Posted on 07/30/2021 3:33:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) - Relaxing restrictions like mask-wearing and social distancing when most people have been vaccinated greatly increases the risk of vaccine-resistant variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, new research showed on Friday.
At a time when nearly 60 percent of Europeans have received at least one vaccine dose, the authors said their modelling study showed the need to maintain non-vaccination measures until everyone is fully jabbed.
To predict how the SARS-CoV-2 virus might mutate in response to vaccination campaigns, a pan-European team of experts simulated the probability of a vaccine-resistant strain emerging in a population of 10 million people over three years.
Variables included vaccination, mutation and transmission rates -- including recurring "waves" of infections and falls in cases in response to lockdowns.
Predictably, the model showed that a rapid rate of vaccination reduced the risk of a resistant strain emerging.
But in what the authors called a "counterintuitive result", the model showed that the highest risk of resistant strains emerging came when a large proportion of the population was vaccinated, but not large enough to ensure herd immunity.
The authors said the model showed a threshold of 60 percent of the population vaccinated, after which resistant variants were more likely to occur.
"What our model showed is that when most people are vaccinated, the vaccine-resistant strain has an advantage over the original strain.
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In other news, experts predict the sun will rise in the east.
Ya gotta love how narrative supporting stories like this miraculously appear.
I read on another thread that Covid is a virus that does not easily mutate.
As if there is a self-supporting demonic intellectual economy guided by an invisible hand...
The same model experts that convinced Trump that millions of Americans would die from covid in months if he did not lockdown America
I think if you wanted to take the time to look you would find every claim imagineable being made about this Horse crap virus.
It will be whatever the manipulating jerks need it to be in then moment.
From a previous post of mine. Different vaccines have different rates of success against different strains of the WuFlu. This is from a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Astra-Zeneca vaccine is only about 67% effective against the Delta variant vs 75% against the Alpha. (“Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant”,
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891 July 21, 2021)
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