What the failure of boosters is telling us about the whole vaccine program
So both the European regulators and the WHO are now warning against repeated booster shots:
“European Union regulators warned that frequent Covid-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible.
Repeat booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune response and tire out people, according to the European Medicines Agency” (1) (Bloomberg)
Then Reuters:
Jan 11 (Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator on Tuesday expressed doubts about the need for a fourth booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine and said there is currently no data to support this approach as it seeks more data on the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
"While use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy," the European Medicines Agency's Head of Vaccines Strategy, Marco Cavaleri, told a media briefing.
The EMA official raised concerns that a strategy of giving boosters every four months hypothetically poses the risk of overloading people's immune systems and leading to fatigue in the population.
Cavaleri also said more data on the impact of the new variant on vaccines and a better understanding of the evolution of the current wave were needed to decide whether an Omicron-specific vaccine was needed.
And here is the WHO Jan 11th statement:
So now, with vaccine effectiveness falling into negative territory, the WHO seems to be “hoping” the current vaccines do something to mitigate “the emergence and impact of new VOC’s” and are “encouraging vaccine developers to gather data on ..the breadth and magnitude immune response” for what must be a hoped for, and new “monovalent and multivalent vaccines against VOCs”
Hasn’t anyone told them that when you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging.
Dr Geert Vanden Bossche has penned a second open letter to the WHO (2), begging them to stop the vaccine rollout now. He argues that we have a historic opportunity being delivered to us through Omicron. That the failure of the vaccine antibodies to stop Omicron has allowed the vaccinated (and unvaccinated) an opportunity to develop a robust immunity which is able to stop infection and transmission through a reset of their innate immune system.
Dr Vanden Bossche also warns: “And we know that industry is already gearing up for mass vaccination against Omicron. And, as this, according to my humble opinion, could potentially be - with a high likelihood - a real disaster. We must prevent such a thing from happening.” he says as it is setting up a real danger of “a situation is in fact, a textbook example, for how you provoke antibody-dependent enhancement of the disease”
Then you have the parting thoughts of the 2 senior FDA officials who resigned in the lead up to the meetings on boosters:
They note :
“there could be risks if boosters are widely introduced too soon, or too frequently, especially with vaccines that can have immune-mediated side-effects (such as myocarditis, which is more common after the second dose of some mRNA vaccines, or Guillain-Barre syndrome, which has been associated with adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccines. If unnecessary boosting causes significant adverse reactions, there could be implications for vaccine acceptance that go beyond COVID-19 vaccines. Thus, widespread boosting should be undertaken only if there is clear evidence that it is appropriate.” (3)
I think that’s quite a clear message as well .….get this wrong and it won’t be just COVID-19 vaccine acceptance affected, but ALL vaccines.
Finally, Dr Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr Arne Burhardt penned an article :
“On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination” (4)
They explain quite correctly: “Vaccines that are injected into the muscle – i.e., the interior of the body – will only induce IgG and circulating IgA, not secretory IgA. Such antibodies cannot and will not effectively protect the mucous membranes from infection by SARS-CoV-2. Thus, the currently observed “breakthrough infections” among vaccinated individuals merely confirm the fundamental design flaws of the vaccines.”
In this context, maybe the highly infectious Omicron should be seen as a kind of live attenuated viral vaccine … it will generate the much needed secretory IgA, introduced to the immune system via the mucosa rather than the needle .. you know, how it’s been dealing with respiratory viruses for millions of years.
(1) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says
(2) https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/videos-and-interviews/second-call-to-who-please-dont-vaccinate-against-omicron
(3) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02046-8/fulltext
(4) https://doctors4covidethics.org/on-covid-vaccines
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