{"id":58520,"date":"2025-02-20T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58520"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:18:24","slug":"yale-researchers-have-found-immune-system-exhaustion-and-prolonged-spike-protein-production-in-some-covid-jab-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58520","title":{"rendered":"Yale researchers have found immune system exhaustion and prolonged spike protein production in some Covid jab recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another take on the same survey. Alex Berenson writes:<\/p>\n<p>This is bad news. Very bad.<\/p>\n<p>A Yale University team led by a top immunologist has found that some people who received the Covid vaccines have damage to their immune systems, as well as high and rising levels of spike protein in their blood. The researchers released the findings Wednesday in a \u201cpreprint\u201d and hope to publish it soon in a peer-reviewed journal.<\/p>\n<p>How often these problems occur or if the immune system damage might open people to infections is unclear as yet. But immune system damage the researchers found is similar though not identical to changes caused by HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, that can eventually lead to AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>(Summary: it\u2019s not AIDS, but it\u2019s not good either.)<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found Covid spike protein \u2014 the protein mRNA Covid jabs from Pfizer and Moderna cause our cells to make \u2014 in the blood of patients up to two years after vaccination. I first wrote about that finding in December, but it looks even more serious now that the preprint is out.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings are particularly credible and concerning because LISTEN\u2019s co-chair, Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, is a former president of the American Association of Immunologists who in 2021 called concerns about the mRNA shots \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release announcing the preprint\u2019s findings this morning, Dr. Iwasaki struck a different tone. \u201cThat was surprising, to find spike protein in circulation at such a late time point,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know if the level of spike protein is causing the chronic symptoms\u2026 but it could be one mechanism underlying this syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale cardiologist and the study\u2019s other co-chair, said the study needs to be repeated and expanded \u201cwith much larger numbers\u201d to confirm its findings and discover other possible outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Those would include if the immune system dysfunction improves or worsens over time, if spike protein levels continue to rise, and why people continue to have spike protein in their blood long after it should be gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/very-urgent-yale-researchers-have\">https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/very-urgent-yale-researchers-have<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another take on the same survey. Alex Berenson writes: This is bad news. Very bad. A Yale University team led by a top immunologist has found that some people who received the Covid vaccines have damage to their immune systems, as well as high and rising levels of spike protein in their blood. 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