The people who think unvaccinated people are “variant factories” are asking us to believe this:
Lack of immunity creates selective pressure to escape immunity.
This is incoherent and indefensible.
I do not believe anyone believes this unless they have no training (even undergrad) in science. I do not believe anyone with any training in science who says this actually believes this.
In sum, the variants of concern didn’t evolve until vaccine trials started and every single one popped up in a location where a vaccine trial was being done.
This actually makes some surprising theological sense, in that Christianity embraced images of people due to its perception of the unification of God and man, whereas Islam saw this as idolatrous due to its view of the separation of God and man.
However, Murray has no idea what she’s talking about. Christian women covered their heads through most of history just like Muslim women and this is obvious if you just look at icons of women saints in Orthodox or Roman Catholic Christianity.
Also, the theological underpinnings of man as being made in the image of God pre-date Islam by thousands of years and that of Jesus unifying God and man pre-date it by hundreds of years.
This data does not control for the fact that the UK vaccinated high-risk people first, but this government report shows that while the delta variant became 91% of cases there were 37 deaths among vaccinated and 34 deaths among unvaccinated.
Matthew Crawford used data from how vaccines are distributed across risk groups in the UK to try to control for this. His analysis suggests that vaccines reduce death by 75%, although extreme assumptions can lower this to 50% or raise it to 90%.
Couldn’t find anything on pubmed but this preprint suggests the delta variant doesn’t have a more severe case trajectory than any cases with non-variants of concern.
So it looks like Pfizer only tested most organs for their vaccine proxy biodistribution up to 48h because it only lasted that long in the liver. But the liver had max concentrations at 8 hours whereas ovaries kept increasing up to the 48h mark.