Nine myths about vaccination: what experts say

Myth one: it’s better to do nothing than to get vaccinated

Igor Sokolov, general practitioner, director of the Sodalitas Medical Center, Lithuania: “No one will say that there were no cases of thrombosis and no deaths.
But even before the vaccine era, I talked to colleagues from Harvard: they said that in a period of mass vaccination, when hundreds of millions and billions of people will be involved, anything can happen. It will be necessary to evaluate frequency, connections and probabilities. And the latest comparison of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccinations, conducted at the University of Edinburgh, showed that the frequency of thrombosis and even bleeding in conditions after vaccination does not exceed slightly more than 1.3 cases per hundred thousand injections administered. You know, this is such a tiny frequency that will be characteristic of any vaccination - against the flu and so on.” Sergei Kharitonov, molecular biologist, researcher at Moscow State University. Lomonosova: “When we talk about the risks of vaccination, for some reason a person chooses this model: there is me who was vaccinated, there are potential risks, and there is me who simply lives without a vaccine. But this is not a completely correct model for assessing risks. It is necessary to compare the risks from the vaccine and the risks from infection with coronavirus. Because in the current epidemiological situation, either you will have a vaccine, or sooner or later you will have coronavirus.

We know the risks of coronavirus. A healthy person gets sick and gets severe symptoms - bleeding disorders and others, you know them all. He is hospitalized and is on a ventilator. A lot of people who were previously healthy are dying from coronavirus. The risks are extreme.

And let's look at healthy people who are vaccinated with any vaccine that has passed clinical trials. There are risks, but they are extremely small. They are more than if you just sit in a sterile box. But you don't live in a sterile box. Coronavirus is flying around you on the street, and here the risks are completely different. So it’s obvious: the risks of vaccination are extremely small compared to the risks of contracting a real infection, and there is no reason for a healthy person not to get vaccinated.”

Why are vaccinations dangerous?

Vaccines can sometimes stop the development of natural infections such as chickenpox, but the consequences of widespread use of vaccines can be very serious. The true benefits of vaccines are theoretical, but the risks associated with them have not yet been studied, and an increasing number of parents are refusing to vaccinate their children.

Celeste McGovern, an independent journalist, writes about this, talking about a US study by Anthony Mawson Study, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Jackson University, and his colleagues, which revealed who is healthier: vaccinated or unvaccinated children, and The study's results shocked some parents.
As the journalist notes, the first study of its kind, studying vaccinated and unvaccinated American children educated at home rather than at school (homeschooling), revealed who was healthier, and it became a reason for parents to wonder whether they should trust doctors who insist vaccinate your child, assuring that the child will be healthy. More and more parents understand that modern pharmaceuticals are mainly aimed not at getting rid of the disease, but mainly at making money.

Bill Gates and the US elites do not vaccinate their children!

Celeste McGovern notes that there is always something wrong with today's children.
They suffer from allergies, asthma, anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, autism, and hyperactivity. They are distracted and unable to learn. 32 million American children—or 43% of them—suffer from at least one of 20 chronic diseases, not including obesity. In addition, the incidence of previously rare pediatric disorders such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), type 1 diabetes, and Tourette syndrome is increasing, although few studies integrate these data. Compared to their parents' generation, today's children are four times more likely to develop chronic diseases. While their grandparents may have never taken a pill as children, today's generation of children is living out a pharmaceutical salesman's dream: More than a million American children under the age of five are taking psychiatric medications. More than 8.3 million children under the age of 17 have used psychiatric medications at least once, and one in four take at least one prescription drug for something in any given month of the year.

Sweden introduces a ban on compulsory vaccination

Additionally, there have been no long-term studies on the effects of vaccinations on overall health. What's most interesting is that no published studies to date have compared vaccinated and unvaccinated children's health status years after vaccination. There are no such studies initiated by governments so far.

A pilot study of 666 homeschooled children ages 6 to 12 from four U.S. states was published in the Journal of Translational Sciences. The study matched 261 unvaccinated children with 405 partially or fully vaccinated children. Their general health was assessed based on their mothers' reports of vaccinations received and physician-diagnosed diseases. The study's findings regarding increased immune diseases such as allergies and nervous system diseases including autism should make parents think twice before vaccinating their child:

*vaccinated children were 4 times more likely to have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder *vaccinated children were 30 times more likely to have a diagnosis of allergic rhinitis (suffer from a fever) than unvaccinated children *vaccinated children were 22 times more likely to suffer from drug allergies than unvaccinated children *vaccinated children children were 5 times more likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability than unvaccinated children *vaccinated children were 340% more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than unvaccinated children *vaccinated children were 5.9 times more likely to be diagnosed with pneumonia than unvaccinated children

