Why Indiscriminate Mass Vaccination Has Worsened the Pandemic
SARS-CoV-2 Readily Mutates and Thrives in the Vaccinated
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
A principle of infectious diseases is “antimicrobial stewardship” which involves choosing the right antibiotic for the right patient and never over-prescribing or blanket covering patients who don’t need treatment. Another principle is “narrowing the spectrum” of a drug once the organism is identified by culture or other methods. These fundamental approaches to the use of antibiotics work to limit the problem of bacterial resistance and the development of “superbugs.” Every year hospitals each produce their antibiogram or report of their common infections encountered and what antibiotics either are effective (organism is sensitive) or ineffective (organism is resistant). In the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic these principles have been applied to the use of monoclonal antibodies and the process explains why various EUA products (e.g., bamlanivimab) were pulled from the market when they were understood to be no longer effective at neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. This entire thought process has been thrown out the window for COVID-19 vaccines. For 18 months the ancestral strain Wuhan Institute of Virology Spike protein was the featured antigen for Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen, AstraZeneca, and Novavax vaccines. Within a few months, there was mounting evidence that SARS-CoV-2 easily mutated to escape the reach of antibodies generated by the vaccines which would apply to serious invasive illness (IgG and IgM). Because the COVID-19 vaccines have never been demonstrated to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 in the nasopharynx, the only theoretical benefit would be for systemic disease. It has now become apparent that nature has the upper hand over the vaccine manufacturers as SARS-CoV-2 has far greater alacrity. Because replication can allow changes in genetic code that rapidly allow continued survival, SARS-CoV-2 enjoys a library of ~28k mutations of which ~4.5K are in the receptor binding domain of the Spike protein or the tip of the spear.
Wang and colleagues using detailed modeling techniques of the mutations prevalent in the more intensely vaccinated countries has shown indeed mass vaccination is backfiring and fueling more viral resistance to the limited antibody library that could be generated by the vaccines.[i] Wang’s analysis suggests that future vaccine development against SARS-CoV-2 is hopeless. The virus is simply too nimble and can manipulate the “binding free energy” between the RBD and its human target the ACE2 receptor. This means the more vaccinations are delivered the greater the number of mutant stains and the longer the virus will propagate and extend the pandemic. Thus, a key step in ending the pandemic will be termination of mass vaccination. The virus doesn’t stop until mankind stops.
[i] Wang R, Chen J, Hozumi Y, Yin C, Wei GW. Emerging Vaccine-Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Variants. ACS Infect Dis. 2022 Mar 11;8(3):546-556. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00557. Epub 2022 Feb 8. PMID: 35133792; PMCID: PMC8848511.
Dr. McCullough, I think you have been and continue to be the leading medical light during this dark sordid episode of the past 3 years. I especially valued your high quality literature review on a recent High Wire interview with Del Bigtree. If I were still in medical education responsible for the training of Family Practice residents in a teaching hospital (as I was before being "summarily terminated" in 2016 for opposing my institution's Flu vax mandate) then I would require each and every post grad MD to listen to your talks and read your work. Doctors might thus finally get their dumb heads out of the sand and start practicing medicine again. Thank you.
Just like Geert Vanden Bossche predicted. Thank you Dr. McCullough for always making things understandable.