{"id":39810,"date":"2022-07-17T05:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39810"},"modified":"2022-07-17T05:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:38:38","slug":"robert-koch-institut-appears-to-agree-that-greater-natural-immunity-in-east-germany-may-be-partly-responsible-for-lower-ba-5-infections-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39810","title":{"rendered":"Robert Koch Institut appears to agree that greater natural immunity in East Germany may be partly responsible for lower BA.5 infections there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Covid_Case_Map-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"German Covid Case Map\" width=\"509\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Covid_Case_Map-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Covid_Case_Map-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/German_Covid_Case_Map.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">(Tom: Before the pandemic even took hold I recall passing on the datum that vaccinations in some cases may protect against the target illness\/infection but appear to lower the integrity of the body\u2019s immune system overall and weaken it so it is less able to defend against infection. The statistics of medical visits and illness of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children bear this out.<br \/>\nNZ study, post from 2012:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5454<\/a><br \/>\nGerman study, post from 2019:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22555<\/a><br \/>\nDr Thomas\u2019 Oregon Clinic Patient Study:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38307<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Then when the pandemic struck this effect was predicted by the medical specialists and I forwarded it again. Well done if you heeded that datum! A month or so back I saw a quote from the early 1900s where this effect was noted by a doctor. It can take a long time for truth to fight vested interests and fear led propaganda!)<\/p>\n<p>My observation that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/omicron-ba5-prefers-hypervaccinated\" rel=\"\">Omicron BA.5 seems to prefer hypervaccinated masking West Germans while avoiding the DDR<\/a>, and that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/sars-2-didnt-care-about-ddr-borders\" rel=\"\">this regional pattern first emerged in the wake of mass vaccination<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/eugyppius-in-bild\" rel=\"\">made it into BILD<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/vaxsplainers\" rel=\"\">before earning a state media debunking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_rostrich\/status\/1548312894722301955?s=21&amp;t=ekTP_LjtuS0azRIFk3nBoA\" rel=\"\">A tipster<\/a>\u00a0now points me to the latest Robert Koch Institut Corona reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rki.de\/DE\/Content\/InfAZ\/N\/Neuartiges_Coronavirus\/Situationsberichte\/Wochenbericht\/Wochenbericht_2022-07-07.pdf?__blob=publicationFile\" rel=\"\">from 7<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rki.de\/DE\/Content\/InfAZ\/N\/Neuartiges_Coronavirus\/Situationsberichte\/Wochenbericht\/Wochenbericht_2022-07-14.pdf?__blob=publicationFile\" rel=\"\">14 July<\/a>, where we find the usual colour-coded map of case incidences \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rki.de\/DE\/Content\/InfAZ\/N\/Neuartiges_Coronavirus\/Situationsberichte\/Wochenbericht\/Wochenbericht_2022-06-23.pdf?__blob=publicationFile\" rel=\"\">23 June report<\/a>\u00a0had no comment on the regional incidence patterns at all. As the East\/ West divide in infections became more obvious, their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rki.de\/DE\/Content\/InfAZ\/N\/Neuartiges_Coronavirus\/Situationsberichte\/Wochenbericht\/Wochenbericht_2022-06-30.pdf?__blob=publicationFile\" rel=\"\">30 June report<\/a>\u00a0pleaded vaguely that there could be \u201cmany causes\u201d for the phenomenon, including \u201cdifferences in testing,\u201d before finally adopting this expanded excursus.<\/p>\n<p>The infection-enhancing effects of the vaccines are increasingly obvious everywhere but still tabu for official discussion, so RKI have chosen the safer, secondary explanation: Less vaccine uptake means more natural immunity in the East, and therefore fewer infections today. The RKI too can get something right once in a while, and though it seems a small matter, it means a lot, coming as it does from Germany\u2019s foremost source of official pandemic misinformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/robert-koch-institut-appears-to-agree\">https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/robert-koch-institut-appears-to-agree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tom: Before the pandemic even took hold I recall passing on the datum that vaccinations in some cases may protect against the target illness\/infection but appear to lower the integrity of the body\u2019s immune system overall and weaken it so it is less able to defend against infection. The statistics of medical visits and illness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robert Koch Institut appears to agree that greater natural immunity in East Germany may be partly responsible for lower BA.5 infections there&#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-39810","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\/39810","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=39810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39817,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39810\/revisions\/39817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}