new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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Half of Adults Infected in Latest COVID-19 Outbreak Were Fully Vaccinated: Israeli Official
By Jack Phillips June 25, 2021 Updated: June 25, 2021
About 90 percent of new COVID-19 infections in Israel were caused by the CCP virus’s Delta variant, officials said, while adding that about half of the adults infected in the recent outbreak were fully vaccinated.
Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel for the Israeli government, in announcing the finding on Friday, said that the country might end up implementing another lockdown after opening up earlier this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The fully vaccinated individuals were inoculated with the Pfizer COVID-19 shot commonly used in Israel.
“The entrance of the delta variant has changed the transition dynamics,” he noted, referring to the B.1.617.2 strain of COVID-19 that has now been detected in more than 70 countries. COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, otherwise known as the novel coronavirus.
New cases of the virus rose to more than 200 on Thursday, from around 10 per day in most of June, officials said.
And on Friday, Israeli authorities told residents that they must again have to wear masks again indoors, reported Reuters.
The health ministry reimposed the mask requirement for all indoor settings except the home, and said it was also recommending masks be worn at large outdoor gatherings, specifically mentioning gay pride events taking place around Israel this weekend.
Some 55 percent of Israel’s 9.3 million population have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, officials said. Eligibility was extended to 12- to 15-year-olds in May.
“Our goal at the moment, first and foremost, is to safeguard the citizens of Israel from the Delta variant that is running amok in the world,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday, reported the WSJ.
The reimposition of the country’s mask mandate and potentially a new lockdown is sure to prompt questions about the general effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines—and amid reports of so-called “breakthrough” cases in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, for example, nearly 4,000 fully vaccinated people in Massachusetts tested positive for the CCP virus, according to health officials in the state.
“We’re learning that many of the breakthrough infections are asymptomatic or they’re very mild and brief in duration,” said Boston University infectious diseases specialist Davidson Hamer, the Boston Herald reported. “The viral load is not very high.”
“Breakthroughs are expected, and we need to better understand who’s at risk and whether people who have a breakthrough can transmit the virus to others,” Hamer said. “In some cases, they’ll be shedding such low levels of the virus and won’t be transmitting to others.”
And on April 30, the CDC reported that some 10,626 breakthrough cases were reported in 46 states and territories.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says on its website that COVID-19 vaccines should work against the Delta strain as well as other COVID-19 variants.
However, the U.N. agency warned that “changes or mutations in the virus should not make vaccines completely ineffective,” adding that if the “vaccines prove to be less effective against one or more variants, it will be possible to change the composition of the vaccines to protect against these variants.”
The Epoch Times has contacted Pfizer for comment.
People who study such things in vitro say that the Pfizer vaccine provides partial protection against SARS-Cov2 infection. However, this article implies that there is NO real-world protection against infection. If about half of the population of Israel is vaccinated and half of the infected were fully vaccinated, then fully-vaccinated people are getting infected at the same rate as the unvaccinated.
What the article doesn't quantify is how aggressive the
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THANKS! for the post Signy.
It's also not clear to me what Israel's masking rules are, and what kind of masks they use.
In the US, it's recommended that unvax people wear masks (though not necessarily N95, which doesn't seem protective for the wearer) but it's OK for vax people to go without.
If, for example, Israel uses N95 and says unvax people must(should) wear them but vax people can go without, then vax people would be far more exposed.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION THE EPOCH TIMES LEFT OUT
The Epoch Times article, while linking the WSJ reporting, leaves out this information the WSJ contained: Children under 16, most of whom haven’t been vaccinated, accounted for about half of those infected, he said. https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccinated-people-account-for-half-of-new
-covid-19-delta-cases-in-israeli-outbreak-11624624326
WHAT DOES 'EFFECTIVENESS' MEAN? ie WHAT IS THE ENDPOINT?
