Herd immunity not achievable with mRNA Shots, says Professor Andrew Pollard, Oxford Vaccine Group

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I think we are in a situation here with this current variant where herd immunity is not a possibility, because it still infects vaccinated individuals. I suspect that what the virus will throw up next is a variant which is perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations. So that's even more of a reason not to be making a vaccine program around herd immunity. I don't there's anything the UK can do to stop the emergence of new variants, they're gonna happen.

If anything, we need to focus now not on what might stop new variants, because I don't think we have any facility to control that. We need to focus on thinking about how do we prevent people dying or going to hospital. I think this is an enormously important thing to be thinking about today, because this week there'll be about 65.000 deaths in the world. We have now over 4 billions doses of the vaccine globally and that is now enough doses to prevent almost all of those deaths, and yet they are continuing.

So when you're thinking about what the UK strategy should be around variants, I don't think there's anything that we can do, but what we can do is play a more active role in the global imperative, which is to stop people dying and that means making sure doses are going to the right people.

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The vaccines do no prevent infection or transmission. This means that herd immunity through vaccination is impossible. Because it is impossible, it should not be a goal.

Because the vaccines are leaky and narrow, and we have a mutating pathogen, large scale use of the vaccines such as in masss vaccination, is guaranteed to lead to immune escape, which is the same as vaccine resistance. This is comparable to antibiotic resistance, caused by overuse of antibiotics. The solution to this problem is to VACCINATE AS FEW PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, not as many as possible.

Also we now know that the vaccines provide very dubious protection and the protection wanes incredibly fast, especially in the high risk, who are most at need of protection. So I'm not sure that there is even 1 person for who vaccination is the best option, especially considering the danger of the vaccines.

On to the real goal, which should be avoiding unnecessary disease and death, and therefore also overflowing of hospitals. The second part of this goal should be to achieve this goal with minimal social costs and risks. Luckily, this can be easily done using the following integral set of measures:
1. Adequate ventilation, since all respiratory infection are mainly transmitted in badly ventilated dry indoor air.
2. Optimal humidity of the air (between 40% and 60%)
3. Adequate vitamin D blood levels. Vitamin D is a crucial immune modulator and also crucial for loads of other bodily processes. Blood levels should be above 50 ng/ml.
4. Early intensive combination treatment, such as with zinc and hydroxychloroquine/quercetine/EGCG, high doses of all vitamins (A through E), ivermectin, melatonin (not only a sleep hormone but also a fantastic anti-oxidant), NAC, fluvoxamine/fluoxetine, et cetera. Also treatments such as nasal irrigation, mouth wash and gargling with safe antiseptic fluid work great.
5. Healthy diet and lifestyle. It is absolutely clear that the people who are most at risk for COVID19 and most other chronic diseases, are those who eat junk food, don't get adequate sleep, don't move enough and who have chronic stress.
6. Voluntary focused protection of the high risk group, such as through prophylactic use of safe, well-tolerated medications and making sure these people's body's are replete with all essential vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids.
7. Restoring adequate health care capacity