*vaccinated children were 3.8 times more likely to have a middle ear infection (otitis media) than unvaccinated children (OR 3.8) *vaccinated children were 700% more likely to have ear drain surgery than unvaccinated children *vaccinated children were 2 times more likely to have ear drain surgery than unvaccinated children .4 times more likely to have a chronic disease than unvaccinated children

The problem with conducting such a study, which also happens to be about 100 years too late, is that almost all American children are now vaccinated. If 95% percent of children receive injections, there is little way to study the long-term effects. If American children are compared with unvaccinated children, for example in the Amish community, who do not recognize modern technology, the results are clear, but critics believe that such research is inconclusive. It's like comparing apples and oranges. Too many other variables—diet, fresh air, time in front of the computer, etc.—can explain differences in health, and the patterns identified are not necessarily explained by vaccinations.

For this reason, Anthony Mawson, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Jackson State University, along with his colleagues Azad Bhuiyan and Binu Jacob, along with Brian D. Ray, head of the National Home Education Research Institute in Salem, conducted a study of homeschooled children who were not attending school. In this case, homeschooled children were compared with homeschooled children (apples to apples). At the same time, homeschooled children fit well into the standard profile of an American family. The study was conducted anonymously online in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oregon.

Disease Fair

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Both vaccinated and unvaccinated children sometimes got sick during the study. As expected, vaccinated children were less likely to get sick from some of the infections they were vaccinated against. They were significantly less likely to suffer from chickenpox and whooping cough.

However, there was no evidence that vaccinated children were better protected against measles or mumps. Children in both groups had similar rates of measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, influenza, rotavirus, and meningitis (viral and bacterial).

Moreover, unvaccinated children have been shown to be more protected from some supposedly “vaccine-preventable” diseases than vaccinated children. Since 2000, it has been recommended to get 4 vaccinations against seven different strains of pneumococcal disease before the age of 15 months (versus 13 strains since 2010), but vaccinated children were 490% more likely to get pneumonia than unvaccinated children.

Brain drain

So, what is the price of this vaccine protection against whooping cough and chickenpox?

The connection between autism and vaccines is a major pain point in the entire vaccine debate. Autism used to be a rare disorder, but today in every class there is a child with such a disorder: in the 80s there was one autist per 10,000 children, in the early 90s - per 2,500 children. 5 years ago there was one autistic child for every 88 children, and today there is one autistic child for every 68.

The cited study provides data that vaccinated children have a 4 times higher risk of developing autism than unvaccinated children.

"We don't know all the causes of autism," says the CDC. In fact, they simply do not want to admit that they have not identified a single cause of autism. And not a single method of treatment.

They still cite a 2004 study from the journal Pediatrics denying a link between autism and vaccinations, although one of the authors, top-level scientist William Thompson, later admitted that he and his colleagues withheld the data (he saved copies) that suggested a link between autism and the measles, rubella and mumps vaccine. "Oh God, I can't believe we did this," Thompson admitted in a recorded phone call with Brian Hooker, a professor of bioenergetics at Simpson University and the father of an autistic child.

Thompson's case, which shed light on vaccinations, was the subject of the 2016 documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, by Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist and one of the first who suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in the late 90s, and became a symbol of how the system breaks dissenters. The CDC doesn't want people to see this movie.

The center also fails to mention that the federal government was forced to acknowledge the role of vaccines in the rise of autism and paid compensation to some parents of affected children. A number of courts have also found a link between autism and vaccinations. Then there are the thousands of parents who the courts and governments say don't exist, but who tell the same story: They saw their children develop autism after being vaccinated.

Vaccine-related brain and nervous system damage is nothing new. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, which causes disability and possibly blindness, for example, has been described in the medical literature for many decades and is a documented consequence of almost any vaccine. The disease causes white spots in the brain visible on MRI and can develop into multiple sclerosis. Narcolepsy and Guillain-Barré syndrome are other examples. So what role can vaccines play in brain damage? Don't ask the official departments about this because they have never dealt with this issue. Their task is to assert that vaccines are not harmful, but even very useful (question: who set such a task?). However, a study conducted by Jackson University found that learning disabilities in vaccinated children were five times higher than in unvaccinated children. Vaccinated children are four times more likely to develop ADHD and three times more likely to develop any neurodevelopmental disorder (that is, slowed growth and development of the brain and central nervous system due to learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism).

Mercury, aluminum and what else?

Vaccine ingredients are known to cause brain damage. Robert Kennedy Jr. studied the dangers of mercury in thimerosal, used as a preservative in vaccines and also linked to autism.

