Geert Vanden Bossche analysis of COVID-19 Evolutionary dynamics
This recent white paper has been painstakingly created over the past month as Geert has taken a deep dive into the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is a 45 page document and over the next few weeks I plan to analyse and hopefully accurately simplify some of these concepts.
The main points to highlight are
Mass vaccination is causing immune pressure on the virus making it more infectious and eventually more virulent
High non-neutralising antibodies keeps the spike protein in an open position and increases the infectivity for individuals who are vaccinated
The pandemic is not over
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I don't see why the virus cares about virulence. It only cares about survival which is what is what selects infectiousness. Virulence tends to drive down survival of the virus so virulence should tend to be selected against.
Watching the video, around 35 minutes in, curious how Omicron emerged from mutation in vaccinated individuals when Omicron forked from the original strain, seemingly before vaccines were available? Not that I'm not wondering how Omicron suddenly emerged in a worldwide pack of variants long mutated past the original Wuhan strain without components of the existing variants. Or that, as Geert has taught us, vaccinating into a pandemic with a leaky vaccine leads to vaccine escaping variants.