(Childrenâs Health Defense) â According to research published last week in Scientific Reports, vaccinated people may play a key role in helping SARS-CoV-2 variants evolve into those that evade existing COVID vaccines.
The researchers concluded three specific risk factors that favor the emergence and establishment of a vaccine-resistant strain. They are: a high probability of initial emergence of the resistant strain; high number of infected individuals; and low rate of vaccination.
However, the analysis also showed the highest risk for establishing a resistant strain occurs when a large fraction of the population has already been vaccinated but the transmission is not controlled.
Virologists have a name for variations of a virus that slip past vaccine- or illness-induced immune defenses â theyâre called âescape mutants.â
âWhen most people are vaccinated, the vaccine-resistant strain has an advantage over the original strain,â Simon Rella of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, told CNN.
âThis means the vaccine-resistant strain spreads through the population faster at a time when most people are vaccinated,â said Rella, who worked on the study.
The data is consistent with a study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which showed vaccinated people may transmit the Delta variant â now responsible for 80% of COVID cases in the U.S. â just as easily as the unvaccinated.
Health officials warn the Delta variant can âspread quicklyâ and âspike a new pandemic,â but so far, statistics donât justify another round of lockdowns or widespread vaccination of children.
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The team of scientists who published the data in Scientific Reports said their findings follow whatâs known as selective pressure â the force that drives any organism to evolve.
âGenerally, the more people are infected, the more the chances for vaccine resistance to emerge,â said Fyodor Kondrashov of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
âSo the more Delta is infectious, the more reason for concern,â Kondrashov said. âBy having a situation where you vaccinate everybody, a vaccine-resistant mutant actually gains a selective advantage.â
Experts warned for months vaccines could cause more dangerous COVID variants.
Based on the scientific evidence, the narrative that unvaccinated people are viral factories for more dangerous variants is false, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Mercola, a physician and best-selling author, said just as antibiotics breed resistance in bacteria, vaccines put evolutionary pressure on viruses to speed up mutations and create more virulent and dangerous variants.
Mercola explained:
âViruses mutate all the time, and if you have a vaccine that doesnât block infection completely, then the virus will mutate to evade the immune response within that person. That is one of the distinct features of the COVID shots â theyâre not designed to block infection. They allow infection to occur and at best lessen the symptoms of that infection.â
âIn an unvaccinated person, the virus does not encounter the same evolutionary pressure to mutate into something stronger,â Mercola added.
âSo, if SARS-CoV-2 does end up mutating into more lethal strains, then mass vaccination is the most likely driver,â he said.
According to Rob Verkerk Ph.D., founder, scientific and executive director of Alliance for Natural Health International, variants can become more virulent and transmissible, while also including immune (or vaccine) escape mutations if we continue on the vaccine treadmill â trying to develop new vaccines that outsmart the virus.
Verkerk said, âif we put all our eggsâ in the basket of vaccines that target the very part of the virus that is most subject to mutation, we place a selection pressure on the virus that favors the development of immune escape variants.
Scientists and vaccine developers are trying to work their way around these viral variants, but thereâs no guarantee of the outcomes. Itâs an experiment in which vast numbers of citizens have become unwitting participants, Verkerk explained.
In March, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, a vaccinologist who worked with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationâs Global Health Discovery team in Seattle and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization in Geneva, put out a call to the World Health Organization â supported by a 12-page document ââ describing the âuncontrollable monsterâ that global mass vaccination will create.
Vanden Bossche said:
âThere can be no doubt that continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants to become increasingly dominant and ultimately result in a dramatic incline in new cases despite enhanced vaccine coverage rates. There can be no doubt either that this situation will soon lead to complete resistance of circulating variants to the current vaccines.â
The Defender reported March 26 that a combination of lockdowns and extreme selection pressure on the virus induced by the intense global mass vaccination program might diminish the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the short-term, but ultimately, would induce the creation of more mutants of concern.
This is the result of what Vanden Bossche calls âimmune escapeâ (i.e. incomplete sterilization of the virus by the human immune system, even following vaccine administration).
This will trigger vaccine companies to further refine vaccines that will add to â not reduce â the selection pressure, producing ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants.
The selection pressure will cause greater convergence in mutations that affect the critical spike protein of the virus that is responsible for breaking through the mucosal surfaces of our airways, the route used by the virus to enter the human body, Vanden Bossche argued.
The virus will effectively outsmart the highly specific antigen-based vaccines that are being used and tweaked, dependent on the circulating variants.
This could lead to a hockey stick-like increase in serious and potentially lethal cases â in effect, an out-of-control pandemic.
âWe are going to pay a huge price for this. And Iâm becoming emotional because Iâm thinking of my children, of the younger generation. I mean, itâs just impossible what we are doing. We donât understand the pandemic,â Vanden Bossche said.
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