Covid Infection Rates Higher Among the Vaccinated By Chris Knight (Florida)
Covid infections are growing among the vaccinated, so the idea that what we are seeing across the globe is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” does not ring true to the facts, which is not to say that unvaccinated are not getting infected as well. For example, according to the Public Health England data, for the 60s age cohort, the infection rates are now 63% higher among the vaccinated than unvaccinated, up from 53% from last week's report. As well, there was a recent outbreak of the virus in an Israeli hospital where 39 of the 42 patients, staff, and family members infected were fully vaccinated. This is discussed by a research paper reference below. “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.” Hence, the proposition that high universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks is false.
“The idea of mandating the vaccine to protect other people is built upon a complete lie.
Whatever side of the vaccine debate you may find yourself on, it is clear that none of us predicted cases would grow exponentially a year later, when most adults are vaccinated and there is so much more built-up immunity. The evidence that cases are growing among the vaccinated is too compelling to ignore and makes the entire push for vaccination, and certainly for mandated shots, completely unmoored from reality. Isn't it about time we start asking questions about the consequences of a leaky vaccine?
It's time to stop calling infections among the vaccinated "breakthrough" cases. In fact, The U.K., which posts the most comprehensive granular weekly data every Thursday, shows that COVID cases per capita are more common among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated in most age groups.
As you can see, the vaccinated have more cases per capita in nearly all age groups except for those under 30. The only logical explanation is that the youngest cohorts were vaccinated most recently, when there might still be some degree of efficacy from the vaccine. Which is why, even among the young cohorts, the cases among the vaccinated are higher among those vaccinated earlier. What this clearly means is that its protection wears off after a few months, especially for those who need it the most. According to the Public Health England data, for the 60s age cohort, the infection rates are now 63% higher among the vaccinated than unvaccinated, up from 53% in last week's report.
Thus, any discussion of vaccine passports and mandates is completely contrary to reality. Not only do the vaccinated spread the virus, they might be doing so at greater levels. Whether the shots offer some protection against severe illness for a few extra months is still unclear, given that hospitalization rates are skyrocketing among the vaccinated, but either way, that is a personal decision whether one wants to assume the risks to achieve some lighter symptoms. The notion that unvaccinated health care workers with stronger immunity from prior infection are a greater threat to patients than those without prior immunity who are vaccinated is absurd. This point is underscored by a recent outbreak of the virus in an Israeli hospital where 39 of the 42 patients, staff, and family members infected were fully vaccinated.
At this point, it is impossible to overlook the absolute failure of this vaccine to achieve its stated goal. There were dramatically more deaths this August than last August, something that makes zero sense given the high vaccination rates. The few unvaccinated people can't be responsible for a worse outcome than when nobody was vaccinated.
We are seeing these examples all over the world, not just here and in Israel.
With 92% of adults vaccinated, Wales is experiencing the worst outcome ever:
Data show that 63% of the COVID deaths over the past 7.5 months in England were among those vaccinated:
And here is ground zero for COVID fascism: Australia:
How come nobody wants to inquire why things are worse now than ever and whether, perhaps, the leaky vaccine itself is the culprit?
For those unfamiliar with leaky vaccine syndrome, read this important 2015 PBS article about the leaky chicken vaccine for Marek's disease. The article explains how a leaky chicken vaccine was able to make this devastating virus among chickens both more transmissible and more virulent, bucking the micro-evolutionary phenomenon that forces the two factors to work inversely.
In a second experiment, unvaccinated and vaccinated chickens were infected with one of the five Marek's disease strains, and then put into a second arena with a second set of unimmunized birds, known as sentinels. In particular, the team was interested in a middle-of-the-road strain called "595" and whether it would become hotter.
It did. The virus spread to sentinel birds nine days faster if it came from a vaccinated chicken versus an unvaccinated one. In addition, sentinels died faster when exposed to vaccinated chickens versus unvaccinated chickens.
The article explains how a leaky vaccine that only ameliorates symptoms for the vaccinated chickens allows the virus to become more virulent and spread more widely in live hosts. In the case of the Marek's disease vaccine, it devastated all of the unvaccinated chickens. This is exactly what we saw in the American South around July, about six months into the vaccination program, the time when Israeli studies have shown the COVID vaccine (at least Pfizer) begins to leak. Then, as time progressed, even the protection from serious illness among the vaccinated began to wear off, which is why Big Pharma and the media are now pushing the boosters. But why is nobody asking the obvious question: Will endless boosters will continue to perpetuate a cycle of viral immune escape, as great vaccinologists like Geert Vanden Bossche warned about earlier this year?
In the 2015 PBS article, the author ominously warns that if we ever were concerned that such a leaky vaccine phenomenon would occur in human vaccines, the following question would be the first indicator: "Does the vaccine merely reduce symptoms, or does it also keep patients from getting infected and transmitting the virus?"
Well, that is exactly the way they are now selling the vaccine – that it only helps against some symptoms – and not coincidentally, the spread is worse than ever before! Take Florida, for example: With a very high senior vaccination rate, especially in places like Miami, it had a 94% increase in deaths this August over last August.
What we have been experiencing since July is exactly the nightmare of the leaky chicken vaccine for Marek's disease. And that is one of the many reasons why we have never successfully developed a coronavirus vaccine. A 2003 experimental observation of SARS vaccine development presciently advised, "Application of a SARS vaccine is perhaps best limited to a minimal number of targeted individuals who can be monitored, as some vaccinated persons might, if infected by SARS coronavirus, become asymptomatic excretors of virus, thereby posing a risk to non-vaccinated people."
Well, here we are today with a mass coronavirus vaccine campaign nobody in a previous generation could have imagined, and we have worse spread from the vaccinated than before the vaccination campaign. We are experiencing the exact opposite of the false premise used by pro-mandate politicians; namely, it's the vaccinated endangering others.
Why is nobody asking the two most salient questions: 1) If the vaccine is leaking this much on transmission, why is there no concern that it is also the culprit for making the virus more virulent? 2) If it leaks this much on transmission, who is to say any degree of efficacy against serious illness, which is already waning, won't diminish completely?
As they push booster shots, and in Israel are mandating them, this is the subtle reason for why Big Pharma and the media are now pushing their magical expensive therapeutics. Pfizer is touting a drug in development, and Merck is already requesting emergency use authorization for molnupiravir, a drug with no safety profile.
Pfizer has been advertising a "need" for a therapeutic while Twitter promotes it as a paid ad, despite the massive conflict of interest.
Over the weekend, former FDA administrator and chief spokesman for Big Pharma Scott Gottlieb said on CNBC, "Once we start vaccinating our children, and once we have an anti-viral in hand I think society and psychology around this disease will change." Notice he added in the anti-viral to the equation?
But why would we need therapeutics if the vaccines are not only working but are so unassailable that they must be mandated? And if they lied to us about the efficacy and safety of the vaccines and remdesivir, why would we trust them with their new therapeutics over other long-standing effective and safe off-patent drugs? Indeed, science in this era is all about $cience.”
“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.”
BioNTech CEO says new COVID vaccine will be needed in 2022
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.’
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822
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