Another well-known and well-documented neurotoxin is aluminum. It is added to a vaccine to provoke a response from the immune system. Recent research has disproved everything that scientists previously claimed (and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to disprove), namely: aluminum does not leave our body for hours or days. It remains for years and can migrate to various organs, including the lymph, spleen and brain. Aluminum in vaccines can lead to chronic fatigue syndrome, macrophage myofasciitis in numerous autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease. It can also cause sudden death after vaccination and autism.

The Food and Drug Administration doesn't even deny aluminum is toxic. They even admit that there are enough toxins in vaccines to cause the described consequences. However, they recognize such harm only from oral exposure to aluminum.

Even so, memory impairment has been reported in laboratory mice, and “young animals appeared weaker and less active if their mothers were exposed to large amounts of aluminum during pregnancy and lactation.”

Injection is unlikely to be much safer. “It should be clear that the route of entry in which aluminum passes through the protective barriers of the gastrointestinal tract and/or skin requires a much lower dose to cause adverse effects,” stated a 2014 study blaming aluminum for the autism epidemic.

In addition to toxic metals such as aluminum and mercury, vaccines may contain contaminants such as DNA taken from aborted babies, animal DNA and retroviruses. In addition, vaccines contain other impurities, including metals, that are not measured by regulatory authorities and whose health effects have never been studied.

Link to ear infections

Vaccinated children in the study were four times more likely than unvaccinated children to receive a medical diagnosis of an ear infection, and these children were 700% more likely to have ear drain surgery to combat recurrent or persistent infections.

The number of acute ear infections has increased rapidly around the globe over the past decades. Today they are so common that they are no longer paid attention to. These infections affect 80% of American children by age three. Today, this is the main reason for visiting a doctor, taking antibiotics and undergoing surgical interventions in children - we are talking about the installation of plastic tubes in the ear. Pediatric ear infections cost the U.S. health care system nearly three billion dollars annually.

The study examined reports of middle ear infections from the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Alert database. The analysis found 438,573 cases of otitis media in children under one year of age within one week of vaccination between 1990 and 2011. Often otitis media was accompanied by fever and other symptoms of inflammation, as well as damage to the central nervous system. If it is only children under 1 year of age whose illness develops within one week of vaccination, how many children of all ages develop ear infections after vaccination? Nobody knows the answer to this question.

Atomic bomb for microorganisms

Moson and his colleagues studied the mechanism of ear infection. In this regard, they cite a 2006 study that examined all types of bacteria in the nasal passages of children vaccinated against pneumococcus and compared the findings with children living before mass immunization with the vaccine. The result showed an increase in the number of bacteria called M. catarrhalis in the vaccinated group. As it turned out, these bacteria cause an increased risk of ear infections.

Not surprisingly, vaccinated children were twice as likely to take antibiotics. They were also more likely to be hospitalized.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics, such as those often used to treat ear infections, act on microorganisms like napalm, which burns out all pathogens, but also harm and affect other microbes. As a result of their influence, the microbiome composition changes. Science is only now beginning to study this question to what extent these changes can affect our health. New research findings point to a growing list of diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, Crohn's disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, anxiety disorders, depression, mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and autism.

In a 2011 Lancet study from Denmark, researchers concluded that the pneumococcal vaccine had "much broader effects on microflora than previously thought, highlighting the need for detailed monitoring when using vaccines..."

Another recent study found that, along with killing pneumococci, the vaccine frees up space for several other types of infectious pathogens. What is the result of the impact of 69 vaccines on a child’s microflora? Health officials haven't even asked that question until now.

Shortness of breath and itching

A Jackson University study shows that vaccinated children were thirty times more likely to be diagnosed with allergic rhinitis (hay fever) than unvaccinated children. This proportion exceeds the relationship between smoking and lung cancer. Vaccinated children also had higher rates of allergies and three times the risk of eczema.

All allergic disorders lead to more intensive medication use. The study found that vaccinated children were 22 times more likely to take allergy medications than unvaccinated children.

Allergic rhinitis (hay fever) is another rapidly growing childhood disease. In 2012, it affected 6.6 million children. This disease is closely related to another acute childhood disorder, asthma. More than three million American children suffer from food allergies, and one in four suffer from eczema. Allergic diseases are on the rise around the world, affecting nearly half of all American schoolchildren today.

As with autism, public health officials are at a loss to explain the sharp rise in allergic diseases. However, researchers are testing animals by exposing them to aluminum components, such as those used in vaccines. Recent experiments (examples can be found here, here and here) describe how scientists use aluminum to stimulate allergic rhinitis (hay fever) in mice.

This 2014 study shows how researchers used aluminum dioxide in combination with pertussis (bordetella pertussis, a bacterium found in DPT vaccines for every child aged two, four, six and 18 months; these vaccines also contain aluminum). The researchers exposed the animals to the antigen orally, such as through food such as soy or peanuts. The goal was to produce rats that were allergic to food.

