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Former WH COVID-19 coordinator says officials never promised vaccines would prevent infection
Former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said Wednesday that although more than half of Americans have been infected with the COVID-19 virus or vaccinated, the U.S. has still not met a herd immunity threshold to end the pandemic.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data on Tuesday showing that nearly 60% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies in their blood. The number of children with COVID-19 antibodies is even higher — almost 75% of children 11 and younger have antibodies, providing at least some protection from the virus.
Even so, CDC officials are still encouraging people to get vaccinated to increase protection against severe disease, and Birx echoed their concerns, adding that the U.S. is still far from herd immunity against the virus.
"The issue with herd immunity, we know natural infection and we know now vaccination doesn't lead to long-term protection against infection," Birx said on "America's Newsroom."
"So this isn't like measles, mumps, and rubella, where you get [the vaccine] and you're protected for a long time. We know now with this virus that natural infection and the immunity that you develop does not lead to durable long-term protection."
"The only time you could talk about herd immunity is when you know that you have durable protection," she added.
Her comments come just a day after White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the U.S. is "out of the pandemic phase," but that the U.S. will never "eradicate this virus."
Fauci told PBS NewsHour that people may need to get vaccine boosters yearly and for "longer" than they expect in order to keep virus infections low.
"That might be every year, that might be longer, in order to keep that level low. But, right now, we are not in the pandemic phase in this country," said.
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Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer suggested that the messaging from public health officials on the vaccines has been "confusing." He asked Birx if the government's messaging about the vaccines failed, noting that breakthrough infections among those who are fully vaccinated and even boosted against COVID-19 have caused people to question the efficacy of the vaccines.
Birx, who is on a media tour this week to promote her new tell-all book about her time with the Trump administration, answered that the government has failed to be fully transparent with the American people, which she says has led to distrust in public health officials and misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccines.
"In everybody's head was, 'this is like measles, mumps, and rubella,' because that's what we know. So they thought that they were superhuman and invincible once they were vaccinated," but that wasn't the case, Birx said.
"I made it very clear to the president and vice president that this vaccine was never studied to create what we call sterilizing immunity, the invincibility to never be infected again," she said. "And I think the White House understood that, and frankly we made it very clear it was never studied to do anything but protect against severe disease and hospitalization, which it's done a pretty good job about."
The record is not as clear as Birx suggests. It is true that in late 2020, before the COVID-19 vaccines were released widely, both Fauci and BIrx warned that scientists were unsure that the vaccines would prevent infection, even though they appeared to be effective against severe disease.
But at times, Fauci favorably compared the COVID-19 vaccines to other vaccinations such as the polio vaccine, which eradicated that disease. And once the vaccine rollout ramped up in February and March 2021, he touted studies that suggested vaccination slowed the spread of infections, before backtracking months later once the Delta surge demonstrated that fully vaccinated people could still have breakthrough infections.
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A recent survey of blood donations has found that more than 80% of Americans over the age of 16 have some level of immunity to COVID-19 — a figure that could have massive implications on the country's public health policy moving forward.
The survey, conducted by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also found that twice as many people have been infected by the pathogen than have been officially counted, CNN reported. As of Thursday, more than 39 million Americans have tested positive for the virus.
According to CNN, the CDC team, led by Dr. Jefferson Jones embarked on the study to "determine how close the US might be to some kind of herd immunity." Though the news outlet was sure to mention the researchers "do not claim to have any kind of handle on that yet."
They accomplished the task by testing about 1.4 million blood samples provided by 17 different blood collection organizations from all 50 states.
Upon studying the samples, the team found that between July 2020 and May 2021, the percentage of blood samples that carried SARS-CoV-2 spike antibodies increased from 3.5% to 83.3% over that time period.
Based on a sample of blood donations in the United States from July 2020 through May 2021, estimated #SARSCoV2 sero… https://t.co/OyWffTBmRL
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) 1630598403.0
The researchers highlighted the prominent role widespread vaccine efforts have played in raising the percentage. Though they also noted that prior infection provides similar protection against the virus.
"Several large studies have shown that among individuals who are seropositive from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 incidence is reduced by 80% to 95%, similar to vaccine efficacy estimates," they wrote.
The researchers acknowledged their study has "several limitations," however, including that all of the testing occurred prior to the Delta variant's full emergence in the U.S.
Of note, a recent study out of Israel found that unvaccinated individuals with prior infection were 13 times less likely to contract the Delta variant than vaccinated individuals without prior infection.
Likewise, the study focused only on the presence of antibodies in the blood samples and didn't measure other immune responses, including those involving memory T-cells.
"Additional research is needed on the association between combined seroprevalence, protection, and herd immunity," the researchers wrote.
"The study will continue until at least December 2021, and results will be made available on the CDC's website," they added.
