity could be reached, it would only be through a traditional type of vaccine or no vaccine at all. (in other words, by letting the population get covid and then get natural immunity)


15 posted on 08/12/2021 3:38:33 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s like a mob boss telling a frightened shopkeeper, “You are going to have to keep paying protection or your kneecaps are going to have to be broken, for starters “


16 posted on 08/12/2021 3:56:53 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

SARS-CoV-2 invented in a lab and patented becomes seasonal? In a sane day, wouldn’t this be considered ADE?


17 posted on 08/12/2021 6:25:41 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

ELECTION SEASONAL is all!


18 posted on 08/12/2021 8:48:56 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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