Studies such as this and this describe how aluminum dioxide combined with egg white, also a component of vaccines, is used to trigger asthma in animals.

How can the CDC not admit that the ingredients scientists themselves use to cause allergic diseases in animals also cause similar diseases in children?

No explanation?

“There are no explanations for the differences in health outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups of children other than vaccination itself,” the study authors concluded. Although the study does not involve analysis of cause and effect, there is a mutual correlation between vaccination and the incidence of chronic diseases. However, partially vaccinated children show average rates of chickenpox, whooping cough, ear infections, pneumonia, allergic rhinitis, ADHD, eczema and learning disabilities.

Moson and his colleagues believe that “the results of the study warrant continued work of this type. Investigating and understanding the biological causes of these unexpected effects of vaccination is essential to ensuring evidence-based vaccination policies.”

However, there is little hope that health authorities will show interest and understanding in connection with the results of this study. Their position is clear: vaccines are a miracle of modern medicine. They have saved millions of lives and improved the quality of life of many more. However, there is a small fact that has been noticed since the very start of mass vaccination - it is that many of the children will be seriously harmed as a result of vaccination, and some of them will die. It is believed that their lives are a small sacrifice in the name of the great good of saving humanity from dangerous infectious diseases.

For more than a century, it was dogma that the benefits of vaccination outweighed its disadvantages. Moreover, since 1995, 5 new vaccines have been introduced, bringing the total number of vaccines in kindergarten to 35. No studies have ever been conducted on the complex effects of such vaccines. The reality is this: the true benefits of vaccines lie in the theoretical plane, and the risks associated with them are still not understood.

The growing "war on vaccines" comes as a large number of hesitant parents are asking the CDC: Why are doctors who receive compensation from administering vaccines also public health officials? Can government health authorities be trusted to protect their children when they are so closely tied to the pharmaceutical industry? Why do vaccines have toxins? Does my child really need this vaccine? Or are they just trying to sell it to me, like Coca-Cola or a computer game? Why do we think it is acceptable to knowingly sacrifice some children in the name of a mythical greater good? Is this common good a reality or a mirage?

Vaccines can sometimes stop natural infections such as chickenpox from developing. However, at what cost? What other consequences of using vaccines are there? And if vaccines are so wonderful, why are American children so sick?

“The pilot project confirms that if our official medicine and public health services are truly interested in the health of children, and not in profits from the sale of vaccines and in protecting the religion of vaccinations from sacrilege, then they should not force everyone to take their word for it, but take it upon themselves the courage to find out the truth,” said Celeste McGovern, a freelance journalist writing for ghostshipmedia.

Myth two: the vaccine infects people with dangerous viruses

Sergei Kharitonov: “There are “clubs” sticking out above the surface of the coronavirus particle - this is the S-protein (or spike protein - editor's note). Most of the vaccines that are being developed today - be it vector, mRNA, peptide vaccine, whatever - aim to produce antibodies to this spike protein. To do this, our body needs to “show” the S-protein, without infecting the body with a real infection. This can be done in different ways. In fact, vaccines differ only in the way they deliver the S protein or information about the S protein into our body.

The Sputnik V vaccine is a vector vaccine. We took an adenovirus - such viruses cause mild colds and can effectively infect our cells, which is important for us in this case. We modified this virus - we removed all the genetic information that allows the virus to multiply and harm us, and instead inserted information about the coronavirus S protein. Thus, the adenoviral particle has turned into a vector - into a truck that can do nothing wrong, but can deliver information about the S protein to our cells.

After this, the cells, as in a real coronavirus infection, begin to produce S-protein. They detect the S protein and tell the immune system that there is some kind of infection with the S protein in the body. The immune system produces antibodies, and we receive protection against coronavirus. We simulate an infectious infection with a completely safe particle and provide the body with information about the coronavirus.”

Grigory Efimov, head of the laboratory of transplantation immunology of the National Medical Research Center (NMRC) of Hematology of the Ministry of Health : “Vector viruses themselves do not multiply. Another thing is that side effects can be expressed in temperature and you can get sick against the background of not yet fully formed immunity during vaccination.”

