It doesnt remember much. These public commentators, often bedazzled with advanced degrees, have painted themselves as brave mavericks escaping from the mainstream herd to denounce the cataclysmic consequences of public health measures. Geert Vanden Bossche - Voice for Science & Solidarity Geert Vanden Bossche Predictions on evolution Covid 19 pandemic " I SERIOUSLY expect that a series of new highly virulent and highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) variants will now rapidly and independently emerge in highly vaccinated countries" Some of you might have seen it already published elsewhere (although this is an edited/abridged version of the original post). Such claims are generally an offshoot of another favorite antivaccine claim, namely that the diseases being vaccinated against are so innocuous that vaccinating against them is overkill and allowing infection and natural herd immunity to occur is better, a trope that has also been resurrected about COVID-19, a disease thats killed well north of 500K people in just the US in a little over a year. Amazon has encountered an error. His work and supportive advice are driven by a relentless passion to translate scientific breakthrough findings into competitive solutions to emerging challenges in public and global health. He claims that the vaccines will destroy our bodies' ability to use our innate immune system (which produces, among other things, non-specific cells capable of clearing a wide variety of infectious material from the body) to fight off the variants vaccines allegedly could not. What he is saying is that the mass vaccination campaign during a pandemic will lead to viral immune escape and far more dangerous variants emerging. Kindle Unlimited: Magazine subscriptions included. In short, if we are concerned about the virus mutating to evade vaccine protection, the solution is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and to eventually reformulate the vaccines to match variants of concern that acquire this ability. See | 71 comments on LinkedIn However, Bigtree, Coleman and others dont point out any of the red flags. A company claiming to develop such a product is currently registered to an address identified on Yelp as his veterinary practice. Geert Vanden Bossche, PhD Geert Vanden Bossche, PhD, DVM, is a vaccine research expert. Were in a race with the new variants, Sara Del Valle, a computational epidemiologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico explained in a March 2021 feature in the scientific journal Nature. However, Dr. Vincent Iannelli asked the question, Who is Geert Vanden Bossche? too and isunimpressed. This is not all that impressive, given that Snopes could only identify two patent applications in Vanden Bossche's name both for "immunologic formulations" and both of these patents, records indicate, had their "applications terminated before publication.". . Specifically, Im referring to the abuse of evolutionary theory by antivaxxers to claim that vaccines select for more deadly variants of pathogenic viruses and bacteria, making mass vaccination programs dangerous or even potentially catastrophic. Even if they dont prevent all transmissions, it looks like they can drastically cut the transmission chain and also reduce the amount of virus that can be transmitted in these cases. A BBC fact check of Vanden Bossche's claim was deemed "false" with multiple vaccine experts saying large scale vaccinations were more likely to weaken the COVID-19 virus, not cause it to mutate to to a morte lethal variant. Dr. Bossche asserts that vaccines are like antibiotics in that, when they are both overused and imperfect, they allow germs to mutate in dangerous ways. Dr. Bossche, however, seems to be a big fan of the innate immune system and he worries that all of these COVID-19 vaccines and public health measures are getting in the way of our innate immune system fighting off the coronavirus. At this point, I will also mention that, because Ed Nirenberg produced an excellent rebuttal of Dr. Vanden Bossches mangling of immunology in his letter, Ill stick more to my lane (mostly, anyway), although there will be some overlap. If you are ready to for the truth, this book will be painful but finally make sense After three years of hearing all kinds of explanations and mixed messaging, this book finally brings clarity to what's been going on. vulnerable but also in PAI subjects. The resulting type of immune response is unprecedented and licenses the host immune system to readily eliminate infection or to cure disease across a broad range of unrelated pathogens and/ or mammalian species. It appears that Vejon Health is a dormant company, if it exists at all. And its true. Where do we plant our next step? So-called leaky vaccines are vaccines that prevent disease, but do not appreciably slow transmission of the pathogen. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. (He bases this on the observation that in those infected with COVID-19 asymptomatically, S-specific Ab levels decline faster than in those with symptomatic infections.) My statements are based on nothing else but science. It won't be easy for everyone to to hear their mistakes. And if we are concerned about the anti-vaccination movement, we should wonder why they were so quick to prop up the portentous letter of an alleged pro-vaccine scientist. Geert Vanden Bossche PhD, is an internationally recognised vaccine developer having worked as the head of the Vaccine Development Office at the German Centre. Compre online The Inescapable Immune Escape Pandemic, de Vanden Bossche MD Phd, Geert na Amazon. Calculations for herd immunity consider two sources of individual immunity vaccines and natural infection. On Kindle Scribe, you can add sticky notes to take handwritten notes in supported book formats. Natural Abs are not germ-specific whereas acquired Abs are specifically directed at the invading pathogen. The latest example of this phenomenon comes in the form of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, who recently published an alarming manifesto. A vaccine shows your body an inert part of the virus so that it can make neutralizing antibodies against it. Even if it were evolving resistance, once again, the answer would be to reformulate the vaccine in order to include the altered antigens, the same conclusion made when considering the possibility that B. pertussis was evolving resistance or that evolutionary drift was leading to the predominance of strains not covered by the vaccine. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period. After all, if a human vaccine lets deadlier versions of a disease flourish, that is all the more reason to be protected from those deadly strains. See | 69 comments on LinkedIn (Indeed, thus far, it appears that this is the case.) Vanden Bossche's scientific argument in broad terms is that the current COVID-19 vaccines, through a mechanism analogous to antibiotic resistance, will create mutant variants of the virus that escape the protection of those vaccines. We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. Its here that his LinkedIn profile helps, specifically, his entry under Univac: I founded Univac as [sic] inventor of a new vaccine technology which I subsequently further developed as CSO of the Company. The classic example of a leaky vaccine is actually the one for Mareks disease, caused by a herpesvirus that infects chicken and causes lymphoma among other illnesses. The second benefit to Vanden Bossche's claim is that it places his purported invention as the miracle solution to the COVID-19 pandemic. His argument sounds a lot like an argument Andrew Wakefield once made for MMR. Its a common argument among antivaxxers that the reason were seeing more cases of pertussis in people who have been vaccinated against it is because pertussis is either evolving resistance, or because it is shifting to a different strain not covered by the vaccine. Many vaccines prevent transmission of the virus from person to person, and there is mounting evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines do as well. Nirenberg goes further and notes that the antibody titers induced by vaccines are MUCH higher than those seen after infection, and we see hallmarks of memory responses induced by these vaccines from even a single dose, suggesting that, even though there is a decrease in neutralization by vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, that might not portend a loss in protection. Naturally grifters are going to use the same arguments, although I dont see any fraud in Dr. Vanden Bossche, other than his scientifically risible arguments. Published: 23 Mar 2021. Hes also conflating innate immune responses with specific immune responses induced by either infection or vaccination. When this happens, the immune system has to rely on more specialized effectors of our immune system (i.e., antigen-specific Abs and T cells) to fight the pathogen. As a creative thinker, innovator, entrepreneur and visionary, Geert has been invited to speak at multiple international congresses. Thats antibiotic resistance. Dr. Bossches concern about imperfect vaccines allowing the virus to mutate should be dwarfed by the much larger, evidence-based worry of allowing the virus to mutate inside of unvaccinated people. A viral open letter by Geert Vanden Bossche has gone viral, and antivaxxers have been citing it as slam-dunk evidence that COVID-19 vaccination will lead to global catastrophe. You see it in each country, it's the same: in every country deaths follow vaccination," he said, as per the report. pandemic is now at risk of resultng in a global catastrophe without equal, this call cannot sound loudly . After all, as Nirenberg and the review article I quoted above note, while it is true that variants of concern demonstrate reduced antibody neutralization, we do not as yet have an absolute correlate regarding how high an antibody level is required to be protective, making the practical meaning of this observation difficult to determine. Specifically, scientists have long been pointing out that, the more we let COVID-19 circulate, the more likely virus variants that can escape the immune response to the vaccine (and/or to natural infection) are to emerge, and they use this argument as a rationale for vaccinating as many people as possible as fast as possible, in order to slow that circulation of the virus to as low a