Some Vaccines We've Got Here!

The Epoch Times quotes a new peer reviewed Qatar study showing how protection against infection after two vaccine doses is negative. In Iceland and Scotland, we already saw this trend last January.

Early this year, Icelandic data showed how Covid-19 infections were disproportionately high after two vaccine doses; the infection rate turned out to be considerably higher among those double-vaccinated than among the unvaccinated. Data from Public Health Scotland showed the same phenomenon. Now a new peer reviewed study confirms this.

Both in Iceland and Scotland there was a sudden shift in the data that took place around the same time the Omicron variant became prevalent. Suddenly, the protection level, which the numbers had shown to be rather constant between 30 and 50 percent, was down well below zero. The third dose still seemed to offer some protection though, while it was uncertain how long it would last.

Shocked by this new development I wrote an article in Icelandic daily Morgunblaðið drawing attention to the numbers and urging health authorities to investigate the issue, it was published in The Daily Sceptic also. The same day, the Icelandic chief epidemiologist responded, claiming the data weren’t really correct as the number of unvaccinated people was systematically undercounted. This of course was not a credible explanation as a systematic error would not suddenly appear out of thin air, it should have affected the results the whole time.

The next thing that happened was updates on the official Covid data website were stalled due to maintenance, and when they resumed some ten days later the infection rate of the unvaccinated had been pumped up by some 20%. No explanation given. There were of course only three possible explanations; that a large number of positive cases among the unvaccinated had suddenly been found, that a large number of unvaccinated people had mysteriously vanished over Christmas, or that the data had been manhandled.

The Scots simply stopped publishing the data, soon after some fact-checkers were pulled afloat with rather little success.

Now, the Epoch Times quotes a new peer reviewed Qatar study which shows the same results as the early Icelandic and Scottish data. Protection against infection after two vaccine doses is negative; that is, you’re more likely to get infected than if you had no injection - some vaccine we’ve got there! Three doses offer some protection, but the snag is the time since the third dose is only 40 days, while it generally takes quite a bit longer for the vaccine protection to wane. But prevous infection provides around 50% protection against reinfection by new variants.

I wonder what explanations we will get this time.