Vasily Kupreichik, general practitioner, head of department at the City Clinical Hospital No. 40 (Kommunarka): “Today, according to my manual calculations, out of a little more than 23,000 people who were admitted (to Kommunarka - editor's note) since December 30, 136 have received either one or two doses of the vaccine. Of these 136 people, thirteen deaths occurred, nine of which occurred after the first dose of the vaccine. Analysis of these data showed that people received confirmation of coronavirus infection around the fifth day after vaccination. On average, the first symptoms of the disease appear somewhere between the seventh and tenth day; most likely, they became ill before vaccination. That is, to say that there are a lot of these people... well, it’s about 0.6%. In vaccinated people, the disease is milder. Once again in numbers: 0.6% are vaccinated, thirteen of them died - this is 0.06% of deaths. That is, if a patient is vaccinated and ends up in Kommunarka, the medical staff is not very worried about this patient.”

What is important to know about the Ministry of Health’s list of deadly vaccinations

Russians are wary of important vaccinations Photo: Alexander Elizarov © URA.RU

The appearance on the Internet of a manual from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation with recommendations on the use of deadly vaccinations excited not only ordinary Russians, but also the medical community. According to the professor of the State Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums named after. I. I. Mechnikov RAMS Mikhail Kostinov , the document itself is a “misunderstanding,” but the problem of vaccination and the attitude towards vaccinations on the part of the country’s citizens requires additional education. Why you shouldn’t be afraid of vaccines, how to protect yourself from fatal diseases against the backdrop of the “common cold” and where fears of vaccinations come from, an immunologist told URA.RU

— Mikhail Petrovich, how did you react to the appearance in the media of the Russian Ministry of Health guidelines on deadly vaccines?

According to an immunologist, vaccines are absolutely safe for health

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— The very wording “deadly vaccines” is creepy and frightening. Any doctor has a question: why release a medicine if it causes people to die? This is nonsense, but I think that this whole story is just a big misunderstanding.

— Are vaccines and inoculations fraught with any danger?

— You need to understand that any vaccine, like antibiotics and vitamins, has indications and contraindications. Any immunobiological drug undergoes many examinations. If there is even the slightest chance that its use will lead to death, then the government cannot release it. These requirements are international.

“But one cannot deny the obvious fact: Russians are reluctant to get vaccinated, and many are trying to protect their children from the same DTP vaccine (against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus).

— The whole problem, as usual, comes from ignorance. If we take the DTP vaccine, then the requirements are the same in both the USA and Russia: it cannot be given to patients of any age who have severe damage to the central nervous system. These data are naturally taken into account by doctors before vaccination. For patients with contraindications, there is another class of vaccines. Roughly speaking, the amount of antigen in it is reduced three thousand times.

Vaccines undergo multiple trials

Photo: Vladimir Zhabrikov © URA.RU

— Why then not give everyone a “safe” option to avoid side effects?

— It has been proven that the first type is more effective than the “purified” one. Moreover, the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates the first option for vaccinating children. And I would like to separately note that side effects often mean an absolutely normal reaction of the body in the form of fever or slight redness of the skin. Moreover, people often panic even if there were no effects from the vaccine at all.

— Do the symptoms appear immediately?

— In the case of DTP, the reaction appears almost immediately. In other cases, individual symptoms may appear on days 3-4.

— In addition to the DPT vaccine, BCG is also on the “deadly” list. Can you tell me what it is?

— This is the only super vaccine against tuberculosis in its class. There is no other one in the world yet. There is only one category that is prohibited from receiving this vaccine - children born with primary (congenital) immunodeficiency of the cellular type. But such children cannot be given other drugs - the same polio vaccines, against rubella, chickenpox. But very few such children are born now.

— What is stopping you from promoting the idea of vaccination in Russia?

— Prevention methods must be improved, but how will this happen if people themselves refuse to be vaccinated and become targets of infections. Vaccination is needed so that people do not become chronically ill and can have children in the future. You need to understand: if a person gets sick with polio or diphtheria, it is no longer possible to recover. Tetanus has no cure. Tuberculosis, which was mentioned above, too. If we talk about children with serious diagnoses, then they need to be given vaccinations, which can even stop serious diseases for a while. For example, for infectious pathologies and bronchopulmonary, for diseases of the renal system.

— Every year, outbreaks of acute respiratory infections and influenza occur in every region. Is this also a consequence of weak vaccination?

- Undoubtedly. Everyone forgets that the flu is not just a runny nose, cough, or fever. Flu is a terrible thing that can very quickly lead to a pandemic and fatal complications. It often puts a fatal strain on the cardiovascular system. If a person gets the flu for the first time, up to 7% of such cases can result in a heart attack and up to 12% in a stroke. Moreover, before this, a person can be absolutely healthy. Don't forget about pneumonia, which goes hand in hand with the flu. He first sterilizes the entire name system - almost like an ax to the head.

Myth three: vaccinations will not protect against new strains, so there is no point in getting vaccinated

Sergei Kharitonov: “When we give the second injection of the vaccine, new antibodies appear. A large number of different antibodies allows the vaccine to work against different strains. If we have many different antibodies circulating in our blood, the effectiveness of immunity remains. That is why most vaccines - Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and many others - use a kind of “two-factor system”.

