Posted on 10/05/2021 9:30:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A paper published Sept. 30 in Eurosurveillance raises questions about the legitimacy of “vaccine-generated herd immunity.”
The study cites a COVID outbreak which spread rapidly among hospital staff at an Israeli Medical Center — despite a 96% vaccination rate, use of N-95 surgical masks by patients and full personal protective equipment worn by providers.
The calculated rate of infection among all exposed patients and staff was 10.6% (16/151) for staff and 23.7% (23/97) for patients, in a population with a 96.2% vaccination rate (238 vaccinated/248 exposed individuals).
The paper noted several transmissions likely occurred between two individuals both wearing surgical masks, and in one instance using full PPE, including N-95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves.
Of the 42 cases diagnosed in the outbreak, 38 were fully vaccinated with two doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty vaccine, one had received only one vaccination and three were unvaccinated.
Of the infected, 23 were patients and 19 were staff members. The staff all recovered quickly. However, eight vaccinated patients became severely ill, six became critically ill and five of the critically ill died. The two unvaccinated patients tracked had mild COVID cases.
The authors concluded:
“This communication … challenges the assumption that high universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks … In the outbreak described here, 96.2% of the exposed population was vaccinated. Infection advanced rapidly (many cases became symptomatic within 2 days of exposure), and viral load was high.”
According to the paper, the outbreak originated from a fully vaccinated haemodialysis patient in his/her 70s who was admitted with fever and cough and placed in a room with three other patients.
The patient had not been tested for SARS-CoV-2 on admission day, because his/her symptoms were mistaken for a possible bloodstream infection exacerbating congestive heart failure.
To determine the source of the outbreak, researchers conducted phylogenetic analysis on the whole-genome SARS-CoV-2 sequences that were available for 12 cases in the outbreak, including staff and patients from Wards A, B and C and dialysis departments.
All were infected with the Delta variant and epidemiologically and phylogenetically connected to the same outbreak, except for one case. That case and three staff members were not considered part of the outbreak.
“This is a very interesting paper and it is scientifically very sound,” said Dr. Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., Children’s Health Defense chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University.
“The breakthrough rate of 96.2% of the vaccinated population shows that in this instance, the vaccine was virtually useless in preventing transmission,” Hooker said. “It should also be noted the two reported cases among unvaccinated patients were mild, whereas six of the vaccinated patients died.”
The head of BioNTech — the German company that co-developed a COVID vaccine with Pfizer — said a new formula will likely be needed by mid-2022 to protect against future mutations of the virus.
According to Bloomberg, Ugur Sahin, co-founder and CEO of BioNtech, told the Financial Times that while current COVID vaiants, such as the contagious Delta strain, were not different enough to undermine current vaccinations, new strains will emerge that can evade booster shots and the body’s immune defenses.
“This year [a different vaccine] is completely un-needed, but by mid-next year, it could be a different situation,” Sahin said. “This is a continuous evolution, and that evolution has just started.”
According to a new pre-print study submitted for peer review, Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine antibodies disappear in many by seven months.
Six months after receiving the second dose of Pfizer’s two-shot vaccine, many recipients no longer have vaccine-induced antibodies that can immediately neutralize worrisome SARS-CoV-2 variants, Reuters reported.
Researchers analyzed blood samples from 46 healthy, mostly young or middle-aged adults after receipt of the two doses and again six months after the second dose.
“Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by seven months” after the initial dose, Bali Pulendran of Stanford University and Mehul Suthar of Emory University said in an email to Reuters.
In roughly half (47%) of all subjects, neutralizing antibodies that can block infection against COVID variants, such as Delta, Beta and Mu, were undetectable at six months after the second dose, the study showed.
Neutralizing antibodies are not the immune system’s only defense against the virus. Still, they “are critically important in protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection,” said Pulendran and Suthar.
Researchers said the findings warrant administering a booster dose around six to seven months to enhance protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday he believes the “optimal regimen” of vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus will include a booster shot.
