As pharmaceutical company Pfizer breaks the news for bringing the Covid-19 vaccine, a former vice president and company chief scientist Michael Yeadon said no vaccine is necessary to end the ongoing pandemic.
According to a report published in the Skeptics of the confinementYeadon wrote: “There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. It does not vaccinate people who are not at risk for the disease. Nor is it intended to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that has not been thoroughly tested in humans. “
Yeadon made the comment on the development of the vaccine while criticizing the role played by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), a UK government agency.
SAGE is tasked with determining UK public lockout policies in response to the Covid-19 virus.
He added: “SAGE says that everyone was susceptible and only 7 percent have been infected. I think this is literally amazing. They have ignored all the precedents in the field of immunological memory against respiratory viruses. They have not seen or ignored the excellent quality work of many of the world’s leading clinical immunologists who show that around 30 percent of the population had prior immunity. “
“They should also have excluded from ‘susceptible’ a large subset of younger children, who appear not to be infected, probably because their immature biology means that their cells express less of the spike protein receptor, called ACE2. I have not assumed that all young children do not participate in the transmission, but I think that a value of two thirds is very conservative. It’s not material anyway, ”Yeadon wrote.
“So SAGE is demonstrably wrong on a really crucial variable: they did not assume prior immunity, while the evidence clearly points to a value of around 30 percent (and almost 40 percent if you include some young children, who are technically in rather than ‘immune’), ”Yeadon wrote.
He concluded that the pandemic has effectively ended and can be easily managed by a properly functioning NHS (National Health Service).
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