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(I note that Dr. Vanden Bossche only set up his Twitter account two weeks ago and already has over 16K followers.) Failure to comply with these requirements is at risk of granting microbes a chance to survive and hence, may cause the disease to fare [sic] up. As a creative thinker, innovator, entrepreneur and. Vanden Bossche is using an eerily similar argument about COVID-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2, he wrote for the blog Science-Based Medicine, to the one used by Wakefield about [the measles-mumps-rubella] vaccine and measles. Geert Vanden Bossche (@GVDBossche) / Twitter The estimated length is calculated using the number of page turns on a Kindle, using settings to closely represent a physical book. Indeed, antibodies (Abs) produced by our own immune system can be considered self-made antiviral antibiotics, regardless of whether they are part of our innate immune system (so-called natural Abs) or elicited in response to specific pathogens (resulting in so-called acquired Abs). He reminds me of another doctor who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination based on an unbending principle of immunology to justify his concerns, without any clinical or epidemiological evidence to support it. Are vaccines destined for a similar fate? In scenario #2, we vaccinate as many people as we can and as quickly as we can. If there emerge SARS-CoV-2 variants that are less susceptible to the immunity produced by COVID-19 vaccines, the answer is to reformulate the vaccines! Were in a race with the new variants, Sara Del Valle, a computational epidemiologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico explained in a March 2021 feature in the scientific journal Nature. This book provides a thought-provoking analysis of the complex interactions between the virus and the host immune system that underlie the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. NK cells are part of the cellular arm of our innate immune system and, alike [sic] natural Abs, they are capable of recognizing and attacking a broad and diversified spectrum of pathogenic agents. Maybe. There is, indeed, compelling scientific evidence that these cells play a key role in facilitating complete elimination of Covid-19 at an early stage of infection in asymptomatically infected subjects. Even if it were evolving resistance, once again, the answer would be to reformulate the vaccine in order to include the altered antigens, the same conclusion made when considering the possibility that B. pertussis was evolving resistance or that evolutionary drift was leading to the predominance of strains not covered by the vaccine. [Editors note: Scott Gavura had circumstances pop up that prevented him from producing a post for today. And if we are concerned about the anti-vaccination movement, we should wonder why they were so quick to prop up the portentous letter of an alleged pro-vaccine scientist. The present extremely critical situation forces me to spread this emergency call.