Fauci’s comments come a week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized boosters for millions of Americans, including those whose professions make them “high risk.”
Nearly 1 million Americans have already scheduled appointments to receive a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, according to the White House. Pfizer and BioNTech on Sept. 30 submitted initial data from their vaccine trial on children between 5 and 11 years old to the FDA.
The FDA’s independent vaccine advisory committee will hold three meetings in October to discuss COVID booster shots, mix-and-match boosters and vaccines for children 5 to 11 years old, the agency announced Friday.
The first two meetings, on Oct. 14 and 15, will cover booster doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccines — both of which are authorized for use in adults.
During the second meeting, the committee also will discuss data from the National Institutes of Health on the safety and efficacy of getting initial doses of one COVID vaccine and, later, a booster dose of another manufacturer’s shot, Politico reported.
The “vaccines” are working.
They are a cure for Wuhan flu hysteria, not a vaccine for the flu.
Hysteria sufferers who get the vaccine overcome their hysteria, drop their precautions and get the flu.
The success of the vaccinations is measured by the number of vaccinated who get the flu.
Since the “vaccines” can’t cure covid and they can’t protect you from catching covid, pray tell what good are they?
Perhaps to make sure you receive some spike proteins?
Creating a herd of DNA and immune system damaged mutants.
So the approved vaccine failed as well. Stop all mandates NOW.
What about fully vaccinated administration/teachers/staff exposing PreK-University children.
Typhoid Mary reincarnated.
All the vaxed are potentially unaware varriers. KEEP THEM AWAY!!!
Carriers.
The vax is a security blanket for the paranoid vaxxed ..
They needed a Bogeyman to blame for their hysteria and they found one in the unvaxxed ...
Its unreasonable but then the mentally unstable usually are so ...
Depopulation via ADE. They're great for that.
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The paper noted several transmissions likely occurred between two individuals both wearing surgical masks, and in one instance using full PPE, including N-95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves.
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When you’re dealing with a virus smaller than the wavelength of light, the only thing that will truly protect you is a full-on biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) suit running with positive air pressure.
“The breakthrough rate of 96.2% of the vaccinated population shows that in this instance, the vaccine was virtually useless in preventing transmission,” Hooker said. “It should also be noted the two reported cases among unvaccinated patients were mild, whereas six of the vaccinated patients died.”
They are a fascinating study of cognitive dissonance.
They keep some out of the hospital and help spread the disease so that it can reach the vulnerable.
It’s the “Cuomo Treatment” with more plausible deniability.
Heads up. There is a study being splashed the last couple of days showing eroding Pfizer protection from infection in 4 months, but it carefully notes protection against hospitalization AND Delta are retained.
I have examined the study. The timeframe of sampling was December 2020 to early August 2021, and samples were in California.
Delta was not even remotely dominant in early August. They say effectiveness vs Delta was retained, but I have never heard of genomic sequencing being done other than sampling population wide to get a % measure of predominance.
The way it all reads was “the timeframe included Delta”, but any Delta samples which would be VERY few for the dates of timeline, if any explicitly were sequenced at all.
In other words, the study was funded by Pfizer for the purpose of making a case for fading effectiveness justifying a booster to be sold.
It seems like a never ending cycle. Vax, which causes a mutation, and spread. Then booster for the mutation, develop a new vaxxed mutation, spread and booster for that.
How about STOP. Take the ivermectin-zinc-ionophore-D3-C and you’ll be so much healthier. We all will.
In the meantime, the vaxxes are a great tool for controlling people and a few are making a LOT of money from them, too, thanks to “In Vaxx We Trust” … or else.
Their fear-based marketing and sales plans worked well for a while, with people wanting the vaxx even more than they wanted a Pet Rock back in the day.
But when that faded, they had to offer prizes to get people to vaxx themselves and now we’re at coercion, mandates, threats and retribution for the unvaxxed.
And all of this madness for a bad, but very survivable flu?
What’s really going on here?
Gotta make room for all those illegal alien spreaders! Who will soon be rat voters! And parasites on taxpayers!
Thanks.
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