Also, I swear reporting is deliberately fudged. Originally when vaxs were being developed, the study/ research endpoint measure of 'effectiveness' was severe disease and hospitalizations. But that wasn't made explicit in the reporting when ~95% figures were being quoted. It was left up to the imagination of the readers that they meant against infection, which all other vaxs seem to use as their endpoint, rather than the real endpoint of severe infections/ hospitalizations.
When it because apparent that the vaxs protected against infection, the reported measure was gradually shifted to explicitly state infections.
Now that the Delta variant is in the US, the reporting is once again either not being reported, or vague.
"Fauci says indications are that the COVID-19 vaccines remain effective against the variant."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/delta-variant-now-responsible-for-on
e-in-five-u-s-coronavirus-infections-01624398668
"There was a study that came out recently that showed that individuals that had received one dose of the Pfizer vaccine had about 33-percent protection level against the Delta variant. That number went up significantly after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine to about 88-percent ..."
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/verify/verify-does-the-pfize
r-vaccine-protect-from-the-delta-covid-variant/522-e7cb98f1-0c88-4ac7-ab46-608b036f1905
"our vaccine being very effective, around 90 percent, in preventing the coronavirus disease"
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/health-trends/pfizer-says-cov
id-vaccine-highly-effective-against-delta-variant-7083131.html
"The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine offered better protection against the Delta variant compared to the Oxford-AstraZeneca preventive, known as Covishield in India."
https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/pfizer-biontech-astrazeneca-covid-1
9-vaccines-provide-protection-against-delta-variant-lancet-study-819924/
NOTE: All of the news items I've seen about Pfizer 'effectiveness' against the delta variant indicated their news came from a Lancet study, but none provide any links to the article.
So I went to The Lancet, and found this:
June 14, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC (variant of concern) in Scotland ...
hospitalization endpoint
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)013
58-1/fulltext
However, since news agencies often get advance copies from publications, it's not clear if this is the study the recent news times refer to, or if there's a newer unpublished study.
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Quote:Already covered in great detail by Dr. Chris Martenson many months ago. Aside from the fact that the epidemic started in Wuhan, site of a virus research lab which was studying EXACTLY bat-sourced SARS viruses for gain of function, the presence of parts of spike protein which only appear is other viruses genomically far far away from the virus in question tips the odds in favor of manmade.
]Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not sure if this covered here already.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/double-cgg-and-covid-wsj-oped.438079/
#:~:text=The%20presence%20of%20the%20double%20CGG%20seque
nce%20is,that%20the%20virus%20was%20developed%20in%20a%20laboratory.
Double cgg genetic sequence only found in Gain-Of-Function research, never found in nature.
Wuhan demanded that NIH in USA delete from their database the fact that this genetic sequence was in the Wuhan Flu covid.
Many pharma and bio research labs farm out (subcontract) the high-volume, repetitive work (like genomic sequencing or drug discovery) to China.
If the Wuhan lab was doing gain of function research for USA entity, there would be grant proposals and RFQs and bids and contracts and regular reports and all of that paperwork. When the WHO "investigated" the lab and proclaimed it clean, I doubt they went into the files and accounts to see where money was coming from.
By now, most of the records would have been destroyed.
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Quote:The Spike protiens appear in nature, in other viruses, right?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Already covered in great detail by Dr. Chris Martenson many months ago. Aside from the fact that the epidemic started in Wuhan, site of a virus research lab which was studying EXACTLY bat-sourced SARS viruses for gain of function, the presence of parts of spike protein which only appear is other viruses genomically far far away from the virus in question tips the odds in favor of manmade.
]Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not sure if this covered here already.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/double-cgg-a
nd-covid-wsj-oped.438079/#:~:text=The%20pres
ence%20of%20the%20double%20CGG%20seque
nce%20is,that%20the%20virus%20was%20deve
loped%20in%20a%20laboratory.
Double cgg genetic sequence only found in Gain-Of-Function research, never found in nature.
Wuhan demanded that NIH in USA delete from their database the fact that this genetic sequence was in the Wuhan Flu covid.
