No need for vaccines, COVID pandemic is over, says Former Vice President of Pfizer
According to an article
published in Lockdown Sceptics, Dr. Michael Yeadon wrote, “There is absolutely
no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I’ve never heard such nonsense
talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a
disease. You also don’t set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and
healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human
subjects.”
His comments come at the end of a comprehensive criticism of the Scientific Advisor Group for Emergencies (SAGE), a government agency of the U.K. tasked with advising the central government in emergencies.
SAGE has played an important
role in determining public lockdown policies in the UK, as a response to the
COVID-19 virus.
Yeadon also highlights
fundamental errors by SAGE in their presuppositions which cause their overall
conclusions to go radically awry leading to the “torturing [of] the population
for the last seven months or so.”
“ SAGE says everyone was
susceptible and only 7% have been infected. I think this is literally
unbelievable. They have ignored all precedent in the field of immunological
memory against respiratory viruses. They have either not seen or disregarded
excellent quality work from numerous, world-leading clinical immunologists
which show that around 30% of the population had prior immunity.”
“They should also have
excluded from ‘susceptible’ a large subset of the youngest children, who appear
not to become infected, probably because their immature biology means their
cells express less of the spike protein receptor, called ACE2. I have not
assumed all young children don’t participate in transmission, but believe a two
thirds value is very conservative. It’s not material anyway,” Yeadon wrote
“So SAGE is demonstrably
wrong in one really crucial variable: they assumed no prior immunity, whereas
the evidence clearly points to a value of around 30% (and nearly 40% if you
include some young children, who technically are ‘resistant’ rather than
‘immune’),” wrote Yeadon
And considering the reality
of herd immunity, when susceptibility to a virus falls this low, at around 28
to 35%, “that population can no longer support an expanding outbreak of
disease,” and thus the virus “wanes and disappears.”
“The pandemic is effectively
over and can easily be handled by a properly functioning NHS (National Health
Service). Accordingly, the country should immediately be permitted to get back
to normal life.” concludes Yeadon
