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24 April 2024
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Dr David Livermore replies to Dr Will Jones and defends his claim that the Covid vaccines had some benefit in 2021, although he thinks their misuse has also caused much harm.
The obsession with antibodies has let us down badly because there's more to the immune system than antibodies, not all antibodies protect well against respiratory infection, and some antibodies cause auto-immune attacks.
A group of experts has delved into the Pfizer trial documents released following a U.S. court order and discovered that according to Pfizer's own antibody data the vaccine efficacy in the trial was as low as zero.
Noting that boosters are “not risk-free”, the immunologist Paul Offit has written in the New England Journal of Medicine that “all age groups are at risk for the theoretical problem of an “original antigenic sin”".
A pre-print study by US Government researchers shows vaccinated people produce a less comprehensive immune system response following SARS-CoV-2 infection than unvaccinated people.
Original antigenic sin could explain why infection rates are higher among the double-vaccinated. Now the New York Times has noted that getting boosters too often may be "harmful" because of "original antigenic sin".
Infection rates in the vaccinated are now more than double those in the unvaccinated for people aged 40-79, according to the latest UKHSA data. This week there is also a startling revelation about the vaccines.
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