Researchers Warn Lifting Covid Restrictions Could Create New Vaccine-Resistant Strains

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Researchers are warning that easing Covid-19 restrictions early could lead to the formation of vaccine-resistant virus strains and new variants because of low vaccination rates particularly amongst children.

The researchers from from the University of East Anglia and Earlham Institute fear that any new variants could be more virulent, more vaccine resistant and more dangerous for children and vulnerable groups.

They believe that the “new strains may evolve with higher transmissibility in children, and vaccinating children may become necessary to control the emergence of new variants.” 

RT reports: The article, published by the University of East Anglia and Earlham Institute on Tuesday, argues that easing coronavirus restrictions may lead to more aggressive mutations developing that are resistant to vaccines. 

“Relaxing restrictions boosts transmission and allows the virus population to expand, which enhances its adaptive evolutionary potential and increases the risk of vaccine-resistant strains emerging by a process known as antigenic drift,” the researchers stated.

The scientists asserted that humanity is in an “arms race” against the coronavirus, which is fought with vaccines, technology and behavioral change. However, they warned that the virus can always adapt.

The risk of new variants developing remains high given that the global vaccination rate is unequal, according to the scientists. Figures from Our World in Data suggest that under 14% of people globally are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

The researchers identified another obstacle that could lead to new variants, the fact that not all age groups are eligible for inoculation against the coronavirus. Several countries, like the UK, are yet to roll out a wide-scale vaccination campaign for minors.

The researchers theorized that “new strains may evolve with higher transmissibility in children, and vaccinating children may become necessary to control the emergence of new variants.” 

Ireland is the latest European country to roll out vaccines for adolescents as young as 12, joining France and Denmark. 

The study echoes the concerns from over 100 medical professionals, who co-signed a letter earlier in July to the UK government advising against easing England’s lockdown measures. The signatories argued that abandoning all Covid-19 restrictions abruptly in England “provides fertile grounds for the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants” and that schools could become a hotbed for transmission.

A June study, published in the science journal ‘Nature’, found that the Delta variant, a mutant strain of the coronavirus, diminished the efficacy of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines. The findings showed that one dose of either of the two barely produced any antibodies and was only about 10% effective. However, the vaccines were more effective against the older Alpha variant. Two doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer yielded a much higher efficacy against Delta at 60% and 88%, respectively. 

16 Comments

    • The CUA was created for and by the HIIGHLANDS Trust . And established by former nazi s that America imported after the war .

  1. This is total BS. There are entire organizations that are filled with nuevo riche billionaires from profits from experimental vaccines who don’t give a crap what happens to our children. I know many people that had COVID and were fine after 1 week. I personally know NO ONE who has died with complications from COVID. One is a relative who is 100 lbs. overweight, smokes 2 packs of Marlboro Reds a day, has hypertension, high BP and drinks whiskey all the time. He is 62 YO and was over COVID in a week and a half. His girlfriend attended to him every day for a week and never caught it. My 17 yo got it 2 weeks ago. She is fine! She had a backache, vomited a few times, lost taste and smell and is now on the mend. Don’t believe the BS lies online. If you are healthy, unvaccinated and get it, don’t freak out. Take D3, C, Quercetin and Zinc and your body will beat this. If you have comorbidities like COPD or diabetes, then you might want to consider the vaccine. If you have leukemia or other cancer, you should probably get the vaccine. Pro choice. DON’T BELIEVE THE LIES, BELIEVE YOUR EYES!

  2. Rheresa May turn into a tornado and summer may turn into winter and pigs may fly over the moon Is that research worthy of a 20 thousand pound grant to be agreeable?

  3. The illuminati isnt going to take their feet off the gas pedal until society hits chaos, then “we” will accept the new world one world gov and religion they wanted before they created the chaos in the first place. Then they can walk as kings of the earth with the antichrist. Beware of new age “christianity” and false christs. The main stream churches will deceive the sheep to accept the antichrist.

    • They want their nanotech satanic 666 vax in as many people before the chaos hits as possible. Im sure it will be part of the great coming deception in the sky

    • “All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World. – George Washington

  4. BS! They have to keep you in fear to stay in control.

    It’s a bioweapon. The virus created for the vaccine.

    • https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d0b394209845b0c6c06ffe8737f3107a6620ac5496712a58590a9bd738336378.jpg
      Countries on the North American and European continents have a death ‘per population over 65’ rate of almost an order of magnitude larger than the Asian and Australian continents because their populations already have herd immunity from an earlier version of the Covid virus. Between the previous infections, the vaccine, and the developing treatment protocols; the Covid virus pandemic is ending. Already we have heard about the “new” increases of variant infections in India, the UK, and here in the US; without any significant increase in the proportion of deaths. The vaccine that Trump has managed to get produced for the people over 50 in less than a year has clearly saved close to 600,000 lives so far, just in the US alone. The virus will always be with us, just like the flu and many other potentially deadly diseases. And in the future, there will be variants that are more deadly than previous versions, just like the flu. And so old people, with weakening immune systems, will continue to take updated versions of the vaccine while the younger people simply rely on their herd immunity to shake off the illness; just like the flu. President Trump provided the Vaccine in early November. Before the vaccine could be distributed on a large scale by early January 2021, about 3,500 Americans were dying every day. By the middle of April average daily deaths were less than 800 a day. And by the end of July, average daily deaths are now down to less than 250 a day. The pandemic has been severely blunted and is finishing its lifespan, just like the Spanish flu did back in 1918. Thank you President Trump.

  5. God has said “no” to the vaccination. So I will never do it. Why he hasn’t told everyone this, i don’t know.

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