COVID largely kills people by provoking an immune over-response which results in the body damaging its own tissues. There were problems with using conventional vaccines for SARS, another similar coronaviral disease, where a dose of the viral spike proteins without a working virus would also result in an immune over-response. The intent of using an mRNA or viral vector vaccine is to provide a long, slow exposure to the antigen presented by those spike proteins.
The problem is, this is the same method you'd use to disarm other immune over-responses, such as peanut allergies. As a result the virus wouldn't kill people by causing the reaction, but doesn't necessarily mean the virus would be gotten rid of. This would explain why we're seeing data showing higher viral loads in "fully vaccinated" individuals compared to the unvaccinated.
I'm concerned that we're now going to see further mutations in the virus that wind up killing people in ways other than that reaction, just by overwhelming people's systems.
COVID largely kills people by provoking an immune over-response which results in the body damaging its own tissues. There were problems with using conventional vaccines for SARS, another similar coronaviral disease, where a dose of the viral spike proteins without a working virus would also result in an immune over-response. The intent of using an mRNA or viral vector vaccine is to provide a long, slow exposure to the antigen presented by those spike proteins.
The problem is, this is the same method you'd use to disarm other immune over-responses, such as peanut allergies. As a result the virus wouldn't kill people by causing the reaction, but doesn't necessarily mean the virus would be gotten rid of. This would explain why we're seeing data showing higher viral loads in "fully vaccinated" individuals compared to the unvaccinated.
I'm concerned that we're now going to see further mutations in the virus that wind up killing people in ways other than that reaction, just by overwhelming people's systems.
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