Neurologist explains why unvaccinated previously infected people are less likely to spread COVID than never-infected vaccinated people
Americans have received countless mixed messages about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, natural immunity, herd immunity, and virus transmission. Dr. Michael Segal, a neurologist and neuroscientist, wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal attempting to clear up some misconceptions about how immunity works when it comes to the vaccines and natural immunity.
And he reached a conclusion that should pique the interest of millions of Americans — as well as policymakers: People who have had COVID-19 and recovered should not be required to get the vaccine, because they are less likely to spread the virus than vaccinated people who have never been infected.
What's that now?
Segal began his piece with a question that has been in the minds of many Americans confused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vacillating guidelines: "Vaccinated people are supposed to resume wearing masks, lest they contract and spread the virus. Yet unvaccinated people are still strongly urged to get the shots, which are said to be highly effective. How can both these claims be true?"
The truth is "there's more than one kind of immunity," Segal said.
First, he noted, there's "internal immunity," which, according to Segal, "protects the inside of the body, including the lungs" and "occurs by release of antibodies of the Immunoglobulin G type, or IgG, into the blood and production of T-cells."
Vaccine shots "are highly effective" at stimulating this type of immunity, Segal said, which "largely protects vaccinated people from being overwhelmed by the coronavirus, unless they have an immunodeficiency or are exposed to an unusually large amount of the virus."
The second immunity Segal cited was "mucosal immunity," which is a defense line that protects the nose and mouth, and thereby decreases the likelihood of spreading to others. This is an immunity, Segal explained, that is not normally obtained via vaccinations:
The mucous membranes secrete a particular form of antibodies of the Immunoglobulin A type, or IgA. But vaccines injected into our muscles—including all the approved inoculations against Covid—are largely ineffective at stimulating the secretion of IgA into our noses that occurs after actual infection with a virus. As a result, vaccinated people can contract a Covid-19 infection confined to the mucous membranes. They may get the sniffles but can spread the virus to others even if they are asymptomatic.
This fact, Segal pointed out, "has implications for public-health authorities' determination to achieve herd immunity through vaccination alone."
While the world waits for nasal spray vaccinations, he continued, "herd immunity may prove difficult to achieve unless more people get infected and develop natural immunity of both types."
But naturally, that's a problem, he continued, writing, "Given the dangers of infection, officials are rightly reluctant to encourage actual infection, and loath to mention its benefit in conferring mucosal immunity."
So what should people make of this?
Segal has answer: Don't "shun" the previously infected.
If vaccines are going to be mandated, make exceptions for those who have recovered from COVID-19, since their "natural mucosal immunity" puts them "at less risk than never-infected vaccinated people of spreading the virus to others."
Horowitz: As the CDC rushes to experiment on children, its own data show K-12 likely have herd immunity
Nearly 42% of Americans ages 5-17 — roughly overlapping with the ages of K-12 schoolchildren — have already been infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to CDC's best estimate. That observation, culled from CDC's "Estimated rates of COVID-19 disease outcomes, per 100,000" by my friend Phil Kerpen, has earth-shattering implications that refute the premise behind the CDC's continued panic over children and COVID, as well as the rush to vaccinate them despite the unknown risks.
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices planned to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the emerging evidence of myocarditis cases among newly vaccinated teens and young adults. However, the "emergency" had to be pushed off by the retroactive holiday of "Juneteenth," itself celebrated on Saturday. In the meantime, it's totally fine to continue to vaccinating teens — in many places, requiring it — without further study, despite the fact that they likely have already achieved herd immunity. This comes even as the World Health Organization has taken the position that "Children should not be vaccinated for the moment."
We've already known that this virus is less of a threat to children than the flu. However, the latest data from the CDC show that even this mild virus (for children) is already in the rearview mirror, making the entire debate over current policy moot.
About 42% of the K-12 population had already recovered from COVID by the end of March, per CDC best estimate. That… https://t.co/tAzGAFgDNH
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) 1623982847.0
The CDC's best estimate of infections per 100,000 by the end of March is that 5- to 17-year-olds have had the highest rate of infection per 100,000. If you do the math, that adds up to 41.532%. This is earth-shattering for several reasons.
We know from most places in the country, including the Los Angeles area, that the virus essentially became extinct when they reached the 40% infection mark. The virus seemed to wane in almost every part of the country when serology tests showed about 40% with antibodies, and if the CDC is estimating that school-age children had an even slightly higher rate, it means they are certainly immune without the vaccine. In other words, not only is the virus not serious enough to experiment with a new vaccine for children, it has likely passed.
Moreover, if 42% of school-age children have already gotten the virus, despite the child abuse regimen of masking, isolation, and testing we've foisted upon them, what does that tell you about the efficacy of those voodoo "non-pharmaceutical interventions"? Many local governments are requiring children to wear masks until they get vaccinated, but clearly masks have not prevented the inevitable.
