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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

EXPERTS STRUGGLING AS COVID MUTATES

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Experts worry a South African variant of #Covid19 could be resistant to the new Covid vaccines, highlighting the principal concern of studies from 2018 over a vaccine’s ability to trigger pathogens to evolve. While some experts believe this is another reason natural herd immunity is superior to temporary vaccine protection, self-proclaimed “vaccine expert” and tech billionaire, Bill Gates, says the solution is yet another vaccine dose.

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0:00.0

Just this week we have a report of seven new variants coming out. This was on top of the ones that were already here from December.

0:07.6

Study researchers identify seven new US based US based coronavirus variants.

0:12.7

Now what's interesting here is there's a lot of word words going around and I thought I just, you know, from my understanding, there's a strain, there's a variant and there's a mutation.

0:23.4

So the strain is SARS-CoV-2. So that's the big umbrella SARS-CoV-2. So that's something that we've been dealing with the whole time for this thing.

0:32.7

The mutations are something that are happening in small processes all the time through viruses, through pathogens, very normal.

0:40.6

Most of them are not even seen, not even an issue, but when a variant is a version of the virus that's accumulated enough mutations to kind of branch off into a separate branch.

0:53.1

And become something that's possibly more transmissible or, you know, hopefully not.

0:57.5

And that's the way medicine defines those things. And I see a lot of reporting that is interchanging those words and becomes very confusing.

1:04.1

So the issue really here though is the point I'm saying with this is there's evidence that the vaccines are resisting these new strains.

1:13.5

And this was a South African variant is the one that's really been giving these vaccines a problem according to reporting.

1:19.3

So one of the trials that says new clinical trials raises fears the coronavirus is learning how to resist vaccines.

1:26.1

And this is most of the most of the vaccines. This talks about the South African variant, but this is just one of the new variants.

1:33.8

So we go back to 2018 because sometimes going back a couple of years before this misinformation censorship came in, you can see some real truth for reporting.

1:43.5

And this was one from 2018 vaccines are pushing pathogens to evolve. This really says it straight out.

1:50.1

It says in this, there's a couple of just amazing quotes recent research suggests, however, that some pathogen populations are adapting in ways that help them survive in a vaccinated world.

2:00.1

And that these changes come about in a variety of ways.

2:03.0

Immunization is also making once rare or not existent genetic variants of pathogens more prevalent, presumably because vaccine primed antibodies can't as easily recognizing attack shape shifters that look different from vaccine strains.

2:19.3

It's a fascinating article. I would suggest everyone go check that out. It really goes into the study that they did.

2:25.5

They took something it was called merix disease. This is a highly contagious disease that runs through chicken populations and just decimates herds kills them eventually.

2:34.6

And what they did was they took 100 chickens vaccinated them, 100 unvaccinated them and unvaccinated chickens follow them and found that the vaccinated chickens were shedding more lethal doses of this merix disease strain.

2:50.7

The unvaccinated were less lethal less contagious doses. And why is this a problem because there's been three tries this vaccine so far to combat this disease one in 1970, one in 1983, and the current one.

3:03.4

And the reason they did this research is they were afraid this current vaccine once that shifts they don't have a backup for a fourth.

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