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Vaccines Work - for Smallpox and Measles
'I hope I'm wrong this time, but I think by March, April, & May, we will have a fully vaccine-resistant variant..." according to Dr. Mark Dybul, an immunologist trained under Anthony Fauci.'
thedesertreview.com/opinion/column… via @DesertReview

'...in terms of increased infections and a ticking up of hospitalizations and deaths, even among vaccinated people.'

' if we look at the countries that are not vaccinated, like Nigeria, we see something remarkable. Nigeria has just 14 deaths per million people, while the United States has 2366 deaths' per million.

'Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, wrote an article in The New Yorker on this subject, "Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder than Others?"

'He weighed in on this issue, “Tenfold differences or 100-fold differences—these aren’t minor. You have to account for other factors. You can’t just wave the numbers off. It’s going to be a lesson for this pandemic and for every future pandemic.” '

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' A recent study examined the relationship between an area's vaccination rate and its COVID-19 infection rate.

The study looked at 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States and found no reduction in COVID infections associated w/ vax status.'
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

'Instead, there was a weak negative correlation, meaning the more vaccination, the more infections.

Of the "top five counties that have the highest percentage of the population fully vaccinated (99.9 to 84.3%) the CDC identifies four as 'high' transmission counties."'

'And "conversely, of the 57 counties that have been classified as 'low' transmission counties by the CDC, 26.3% (15) have the percentage of population fully vaccinated below 20%."'

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