The virus is produced and mutates within each sick person, so the emergence of new strains is inevitable. And so talking about the dangers of vaccines and their side effects is not as important compared to talking about whether vaccines protect against COVID. And, according to modern data, they protect. If you have received two injections, you are already very likely not to end up in hospital with coronavirus. It is not so important what new strain we have, but the important question is: have you been vaccinated with any available vaccine that is near you? All scientific evidence says: if you are vaccinated, you are either protected from coronavirus or protected from the severe consequences of coronavirus.”

Igor Sokolov: “In reality, we currently have, seriously speaking, only one vaccine - Sputnik V, which is quite effective and, judging by the AstraZeneca data, can protect against all strains, including the Indian one, but in this case I would I did not recommend maintaining long periods of time between revaccinations. If we take Pfizer and AstraZeneca as a guide, one stage of the Sputnik V vaccination will not significantly protect against the new strain.”

Myth four: I have a strong immune system, which means I don’t need a vaccine

Igor Sokolov: “I have patients who say: “I didn’t get infected, although I was in close contact.” The person who has not become infected believes that some innate defense systems have worked, his cellular immunity is working and he cannot become infected. In most cases this is not the case. I would not rely on the fact that “I am so exceptional.” I had two patients who did not become infected for a year, although they were in contact with their friends who were sick. But in May and early June, we got sick, quite seriously. That is, the behavior “I have not become infected and will not become infected further,” in my opinion, is flawed.”

What are the benefits of vaccinations?

Epidemics and dangerous diseases have always accompanied humanity. Some of them claimed millions of lives. Thanks to the creation of vaccines, it was possible to completely eradicate a disease such as smallpox. Outbreaks of anthrax, polio and diphtheria are much less common. Vaccines have made diseases manageable.

Mass vaccination of children and adults contributes to the development of collective immunity. This stops the process of transmission of infection from infected people to healthy people. Since those vaccinated have antibodies, they do not become infected and the disease gradually subsides, stopping its spread.

Vaccines help humanity. With their help, it was possible to reduce the mortality rate, they prevent disability in case of infection, and help fight the most dangerous diseases.

Myth #5: Vaccines contain a toxic spike protein that causes infertility.

Igor Sokolov: “There is no evidence that vaccines, including vector ones, have a negative effect on reproductive function. Moreover, the respected New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article on the effect of vaccination on spermatogenesis. The fact is that the use of the Pfizer vaccine caused an increase in the number and motility of sperm in men. Nine out of ten people who were actually infertile had their semen analysis return to normal after vaccination. This is confirmed by research."

Vasily Kupreichik: “People worry about certain pregnancies that could potentially happen to them after vaccination, and forget that the virus is also found in the reproductive organs. This was shown back in August last year in studies by Austrian scientists who detected the virus in both male and female reproductive organs. But we're worried about a vaccine that doesn't do anything about it. I don’t understand why people make this cognitive distortion that the vaccine is dangerous and the virus is okay.”

Grigory Efimov: “No research has been conducted to show that pregnancy or breastfeeding is harmed by coronavirus. Therefore, now, out of the principle of caution, various manufacturers write that for such and such conditions, concomitant diseases, there is no need to use the vaccine.”

Can the vaccine cause harm?

The composition of the vaccine is strictly regulated. However, the vaccine causes a number of reactions in some people. They are divided into acceptable and undesirable. Acceptable reactions are related to the functioning of the immune system. These include:

increased body temperature;
moderate malaise;
lethargy;
moodiness;
a feeling of pain and swelling at the injection site.

These symptoms go away on their own over a short period of time. Medical assistance is not required.

Adverse reactions most often occur in people with hypersensitivity, individual intolerance or immune disorders. In this case, a variety of allergic reactions, including anaphylactic shock, may occur.

To avoid unwanted reactions, a person must undergo a comprehensive examination before vaccination. After administering the drug, the patient should also be under the supervision of medical personnel for half an hour. If a child is at risk or has contraindications, an individual vaccination schedule is developed for him.

With the right and responsible approach, unwanted reactions occur extremely rarely.

Myth six: if you have already been ill, you don’t need to get vaccinated

Grigory Efimov: “There is an opinion that natural vaccination - a transferred disease - is more effective than immunization with a vaccine. But both antibody levels and T-cell levels are higher in vaccinated people. And another important note: after vaccination, antibodies are produced specifically against the spike protein (if this vaccine is aimed at the spike protein), while after a natural disease, most of the antibodies are produced against other proteins and have no protective meaning. Re-vaccination once again reminds our immune system that this virus is important, that these lymphocytes are needed. And thereby enhances immune memory.

