Comparative immunity update

High infection rates in UK, going down in US

Lower functional immunity in our population than most other
Western European countries

Early vaccine roll out

AstraZeneca protects slightly less well than Pfizer against infection and transmission, particularly delta variant

Slightly lower overall vaccination coverage, particularly vaccinating teenagers

Fewer social restrictions

High rates of testing

UK, ONS

Two vaccine doses give similar protection as previous infection

Two doses of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca

Provided a similar level of protection as having had a previous natural infection of coronavirus

During delta variant times

Vaccination reduced the risk of testing positive,

both when the alpha variant was dominant in the UK (1 December 2020 to 16 May 2021)

and when the delta variant was dominant (17 May to 14 August 2021)

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech

Reduced the risk of testing positive by 73% in the delta period

Two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca

Reduced the risk of testing positive by 62% in the delta period

Two vaccination doses, more effective than one at preventing symptomatic infection in both periods.

Three weeks after vaccination

Two doses always more protective than one

(75% v 58%)

Inconsistent with covid symptom study

Two doses of the Pfizer

87% protection against infection

Two doses of the AstraZeneca

71% protection against infection

Natural infection alone

Only gave 65% protection against catching it again

Israeli data consistent with ONS but inconsistent with covid symptom study

Protection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is similar to that of BNT162b2 vaccine protection: A three-month nationwide experience from Israel

Vaccination was highly effective

Estimated efficacy for documented infection of 92·8%
Hospitalization 94·2%
Severe illness 94·4%
Death 93·7%

Protection from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection

Estimated efficacy for documented infection of 94·8%
Hospitalization 94·1%
Severe illness 96·4%

All deaths registered in the week to 8 October

COVID-19 deaths fall in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland
Up in Wales

Total UK deaths in the week, 12,490

14.7% above the average in 2015 to 2019

820 involved the coronavirus (COVID-19)

154 fewer than the previous week

Deaths involving COVID-19, 1 in 15 deaths (6.6%).

UK total deaths include non-residents.

1 million people in UK countries had COVID-19 in the latest week

1.63% in England (1 in 60 people)
One in 70 people the week before

2.18% in Wales (1 in 45 people)
One in 55 people the week before

0.82% in Northern Ireland (1 in 120 people)
One in 130 people the week before

1.26% in Scotland (1 in 80 people)
One in 60 people the week before

Greg and Peter
Hello John, Just to let you know that one of my posts referring to your video on aspiration has been pulled from LinkedIn. This is the first time that one of my posts has been pulled and I have put out some pretty controversial posts on other subjects.

Feedback from vaccine manufacturers

[markmiller]

We're living in scary times for those of us old enough to remember when you could argue about clinical data without being censored for your opinions. Wow.

[ptimal]

The fact that most govs still haven't acknowledged natural infection as good enough, is enough to make me wary of the whole damn thing. There's no excuse.

[liats]

I have a question. How do they determine efficacy of the vaccines over 90% comparing to natural infection if they have no idea if the vaccinated had been infected previously assimptomatically? We all know now that antibodies counts decrease overtime, however T and B cells still provide immunity. So how can they claim that the vaccines are 90% effective if they had not tested all those vaccinated for previous infection. What if the high rates of protection are not due to vaccinations, but to previous asymptomatic infection? If the person is very healthy, had not been sick in years, got vaccinated due to the requirements, still very healthy and not been sick, can we really attribute this to the vaccine?

[marco]

I am a scientist (physics) and it was a pleasure to listen to your guest. Very intersting stuff and I also took a look at some of his papers. These are dark times when the effort to make serious science accessible to general public gets censored.

[Bluwonder]

I wouldn't congratulate Australia just yet. We're literally losing our rights to participate in society and work jobs if we don't take a shot. You wonder why uptake is high? It's because the government is giving people no choice in the matter. My business is allowed 10 people indoors at a time. May as well sell the restaurant at this rate (it's takeaway only!!).

[kimberlyperrotis]

All censorship of science worries me. I wonder if “risk management” of medical/science content on the part of social media platforms is at the root of this case. Risk management is the use of specialist attorneys to minimize the risk of anything that might hurt corporate profits, mostly third-party liability, but also controversy, loss of reputation, etc. It doesn’t matter to these specialists how good the science is, the only thing that matters is their guesses of what could be negatively perceived, misused, misinterpreted, distorted, etc. We are rarely allowed to think for ourselves these days, RM has taken over corporate culture, which is about profit only. They don’t credit us non-lawyers with the ability to use our own critical thinking abilities.

[joemurphy]

LinkedIn completely froze my account because I was posting about the FLCCC Alliance. Censorship is in full force by big tech. Early treatments and natural immunity should account for something.

[mikethetravelguy]

efficacy was originally defined as eliminating symptomatic illness, using that definition the change is HUGE.

[steenkigerrider]

"...good science being censored"
Welcome to the brave new world of political correct science, Dr. Campbell.

[christer]

It is a frightening development how science get censored when it doesn't align correctly with ...

[vector]

One confusing thing about this aspiration issue is why a company like Moderna wouldn't speak up about this possibility when countries are halting use of their product.

[joebaird]

The well-being survey lets us see how miserable everyone is which is why the suicide rate is rocketing. No one is talking about this though but that adds to the excess deaths.

[RestoreJustice]

Now do a study to determine how long natural immunity lasts compared to the longevity of the vaccine!

[the_fitness_doc]

Thanks Dr Campbell for your continual dedication to science. You don’t take sides and just present the facts in an unbiased way which is great to see in the YouTube community. You’re a legend mate and we all appreciate you so much :)

[kidsteach]

3:19 "two vaccine doses give similar protection as previous infection" but, it seems, previous infection does not give similar protection as two vaccine doses...at least for your covid passport. strange. Very strange. Equality now has "vector" properties of direction.

[markm]

The thing about censorship is that people never care until they start censoring something that you agree with. Censorship has been going on for years now. I’m willing to bet that most who are complaining about censorship now where dead silent in the past on censorship.

[terryernest]

I'd like to see a graph of heart & stroke since the vaccines have been interduce ...

[charliefoxtrotsky]

Wide-spread testing of people who are not specifically coming to their doctor due to symptoms is not something that is done with any other disease.
How many cases of influenza are there in any country during any given year?
Well, we have no idea. No country has any idea whatsoever because there has never been wide-spread testing of the population.
All of those who contract influenza but are asymptomatic are never found and thus never counted.
The idea of wide-spread testing for the current virus was due to the idea that we could then quarantine those people to prevent further spread.
Does anyone think that plan has been successful? If not, then why do wide-spread testing?
Are the infected who are asymptomatic, infectious? I don't know the answer to that. Has it been determined? Are you certain?
How much "information" is medical and scientific and how much is political?
We know how many influenza "cases" there are every year in any given country because the patients themselves seek medical help due to symptoms.
We know how many influenza deaths there are every year (and all of these deaths are FROM influenza not WITH influenza)
We have no idea whatsoever (any country) how many people were actually infected with influenza during any given year. No idea at all.
This current virus is the single only respiratory virus that has ever been tabulated in this

[johnfitzgerald]

Just want to echo the comments articulated so well…….Keep up the great work…..your time is so valuable and the truth shines through……

[Homunculas]

When comparing to sets of contradictory data, It's not necessarily a question of one being right and one wrong, there's also a chance that both data sets are wrong.