Malone And Yeadon Question Vanden Bossche's Prediction Of A Killer Variant

Obviously, I’m not competent to comment, but I want to draw attention to the disagreement among these three highly regard scientists. The article I’m drawing on is here:

Dr. Robert Malone casts doubt upon theory of dangerous new COVID variants coming soon

While previously being open to the view of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche — that the vaccines will create highly virulent variants — Dr. Malone now believes that ‘escape mutants’ are coming not from the vaccinated per se but from the immunocompromised.

Here are the basics of Vanden Bossche’s hypothesis:

In a May 18 interview with Australian journalist Maria Zeee, Vanden Bossche predicted “an explosion” of this new virulent COVID variant within highly vaccinated countries “in the next two months.” And after its initial escape, “it will go very, very fast” throughout the population, primarily victimizing the vaccinated, causing enormously high numbers of hospitalizations, crashing the health care system, and bringing about “chaos.”

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According to his theory, the resulting suppression of innate immunity in the many individuals who have been injected with these experimental products — which neither eradicate nor prevent transmission of the virus — leads to “immune escape.”

This concept proposes that vaccinated people will continue to be infected with and shed the virus, which due to the “pressure” exerted by experimental COVID-19 vaccines will accumulate large numbers of mutations, in turn creating variants that are far more virulent and can no longer be controlled by the vaccines.

In addition, Vanden Bossche hypothesizes that the vaccinated themselves will be particularly vulnerable to these dangerous variants since the specific antibodies these millions of people have acquired to combat the original COVID-19 virus will compete with and weaken their natural immunity while providing no protection against these new highly virulent and infectious variants.

As I understand Malone, he’s not exactly issuing a flat contradiction of Vanden Bossche. He’s suggesting that developing research is showing that people who are immuno-compromised—both injected and uninjected—are the population group that is causing the rise of new variants. Now, importantly, that includes some people—how many is hard to say for sure—whose immune systems are damaged by the injections. However, according to Malone, not everyone who is injected is harmed to the same degree, including with regard to their immune systems. So, it appears that Malone is offering a more “nuanced” version of Vanden Bossche’s hypothesis.

However, Dr. Malone told a Texas government hearing in late June that instead of the development of mutant variants being fostered in the vaccinated per se, “that those with immune deficiencies … often become chronically infected with omicron, and these appear — according to the science [in] the latest publications—to be the individuals that are disproportionately driving the development of the escape mutants.”

“So, I’ve been wrong [and] Geert Vanden Bossche has been wrong,” the mRNA technology pioneer said. “It’s not happening necessarily in all of us because we’ve been vaccinated or have been previously infected. It appears that the evolution is happening in people who are immunocompromised in some way so that they become chronically infected or reinfected with omicron.”

This being said, “what we’re seeing is in the immunosuppressed, they become chronically infected and those are the people that seem to be generating the escape mutants.”

Since the injections can cause damage to the immune system, avoiding the injections—especially multiple injections of “boosts”—remains the best approach in order to avoid chronic infection. Those are the people at most risk, according to Malone:

Nevertheless, Malone emphasized that the vaccines themselves cause damage to the immune system, leaving their recipients with greater vulnerability to the virus.

“The multiply-jabbed are developing a general immunodeficiency in both B and T responses against omicron,” he said. “It’s the highly vaccinated that are getting repeatedly infected by the omicron, and chronically infected by omicron.”

So, again, this appears to be in the nature of a nuanced version of Vanden Bossche’s view. The article goes on to present Vanden Bossche’s response as well as some criticisms of his work—basically, that he’s relying on very edgy research that needs further verification, if I can put it like that.

The article closes with some quotes from Micheal Yeadon, the former Pfizer VP, who also cautions that Vanden Bossche may be pushing beyond the evidence:

In addition, former Pfizer vice president and chief science officer Dr. Michael Yeadon told LifeSiteNews in June that he is “a bit skeptical” of Vanden Bossche’s approach. Contradicting the Belgian researcher’s initial paper around the same time last year, Yeadon co-authored an article explaining the evolutionary tendency of such viruses causes them “to become less deadly and more transmissible” over time.

This—the common view that the evolutionary tendency toward “less deadly but more transmissible” will hold—contradicts Vanden Bossche’s prediction of a coming Killer Covid variant.

“I also don’t accept that the low percentage changes between one variant and another is a plausible difference enough to fool our immune systems that they’re under attack from a virus we’ve not seen before [allowing ‘immune escape’],” the British national explained.

Yeadon also pointed out a seeming lack of evidence for highly virulent variants, underscoring that thus far “there’s little question that the infected and recovered don’t get clinically ill even if exposed to a new variant.”

Regardless, the former pharmaceutical executive later commented that “Geert and I are on the same side,” and that he very much appreciates Vanden Bossche’s “battling for early treatments and exposing bad science on the part of Fauci and others.”

So, something to keep an eye on.