The original strain provided fairly strong immunity against itself - the number of recurrent diseases was very small. This immunity was the same as that of the most effective vaccines, that is, about 97% protection. But new strains are appearing, in particular Indian. It is much more contagious and people with high antibody levels are less likely to become infected. This is one of the arguments in favor of why those who have been ill should be vaccinated. Most likely, those who have recovered from the disease only need one dose of the vaccine. The vaccine that they are now promising to bring to the market, Sputnik Light, is convenient in that it is just one injection.”

Vasily Kupreichik: “The new delta strain significantly rejuvenated the coronavirus infection, and somewhere between June 10 and 15, I talked to the intensive care unit and asked who was on ECMO. The oldest patient on ECMO was 41 years old. That is, the coronavirus infection has now become significantly younger, and at the same time thinking that “I’ll get over it and they won’t touch me” is probably a losing proposition, that is, there’s no need to do that. It may come back to haunt you. It’s a game of Russian roulette, so to speak.”

Vaccination or gene modification: why is Sputnik V dangerous?

May 13, 2021, 11:43 am - Public News Service - OSN Mass vaccination against COVID-19 is in full swing. But not everyone is in a hurry to get vaccinated. It is known that even if you have had coronavirus and have antibodies, after vaccination their number will increase and the protection will become more reliable. Guests of the program spoke about what is known about the Russian vaccine and its analogues abroad, what side properties they have and why people are in no hurry to get vaccinated on the Public News Service

Molecular biologist Elena Calle;
Professor at the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University, USA Ancha Baranova.

Elena Kalle: – I am not against vaccines and vaccinations. I am for a balanced approach. I am in favor of respecting the doctrine of informed consent. Kazakov said that the doctrine of informed consent was built in blood. The doctrine says that a person who decides to undergo medical intervention must be provided with complete information about the drug in a language that he understands and in terms that he understands. I believe that there is no complete information about any of our vaccines, so the conditions of the doctrine are not met. People have become literate, they perceive it more as advertising rather than scientific conversation. This is where mistrust comes from.

The strength of scientists lies in the clarity of presentation of information. When a scientist uses bird language, it is a signal that he does not want to reveal the full truth. I believe that absolutely all the terms on vaccination and biology are not rocket science and physics, they are quite accessible. It's up to the people who have the desire to convey the facts.

Ancha Baranova: – We have a very terrible enemy – the coronavirus. As a whole, we have found ourselves in a strange and new situation. This virus is quite dangerous. Although many people get sick with mild symptoms, there are still a significant number of people who feel unwell because they have additional medical conditions. In this situation, we have three options: the first is finding medicines, the second is social distancing, the third is vaccination. We must actively apply this. Yes, now we need to discuss all this more. Discourses in the US and Russia are not comparable in depth. In fact, although Russians say that they do not have enough information, they have a much greater desire to receive this information than US citizens. We have several generations of scientists working on vaccines. So we have a pretty good idea in detail of how these vaccines work. For this, we have not only scientific articles, but also technical regulations that describe everything down to the smallest detail.

Now there are many types of weapons against coronavirus, we need to use them.

Elena Kalle: – The position of scientists that everything is known, that everyone is confident in the results - this is not the position of classical biology and not the position of science at all.

In science there is always room for doubt.

I do not believe that Sputnik is a vaccine drug. By definition, a vaccine is a drug that is administered to which an immune response is elicited. As for Sputnik, an instruction (gene) is introduced, it goes to the nucleus of a human cell, a copy is read from this instruction, and these numerous copies are sent to the cell. With the help of these copies, the coronavirus protein is synthesized, and an immune response should arise to this spike. That is, this is not a direct response of the body to the substance, but rather a three-step process occurs in the human body, and only then does the immune response occur.

Previously, these types of drugs were developed to repair genes. Because biologists have a theory that genes are responsible for all our diseases. This is a gene therapy drug.

A person who receives Sputnik becomes genetically modified by definition. I didn’t see the clinical trials of this vaccine, I didn’t see where the stamp came from, I can’t say anything about this vaccine, because I simply didn’t read the results of the clinical trials.

Ancha Baranova: – There is biology. And scientists know quite a lot. Sputnik cannot modify our genes in any way, because viruses are not capable of integrating into the human genome. Yes, they are a good and convenient tool for delivering some piece of DNA, from which the protein we need in our cell will then be read. But this expression is called transient (temporary).

A big plus is that vaccination is now free. It won't always be this way.

