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July 19, 2022

VSS Scientific Updates During Pandemic Times #29

1.    The Summer of Subvariants

“Another summertime wave of cases could prolong the pandemic, coming after many public health precautions were lifted and with available vaccines losing their efficacy against the ever-evolving virus.”

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/08/ba5-become-this-summers-subvariant

Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios

2.    New Study: Covid Booster SignificantlyDelays End of Infection

“Anew study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has demonstrated that people who are triple-vaccinated (boosted) against COVID recover significantly more slowly from COVID infection and remain contagious for longer than people who are not vaccinated at all.”

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356245

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3.    Vaccinated Account for 94% ofAll COVID-19 Deaths in the UK Since April

“Whilst you were distracted by Boris resigning, the UK Gov. quietly published a report confirming theVaccinated account for 94% of all COVID-19 Deaths since April, 90% of which were Triple/Quadruple Jabbed.”

https://expose-news.com/2022/07/11/boris-distraction-uk-gov-revealed-triple-vaccinated-94percent-covid-deaths/

4.    NYC Monkeypox Cases Double Again

“As of Monday, July 11, 223 people in the city have tested positive for orthopoxvirus (see below) and all likely have monkeypox, according to the city's Health Department. That is up from 111 cases on July 5 and more than quadruple the number from a week prior to that.”

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/monkeypox-town-hall-new-york

5. COVID-hit Cruise Ship Carrying More Than 100 Infected People Docks in Sydney

“They were all required to be vaccinated (medical exemptions are almost impossible to get in Australia).”

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/passengers-evacuated-due-to-covid

Credit: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

6.    Duration of Shedding of Culturable Virus in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (BA.1) Infection

“Although vaccination has been shown to reduce the incidence of infection and the severity of disease, we did not find large differences in the median duration of viral shedding among participants who were unvaccinated, those who were vaccinated but not boosted, and those who were vaccinated and boosted.”

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092

7.    Avian Flu Found in Oregon, RhodeIsland, and Michigan

“Millions of chickens and turkeys in the United States have been killed as officials try to slow the virus.”

https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/07/bird-flu-outbreak-suspected-in-michigan-community-bordering-wisconsin.html

https://www.kptv.com/2022/07/12/30-chickens-40-ducks-geese-euthanized-oregon-property-after-bird-flu-found/

https://www.golocalprov.com/news/bird-flu-confirmed-in-ri-public-urged-to-avoid-contact-with-dead-waterbirds

8.    Study Detects Ten Avian Influenza A Viruses in Poultry From Four Provinces in China

Comments from Geert: “Even when conducted during the endemic phase, large scale vaccination with non-replicating vaccines (in this case poultry) drives immune escape. So, imagine the impact when this type of mass vaccination programs are conducted during a pandemic‼”

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220714/Study-detects-ten-avian-influenza-A-viruses-in-poultry-from-four-provinces-in-China.aspx

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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. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development.

Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager. At GAVI he tracked efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine. He also represented GAVI in fora with other partners, including WHO, to review progress on the fight against Ebola and to build plans for global pandemic preparedness.

Back in 2015, Geert scrutinized and questioned the safety of the Ebola vaccine that was used in ring vaccination trials conducted by WHO in Guinea. His critical scientific analysis and report on the data published by WHO in the Lancet in 2015 was sent to all international health and regulatory authorities involved in the Ebola vaccination program. After working for GAVI, Geert joined the German Center for Infection Research in Cologne as Head of the Vaccine Development Office. He is at present primarily serving as a Biotech / Vaccine consultant while also conducting his own research on Natural Killer cell-based vaccines.

Email: info@voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org

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