COVID vaccines fail spectacularly

Safety questions aside, the track record of effectiveness of COVID vaccines, compared with natural immunity, is turning out to be abysmal.

Israel is the earliest and one of the most heavily vaccinated countries.  Let’s observe the weeks and months following the surge of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine dosing there.  You may remember that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a contract with Pfizer that placed Israeli adults - of all the world’s people - into a clinical experiment of Pfizer’s design.  This happened in flagrant violation of the Nuremberg Code and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which require the fully informed and un-coerced consent of the individual for medical experiments. 

As a result of that mass vaccination campaign, as of this week, 62.1% of all Israeli citizens, and approximately 85% of Israeli adults, have been “fully” vaccinated against COVID. [1]  Most of these vaccinations by far occurred from January to April 2021, which now leaves four months of hindsight since then to assess the impacts.

In the largest real-world observational study to date, comparing those with previous COVID infection (any time from March 2020 to February 2021) to those vaccinated persons who had never been infected with COVID or its variants (“naïve vaccinees”), the naïve vaccinees were 13 times as likely to have increased risk of breakthrough infection than their naturally infected counterparts.  [2]   Even more stark contrast was found with two symptomatic groups:  Symptomatic “breakthrough infections” in vaccinated individuals were 27 times the rate of symptomatic re-infections of those previously infected. 

27 times.  That’s the factor by which you increase your risk of symptomatic COVID infection by getting vaccinated for COVID, rather than having had prior COVID infection, according to the data from Israel.

These findings imply that the COVID vaccines administered in early 2021 already correlate with much higher risk of COVID infection by the end date of this study, August 14 2021.  The original SARS-CoV-2 virus and its Delta variant seem to make little difference in vaccine effectiveness.  [3]  This finding may explain the surge in post-vaccination COVID infections being seen in the earliest-vaccinating countries around the world, such as this fulminant, hyperbolic curve of Israeli infectious cases from Our World In Data.  [4]

So given this data showing vaccine failure in half a year, how is it that the news media get to claim that the world is suffering from “a pandemic of the unvaccinated”? 

There has been a little-scrutinized change in the definition of “unvaccinated” now promulgated by the CDC and the hospitals and journalists who sing with that chorus.  The CDC has recently defined “unvaccinated” as those individuals who have completed less than two weeks since their first COVID vaccine dose.  “Persons were considered . . . unvaccinated < 14 days after receipt of the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine . . . .”  [5]

As a result of the Orwellian Newspeak, you could have a vaccine, have a heart attack and die, all within two weeks, and you would be labelled “unvaccinated.”  Therefore, any acute injuries, hospitalizations and deaths closely following COVID vaccination are unlikely to be recorded and reported as such, except for honest and diligent reports to VAERS. 

And the truly unvaccinated get blamed for these vaccine injuries and deaths.

Even more amazingly, an Oxford University study has found that vaccinated healthcare workers have 251 times the viral load in the nasopharynx, when compared to their never vaccinated co-workers who were infected in 2020.  [6]  Those infected in 2020 were possibly of a different strain of virus.  They also found that the healthcare workers, who had been vaccinated with the Oxford/Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine harbored and possibly transmitted the Delta variant to their vaccinated co-workers.

Are such high rates of COVID viral load confined only to the vaccinated, or is this being transmitted also to others, including the vulnerable and immune-compromised?

[1] Our World In Data.  Aug 28 2021.  https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination-israel-impact

[2] S Gazit, R Shlezinger, et al.  Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity; reinfections versus breakthrough infections.  Preprint on MedRxiv.  Aug 24 2021.  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full-text

[3] J Bernal, N Andrews, et al.  Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant.  NEJM.  Aug 12 2021.  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891

[4]   E Mathieu, H Ritchie. Vaccinations and COVID-19.  Data for Israel.  Our World In Data.  Updated Aug 25 2021. https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination-israel-impact

[5] J Griffin, M Haddix et al.  SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalizations among persons aged > 16 years, by vaccination status – Los Angeles, County, California, May 1 – July 25, 2021.  MMWR.  CDC.  https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7034e5-H.pdf

[6] N Chau, N Ngoc, et al..  Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among vaccinated healthcare workers, Vietnam.  Aug 10 2021.  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733 and full paper at: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=597095116095089030073022064096077002095063056052064082108035120100047031001111022001094105098003017114025017109077124027122124086085116025024111064083023018089122006109053090049118073047096062112016120023058029095020093093002123110101087071121116083084029092068068089025024112006002099064105&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE