{"id":33678,"date":"2021-06-20T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33678"},"modified":"2021-06-20T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T22:54:43","slug":"death-rate-from-variant-covid-virus-six-times-higher-for-vaccinated-than-unvaccinated-uk-health-data-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33678","title":{"rendered":"Death rate from variant COVID virus six times higher for vaccinated than unvaccinated, UK health data show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19_Delta-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 Delta Variant\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19_Delta-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19_Delta-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19_Delta.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Tom: This risk was known about and the result predicted years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>The death rate from the Delta COVID variant is six times higher among those who were fully vaccinated for two weeks or longer than among those who never received a shot, according to data published by Public Health England on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Both death rates among the unvaccinated and vaccinated are exceedingly low (less than one percent of all positive tests) for a variant that Public Health England describes as the \u201cdominant variant\u201d in the UK, comprising \u201c91 percent of sequenced cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antibody-dependent enhancement?<br \/>\n\u201cThis is reminiscent of the ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) phenomenon that has been seen for other vaccine and that has been expressed as a point of concern among many scientists for the COVID vaccines,\u201d Stephanie Seneff, a senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory told LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n<p>ADE blighted previous attempts at coronavirus vaccines and frequently resulted in enhanced lung disease among vaccinated lab animals. It led researchers in 2012 to advise scientists to proceed with \u201ccaution\u201d for any human coronavirus vaccines which could lead to enhanced lung disease.<\/p>\n<p>Seneff said research has shown that coronavirus vaccines alter the ways immune systems respond to infection and can activate other sleeping infections in the vaccinated person such as herpes virus, creating symptoms of Bell\u2019s palsy or shingles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is conceivable to me that the laser-beam specificity of the induced antibodies is offset by a general weakening of innate immunity,\u201d Seneff said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also suspect that massive vaccination campaigns may accelerate the rate at which the vaccine-resistant mutant strains become dominant among all the SARS-Co-V2 [coronavirus] strains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/death-rate-from-variant-covid-virus-six-times-higher-for-vaccinated-than-unvaccinated-uk-health-data-show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tom: This risk was known about and the result predicted years ago.) The death rate from the Delta COVID variant is six times higher among those who were fully vaccinated for two weeks or longer than among those who never received a shot, according to data published by Public Health England on Friday. Both death &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=33678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death rate from variant COVID virus six times higher for vaccinated than unvaccinated, UK health data show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33680,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions\/33680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}