Covid SURGES among VACCINATED but not among unvaccinated

Something really odd is going on:

In Europe we are seeing surges at many places where most of the population has already been vaccinated.

At the same time, the 15 least vaccinated countries don‘t seem to face any problem.

At some point, denying this problem will get painful.

Also take a look at what went on in the 15 most vaccinated countries worldwide

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Just 1.5% to 7% of the human genome is unique to Homo sapiens, free from signs of interbreeding or ancestral variants

Less than 10% of your genome is unique to modern humans, with the rest being shared with ancient human relatives such as Neanderthals, according to a new study. 

The study researchers also found that the portion of DNA that’s unique to modern humans is enriched for genes involved with brain development and brain function. This finding suggests that genes for brain development and function are what really set us apart, genetically, from our ancestors.

As little as 1.5% of our genome is ‘uniquely human’

The study: An ancestral recombination graph of human, Neanderthal, and Denisovan genomes

Excellent example of anti-science coming from medical “researchers”

In a (propaganda) article on “vaccine hesitancy,” the following comments were prominently featured. These comments were made by the coauthors of the study: Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations.

“There are many more side effects of the COVID long-haul symptoms that people have from the infection than there are from the side effects of getting the vaccine,” Adams said.

Dr. Jason Nagata is a co-author of the study and a pediatrician in San Francisco.

“One thing I’ve seen as a doctor is young people have really been affected the most by mental health issues during the pandemic due to social isolation and in order to reverse that, they really need to get vaccinated so they can go back to their normal routines,” Nagata said.

Here are some of the most common reasons behind COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

The reasoning stated above is almost obscenely anti-scientific. I might leave it alone if the study conducted by these two extremely biased “researchers” did not echo precisely the same bias. From the study:

With 24% of young adults hesitant to accept a COVID-19 vaccine, public health interventions should target reasons for hesitancy, address concerns about safety and side effects, and underscore the importance of vaccinations for this population.

Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations

See many other posts on this site for detailed explanations of why these “researchers” are so extremely bad at their jobs. I do not enjoy criticizing others but the stakes today in USA are so high on this issue and others that we must lash back at dishonest and stupid “scientists” who fail to even try to see the whole picture. ABN

Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection?

Nearly 40% of new COVID patients were vaccinated – compared to just 1% who had been infected previously.

Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

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Covid-19: Actual cases vs expected cases

A cursory chi-square analysis of Covid-19 cases vs. what we'd expect given population sizes shows obvious geographical patterns. Though this doesn't answer *why* we see these patterns, it brings us closer to the starting line.

Originally tweeted by StatSleuth (@StatSleuth) on July 11, 2021.

One hypothesis for these findings is China released a pathogen in 2017/18 that confers immunity for covid-19. A milder form of this hypothesis is that pathogen arose naturally in 2017/18 in China. ABN