Leaky vaccines
Leaky vaccines
Another main hypothesis (alongside ADE) about what’s happening now in highly-vaccinated populations, because of mass vaccination.
leaky vaccines, super-spreads, and variant acceleration: imperfect vaccines can make a virus more prevalent and more deadly. some questions on covid vaccines and their policy implications. el gato malo at Substack.
“…by turning the vaccinated into essentially perfect carriers of virus, it transformed them into a set of plague rats to infect the rest…
so what are we supposed to do now?
firstly, we need more data. we need to get much deeper into this issue of societal spread and viral amplification by the vaccinated.
the FDA and NIH need to stop playing vaccine salesman and do their actual jobs. they never looked at safety here and they never looked at long term sterilizing immunity. if they pushed a seriously leaky vaccine into hundreds of millions, blame for this new surge lies 100% at their feet.
the fact that they are not all hands on deck assessing this issue is a disgrace. there is no higher priority in medicine right now and it’s time to get the politics out of it and let the actual scientists do their jobs. this needs to be studied forensically and it needs to be done right now.
second, we need to stop claiming variants are exogenously evolving to evade vaccine and start to look at the degree to which a leaky vaccine is driving this evolution and inverting the evolutionary gradient away from milder disease and toward more severe. this claim has been a flag of convenience to shield political choices and mandates and avoid 90% of western governments from having to admit they have spent all year handing anchors to drowning swimmers. but if they have, we need to know it. yesterday…”
