Geert Vanden Bossche has been on a mission to raise awareness of why healthy children should not receive COVID-19 vaccines
- It is primarily the unvaccinated children and adults who can generate herd immunity
- Herd immunity is defined as when a percentage of the population becomes immune to a disease-either through a previous infection or vaccination-which acts to stop or slow down the spread
- Vaccines have never significantly contributed to ending influenza pandemics in the past
- The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1 virus, began in March 1918 and ended in the summer of 1919 without the use of any vaccines
Protecting the Innate Immune System
- The most important reason why children should not receive a COVID-19 vaccine is to protect their innate immune system from being compromised
- Children are equipped with special antibodies called innate antibodies which only last for some time during childhood and then disappear
- In a 2009 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists found that the innate immune cells could recognize a memory of their previous activation and thus "respond more easily and effectively to the next call for activation"
- When children are administered the vaccine, the antibodies induced by the vaccine will outcompete the innate antibodies in binding with the virus
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