Bats appear in nature, right?
Those old pieces of info have nothing to do with what I posted, about the double cgg sequence NEVER FOUND IN NATURE, and ONLY USED IN GAIN-OF-FUNCTION research.
If you have something pertinent to comment, try again.
Has the double cgg sequence already been posted in this thread?
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Oh, fwiw, there's a new variant that's even worse than Delta, colloquially called the Delta+ variant.
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JSF: Here is the origianlpost which I believe addresses your point
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity, thinks that some researchers have found the "smoking gun" that points to this virus being lab-modified. There is a 12-nucleotide insert in the spike protein which does not appear in ANY other near-relation coronavirus which makes this virus much more efficient at infecting cells ("gain of function").
While gain of function research was being done on bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab, it was actually being FUNDED by Fauci's group.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63473&p=31
I would have to listen to the whole video again to make sure that we're both talking about the exact same genomic sequence, but in this video this sequence makes the fusion of virus to human cell much, much more efficient.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Oh, fwiw, there's a new variant that's even worse than Delta, colloquially called the Delta+ variant.
Delta+ you say?
Sounds Double+ Ungood.
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Oh, btw Signy, this is how scrambled/ devious the reporting can be.
In several places I read that Israel claimed a 80% vaccination rate. But that's only among adults. So articles claiming 80% vaccination are suspect right off.
Here's some more scrambled reporting.
Quote:What does that mean, exactly? It certainly doesn't mean this, quoted from the same article!
... more than 50% of COVID-19 cases from the Delta variant were the breakthrough infections ...
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/covid-
19-israel-says-delta-variant-infecting-vaccinated-people-mask-rule-reintroduced.html
Quote:That's a basic misunderstanding of simple math!
it reported a Delta variant surge that infected nearly 50 percent of the country’s vaccinated population.
Quote:
As of June 24, about 57% of Israel's population was fully vaccinated, according to John Hopkins University data.
An analysis by UK health officials found that two doses of Pfizer's vaccine were 88% effective (what does that mean?) against Delta, while a single shot was just 33% effective. That's compared to 95% efficacy against the original strain, with 52% after one shot.
In the UK, where the Delta variant makes up more than 90% of cases, 26 of 73 total deaths associated with Delta were among people who had been fully vaccinated, according to The Telegraph.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/israel-says-the-delta-variant
-is-infecting-vaccinated-people-as-many-as-50percent-of-cases-but-they-are-less-severe/ar-AALoer5
Every time UNLINKED, scattered, incomplete numbers are reported, it's a red flag. SOMEBODY knows what ALL the numbers are!
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Nobody should be giving this vaccination to children.
Horrible, horrible parenting.
Kids can make a decision if they want their wieners cut off at 5 years old, but they have no agency to refuse a jab in the arm and to be a Big Pharma test subject?
Clown world.
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Quote:Maybe you are forgetting the Religion that they follow, that Fauci has spent his entire career failing at, the template for this type of Rabbit Hole.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Oh, fwiw, there's a new variant that's even worse than Delta, colloquially called the Delta+ variant.
Delta+ you say?
Sounds Double+ Ungood.
When the "AIDS Virus" which symptoms paralleled Drug addiction in America and wealthy Europe failed to materialize in Africa, which the AIDS Religion foretold would happen, They proclaimed that in Africa, this same "AIDS Virus" with symptoms paralleling starvation, where all of the population was starving.
Remember? They needed to come up with an excuse for this logic fail, so they called it "Strain B" which only existed in the delusions of the Africans, and Strain A was the one which only existed in the minds of the nations with rampant Drug Abuse.
So now that Fauci has unleashed the covid upon the world, the more Super-Dooper Uber fantastic Great versions shall be called "Strains" or "variants."
The worst versions are scheduled for release and Lockdowns in 2022 and 2024, so those Elections can be stolen as well, which was the entire purpose of Fauci unleasing it in time for 2020.
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