Posted on 04/12/2021 6:29:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Story at a glance
Researchers reviewed the positive COVID-19 test results of 800 people--400 vaccinated and the same number unvaccinated.
The South African variant was 8 times more likely to show up in the test of a person who received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The findings defied researchers initial expectations, although they concluded that given the relatively small sample size more research is needed.
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Israeli researchers found in a study released Saturday that the COVID-19 mutation first discovered in South Africa has a greater likelihood of “breaking through” the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine than other prominent variants.
The study, which was conducted by Tel Aviv University and Clalit, reviewed the test results of 800 people -- 400 of whom tested positive for the virus more than 14 days after receiving at least one vaccine dose. The other half was composed of unvaccinated individuals who also tested positive, Reuters reported. Although the South African variant made up around 1 percent of positive COVID-19 tests among the groups, it was 8 times more likely to show up in a patient who had received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The findings defied researchers initial expectations, although they concluded that given the relatively small sample size more research is needed.
“Based on patterns in the general population, we would have expected just one case of the South African variant, but we saw eight,” Prof. Adi Stern, lead research in the group, told The Times of Israel. “Obviously, this result didn’t make me happy.”
“We can say it’s less effective, but more research is needed to establish exactly how much,” Stern said.
Ran Balicer, director of research at Clalit, told the Times that this “first in the world” research shows both resilience of the South African variant and need to keep up social distancing and other preventative measures.
“These preliminary findings necessitates close continued attention to the dissemination of this strain in Israel, emphasizing the need for epidemiological monitoring and systematic sequencing, in order to contain further spread of the South African variant in Israel,” he said.
Pharmaceutical company Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks said Wednesday that booster shots designed to protect against emerging variants should be ready by the end of 2021. The National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases is working with the company.
Anthony Fauci, NIAID Director and White House chief medical advisor, said at the end of March that he is confident the vaccines available to Americans offer sufficient protection against viral mutations. Yet he noted his organization would work with Moderna to evaluate a future need for an updated shot.
“Preliminary data show that the COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the United States should provide an adequate degree of protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants,” Fauci said in a statement.
“However, out of an abundance of caution, NIAID has continued its partnership with Moderna to evaluate this variant vaccine candidate should there be a need for an updated vaccine,” Fauci said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded more than 450 cases of the B.1.351 variant.
So will the vaccine passports indicate just exactly which magic potion you took? So that when it falls out of favor you too can be denied access even though you’ve had the shot?
I believe so..................
My apologies to the OP but do we really need to read every piece of fear porn the lying media puts out? Geeze. News flash: we’re all gonna die. Eventually.
I love how the hill wrote this article, devious little bass turds.
The ones who received vaccine are 8x more likely to get varient than those not vaccinated. Stepped right over that little tidbit.
Pretty sure the increased susceptibility to new viruses among those who have been “vaccinated”, is by design...
They keep saying that word. I do not think that word means what they think it means.
This shows why Drtug Therap[y is necessary to combat Covid 10 , the vaccines are too slow in evolution.
And the drugs need to be in the hands of the public, over the counter without prescription like they are in India:
Thousands of others have already circumvented Public Health CONTROL by obtaining Ziverdo,Now we need to get hold of 15 minute tests by Abbot.
Right now we are being controlled by un-elected health bureaucrats whose job it is to frighten the public.Those who press drug therapy and freedom of individuals to treat themselves with the 15 minute Abbot test and Ziverdo for example....no one is talking about that in government .Both the test and Ziverdo should be available over the counter without prescription.
Instead we are regaled with the falsehood that we don’t want our health care system to be overwhelmed.I don’t give a crap if its overwhelmed.Neither do the public, we just want to live.
As a matter of fact the system is sure to eventually be overwhelmed by variants like the South African variant. The battle against this virus needs to have weapons in the hands of the people themselves, not metered out by a professional group of draconian jokers like Fauci
or Whitmer/Cuomo idiots.
But the rumblings are beginning. People are getting sick of living in fear without freedom. In the USA, these guys are making waves:
Dr. Pierre Kory video must see: Ivermectin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQcKdP7BQc
And in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the Health Authorities have been sent packing.The Wrath of God, LOL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHt6PXwfaos&t=114s
We are not going to put up with it much longer IMHO.
So Pfizer may not only fail to prevent...but may even accelerate...viral immune escape
It’s not like some havent been brave enough to issue warnings...
Btw, I had to claw through 2 pages of web search results debunking Geert Vanden Bossche to find a copy of his letter to WHO
PANIC!
EVERYONE PANIC!!
That is the INTENT of this article.
The CONTENT of this article is:
The findings defied researchers initial expectations, although they concluded that given the relatively SMALL sample size more research is needed.
“Based on patterns in the general population, we would have expected just one case of the South African variant, but we saw eight,” Prof. Adi Stern, lead research in the group, told The Times of Israel. “Obviously, this result didn’t make me happy.”
“We can say it’s less effective, but more research is needed to establish exactly how much,” Stern said.
Can SOMEONE/ANYONE explain what this is really saying?
From the article:
“The study, which was conducted by Tel Aviv University and Clalit, reviewed the test results of 800 people — 400 of whom tested positive for the virus more than 14 days after receiving at least one vaccine dose. The other half was composed of unvaccinated individuals who also tested positive, Reuters reported. Although the South African variant made up around 1 percent of positive COVID-19 tests among the groups, it was 8 times more likely to show up in a patient who had received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.”
When they say “tested positive” do they mean they showed symptoms of the variant COVID or just that variant COVID was detected in their bloodstream? Because as soon as I received my chicken pox vaccine the chicken pox virus would show up in my system even though I suffered no symptoms from it. It also says nothing about difference in severity of symptoms between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, which is kind of the important point because it determines whether you take up a finite resource (ICU beds) or not.
No mention of sickness but I wont bother to read the report of a retrospective observational study - the bottom of the study design quality totem pole.
Cases, cases, cases Oh My!
There’s a statistical anomaly so the need dump trucks full of flaming grant money to find out why..............
bingo
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