It was clear from day one that the virus had long spread throughout the country before we even recognized it. The CDC's own research on mitigating the spread of flu indicates that "the effectiveness of pandemic mitigation strategies will erode rapidly as the cumulative illness rate prior to implementation climbs above 1 percent of the population in an affected area."
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that "a National Institutes of Health research program identified seven people in states from Mississippi to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania who were infected with the new virus days or weeks before the first cases were confirmed in their areas." Thus, even if these mitigation strategies somehow work under the right circumstances, in the U.S., those horses already left the barn. Yet, here we are with over 40% already infected and we are still acting as if non-pharmaceutical interventions can prevent the spread.
Sadly, while children have already achieved herd immunity to this inconsequential virus, the mental health problems, as well as side effects from the experimental mRNA shots, will continue indefinitely. Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, is reporting an 80% increase in mental health-related pediatric visits to its emergency department this past year and three times the number of 8- to 18-year-old patient admissions for suicide attempts.
There is no herd immunity threshold for this problem because the senseless child abuse is continuing. My son recently ran across boys on a playground wearing masks outside in Maryland's oppressively humid climate. When he told them they don't have to wear them, they were shocked. Clearly, the parents couldn't care less about their own children, and it's all coming from the government and the media.
Now, ignorant parents are being led by a maleficent government to expand the mask abuse to experimental gene therapy. Just consider the insanity of requiring vaccines for children. According to the latest data from the CDC's VEARS, a 12- to 15-year-old male is eight times more likely to suffer from myocarditis after the second Pfizer shot than from the virus itself.
1/ Per VAERS update today, & CDC’s Covid Net via data analyst @JeanRees10: At PRESENT, “Hospitalization for myocar… https://t.co/noYCLkYSTt
— Andrew Bostom, MD, MS (@andrewbostom) 1624032284.0
According to VEARS, there are now more reported cases of chest pain resulting from the new COVID shots in just six months than from all other vaccines combined for all years.
@Autumnlilyx1 For "chest pain" (the other main presenting symptom of myocarditis) the figures are:All vaccines ev… https://t.co/RZIpdiE97n
— Jonathan Engler 🌸 (@jengleruk) 1624272187.0
To paraphrase John Kerry on the Vietnam War, how can you ask a child to be the last child to die for a lie?
Johns Hopkins professor says 'ignore the CDC' — 'natural immunity works'
A professor at the renowned Johns Hopkins School of Medicine advised Americans recently to "ignore" guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention due to the public health agency's puzzling refusal to recognize natural immunity from previous infection.
What are the details?
Dr. Marty Makary, who also serves as a professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, suggested during a Tuesday appearance on "The Vince Coglianese Show" that 150 million Americans, or "half the country," likely already have natural immunity to COVID-19 due to having been infected with the virus and then recovering.
Yet despite that staggering figure, Makary lamented the fact that the CDC, in concert with Biden administration officials, have neglected to recognize the reality of the situation. Instead, previously infected individuals who decline being vaccinated are routinely "demonized" by health officials who insist that virtually all Americans must be vaccinated before normal life can resume.
But "herd immunity" has already been reached, argued Makary, citing up-to-date vaccination and infection data to suggest that 80% to 85% of Americans are currently protected from the virus.
"I never thought I'd say this, but please ignore the CDC guidance," Makary stated, advising Americans to "live a normal life, unless you are unvaccinated and did not have the infection, in which case you need to be careful."
Makary called the the CDC's outright dismissal of natural immunity "one of the biggest failures of our current medical leadership" as Coglianese pointed out that the CDC amazingly offers no guidance for individuals who have recovered from COVID-19, in regard to what they can safely do.
"Natural immunity works," he argued. "We've got to start respecting individuals who choose not to get the vaccine, instead of demonizing them.
"There is more data on natural immunity than there is on vaccinated immunity, because natural immunity has been around longer," he continued, noting that both vaccination and previous infection likely provide "lifelong" immunity from the virus.
He added that reinfection is extremely "rare," and even when it does happen, the "symptoms are mild or [those individuals] are asymptomatic."
Anything else?
For months, Makary has been a consistent voice of reason, sounding the alarm on misinformation coming from progressive media as well as what he calls the "most slow, reactionary, political CDC in American history."
Earlier this year, he derided the CDC's "absurdly restrictive" guidance that permitted fully vaccinated people to mingle indoors with some other people without masks or social distancing, calling the agency "paralyzed by fear."
Then in May, Makary chastised media and health expert doomsayers for "fearmongering" even as the pandemic was waning by telling Americans that herd immunity may not be reached for a long time to come.
(H/T: Daily Caller)
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