rate as possible, thus reducing the opportunities for strains resistant to the vaccine and strains able to re-infect previously infected people to emerge. Paradoxically, the only intervention that could offer a perspective to end this pandemic (other than to let it run its disastrous course) is VACCINATION. "The new variants are a production and result from the vaccination. Enjoy! Vanden Bossche is expressing an opinion not supported by biology . If the virus manages to do so, it can benefit from the (momentarily) suppressed innate immunity, thereby causing disease in an increasing number of these subjects and ensuring its own propagation. But if you have a full and overpowering army at your command, the invaders wont stick around for long. ES. It protects us from a multitude of pathogens, thereby preventing these pathogens from causing disease. Unfortunately, Dr. Vanden Bossches open letter has gone viral and is being spread on antivaccine social media everywhere as slam dunk evidence that COVID-19 vaccines will cause a global catastrophe by selecting for the evolution of highly transmissible and deadly variants of COVID-19 that will escape immunity due to vaccines. This book brings clarity, it finally makes sense why all of these variants. Geert is now primarily serving as a Biotech/Vaccine consultant while also conducting his own research on Natural Killer cell-based vaccines. Of course, the noble purpose of these Abs is to protect us against Covid-19. His academic publications essentially stop in 1995, except for one 2017 article about his natural killer cell vaccine idea published in a journal belonging to a publishing group, OMICS Group Inc, that has been called predatory and was sued by the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive practices. There is, indeed, compelling scientific evidence that these cells play a key role in facilitating complete elimination of Covid-19 at an early stage of infection in asymptomatically infected subjects. It is, as McGill's Jonathan Jarry wrote and as Yale's Omer told us, a classic example of the appeal-to-nature fallacy that invokes the primacy of natural solutions, mechanisms, or substances over those deemed unnatural and human created. By educating these cells in ways that enable them to durably recognize and target Coronavirus-infected cells, our immune system could be perfectly armed for a targeted atack to the universe of Coronaviruses prior to exposure. In general, you would have a hard time identifying any human vaccine that could be called leaky (though emerging findings regarding influenza vaccines give hints that there may be a leaky vaccine effect involved, given their excellent efficacy among children, who are critical vectors, I am not so convinced- though if we do grant that they are leaky, this only serves to undermine Bossches argument). It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. By comparison, the adaptive immune system has a memory built in. His argument is that the COVID-19 vaccine is leaky, that it does not prevent transmission, allowing the evolution of nasty variants in the absence of symptomatic disease. This is why I decided to already post a summary of my findings as well as my keynote speech at the recent Vaccine Summit in Ohio on LinkedIn. Selecciona el departamento que quieras buscar. Both men have taken an ethical stand to focus on science and not be afraid to share their expertise. ", On top of the false notion that imperfect vaccine antibodies will hamper the overall immune system on its own, Vanden Bossche claims that the prolonged lockdowns have left our innate immune system out of practice. A very similar mechanism may also apply to viruses, especially to viruses that can easily and rapidly mutate (which is, for example, the case with Coronaviruses); when the pressure exerted by the armys (read: populations) immune defense starts to threaten viral replication and transmission, the virus will take on another coat so that it can no longer be easily recognized and, therefore, attacked by the host immune system. No. Dr. Vanden Bossche has also taken to social media to air his concerns, and his message has been enthusiastically embraced by antivaxxers: Lets just say this. (I note that Dr. Vanden Bossche only set up his Twitter account two weeks ago and already has over 16K followers.) Dr. Vanden Bossche has become world famous for warning Humanity against the health danger of conducting mass vaccination programs during a pandemic. Dr. Bossches idea that the coronavirus will simply continue moving from person to person and that vaccines will only prevent severe disease is contradicted by the data that is accumulating. Access to more posts, podcasts and videos.https://patreon.com/VejonHealthLearn more about autoimmunity in COVID-19.https://mcmillanresearch.com/ Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. Geert Vanden Bossche - Expert vaccine developer (Belgium) Robert Malone MD - Inventor of mRNA vaccines (USA) Time to listen and be open to change. MASS VACCINATION of the ELDERLY. Biology is so complex. Its been accompanied by a video interview posted towhere else?antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.s Childrens Health Defense website.