Elena Kalle: – We began to recognize that the vaccine is not safe and has risks. They say that they renamed the definition, but no, we changed the concept. These are different things, this is a deep meaning, this is a mechanism. The mechanism of immune development itself is different. Scientists have a tradition of publishing their data to be published in clinical trials.

Ancha Baranova: – You can look at the details where the pharmacogenetics and pharmacodynamics of the drug “Sputnik” were carried out, but I haven’t read it. That is, it was studied in which human tissues what expression is found. Of course, we didn't see all the fabrics. But what we saw allowed us to study the issue.

Elena Kalle: – We have our own domestic instructions, adopted during Onishchenko’s rule. Accepted, signed, developed specifically for government agencies. The instructions were created in case a new, unidentified disease suddenly appears on the territory of the Russian Federation. It says step by step how our organs should act. The first thing we do is establish what kind of agent it is.

There are procedures for everything, everything is written in Russian.

This time they didn't work for us. There was no verification by domestic institutions. A signal came from WHO. And it was these procedures and rules that were adopted. Firstly, it has not been proven that this is a terrible virus. Its lethal group was established almost immediately, but on what grounds and experiments is unclear. The statistics are also very strange. Have you ever seen people with asymptomatic flu?

Ancha Baranova: – Yes, we have people who catch the flu and remain ill with minimal symptoms.

The virus in the blood is detected only at a very high degree of infection.

Elena Kalle: – Synthetic control fits well with the PCR kit. Where is the panel of similar viruses? Those viruses that can live in a person and not cause him harm.

Ancha Baranova: – We don’t diagnose everything. It's too long, expensive and pretty pointless. Coronavirus tests do exactly what we need them to do. We look and see the result, whether the virus is present or the virus is absent.

Everything is described in detail in those original works that describe the creation of the first tests for coronavirus.

Myth seven: chronic disease or cancer is a contraindication

Grigory Efimov: “As for risk groups, I can only give this general answer. How are clinical trials structured? The developers created the vaccine and recruited the healthiest young people on whom they conducted their clinical trials. Then, in the second stage, people of more different ages were recruited, but no specific chronic diseases were included. Therefore, for general reasons, they often write either “contraindicated” or “use with caution in the following conditions.” It simply means that no such studies have been done.

And here the opinions of our regulators and the opinions of, for example, foreign colleagues differ greatly. According to foreign doctors, the risks from coronavirus disease for both pregnant women and those who are breastfeeding significantly outweigh the risk from vaccination. The same applies to the group of autoimmune diseases. In our center there is a group of very severe cancer patients. The doctors who treat them believe that the risks of the disease outweigh the risks of vaccination, and so far our vaccination of this group of patients is very successful.”

Sergei Kharitonov: “The S-protein that appears in our body after a vaccine, be it mRNA or vector vaccines, is itself toxic and causes blood clotting disorders and much more. And against the background of various conditions, this can greatly worsen the situation. But we must understand that the dose of the vaccine is calculated and tested for safety. And the dose of S-protein that will be produced in your body during vaccination will, in most cases, be significantly less than the dose during a real coronavirus infection. It turns out that the impact of vaccination is much milder.

It follows that the risks from vaccination in the presence of almost any condition are lower than the risks from actual infection with coronavirus. The only most important exception that needs to be discussed, which all researchers write about, is a direct allergy to the components of the vaccine. If you are allergic, you should consult about the composition and whether there is a direct allergy. For everyone else, with almost any condition, even serious oncology, the vaccine will be more useful than the real coronavirus.”

Myth eight: it is dangerous to get vaccinated during a period of rising incidence

Igor Sokolov: “Among my patients, there are quite a lot of CT-confirmed coronavirus infections, which were acquired after the first injection with the Sputnik V vaccine at different times, but usually between the tenth and twentieth days. Is there such a possibility? Yes, I have. Why does it exist? Because we are catching this virus somewhere at a time when the vaccine effect has not yet unfolded and the body is unable to resist. But in most cases, this infection goes away much easier - even CT-confirmed cases did not require hospitalization.

Usually, after vaccination, a person suddenly changes his behavior style - he forgets about the mask and social distancing. And after the first injection, you are not yet protected and may well become infected. This is typical not only for Sputnik, it is typical for all vaccines.”

Myth number nine: if you get sick after the first vaccination, then you don’t need to administer the second component.

Igor Sokolov: “There are comments from the Gamaleya Institute. The tactics are very simple. If after the first injection you develop a symptomatic form of coronavirus, that is, you become ill with at least a low-grade fever, not to mention the CT image, then this is a contraindication to the second injection, and there is no need to take a second injection. If, after the first injection, you felt signs of illness, did a PCR test, and it showed a positive result, but there were no symptoms, then the second phase of the vaccination should be completed within a reasonable time. Here the criterion is only symptoms.”