© UKHSAVaccine effectiveness drops as it does not allow for the omicron variant
The latest Vaccine Surveillance
report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in unadjusted vaccine effectiveness against infection (calculated from the raw infection rate data) in 18-29 year-olds, down to minus-75% in the month ending December 19th, from minus-10% the previous week.
Unadjusted vaccine effectiveness fell in all age groups this week, particularly sharply in 30-39 year-olds, where it hit minus-98%. In 40-49 year-olds it fell to minus-131%. Negative vaccine effectiveness means the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated.
A vaccine effectiveness of minus-100% means the vaccinated are twice as likely to be infected as the unvaccinated.
© UKHSAHospitalization statistics
With Omicron infections
particularly prevalent in the young and the vaccinated,
this drop is likely to be the impact of Omicron, combined with a waning of vaccine efficacy. The high relative rates of infection in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated undermine any argument for vaccine passports or mandates that depend on the idea that the vaccinated are less likely to be infected or pass on the virus.
If anything, it's the vaccinated who are a higher transmission risk to the unvaccinated rather than vice-versa.
© UKHSA
Unadjusted vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death continues to hold at a high level on this data, and has even increased in recent weeks in line with what is presumably a
booster effect - though a drop in vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation in 18-29 year-olds this week may portend a coming shift.
© UKHSASource date for charts
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Comment: Nothing that the "fringe" doctors and researchers haven't been warning about for the last year.
"A half truth is a whole lie": The omicron variant, cross-reactive immunity, and the manufactured illusion of an unprecedented virusA French virologist
spells it out:
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic "unthinkable" and a historical blunder that is "creating the variants" and leading to deaths from the disease, LifeSite News reported.
"It's an enormous mistake, isn't it? A scientific error as well as a medical error. It is an unacceptable mistake," Montagnier said in an interview translated and published by the RAIR Foundation US.
"The history books will show that because it is the vaccination that is creating the variants," the report said.
Many epidemiologists know it and are "silent" about the problem known as "antibody-dependent enhancement," Montagnier said.
"It is the antibodies produced by the virus that enable an infection to become stronger," he said in an interview with Pierre Barnerias of Hold-Up Media earlier this month.
While variants of viruses can occur naturally, Montagnier said that vaccination is driving the process. "What does the virus do? Does it die or find another solution?
"It is clear that the new variants are created by antibody-mediated selection due to the vaccination."
Vaccinating during a pandemic is "unthinkable" and is causing deaths, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine said.
Comment: Nothing that the "fringe" doctors and researchers haven't been warning about for the last year.
"A half truth is a whole lie": The omicron variant, cross-reactive immunity, and the manufactured illusion of an unprecedented virus
A French virologist spells it out: