by ‘If you are going to train a virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity, you would do exactly what they’re doing’The UK's dangerous and cavalier experiment. University of Auckland microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Newsroom: “The question is, how much worse is Delta going to get?“They are running a really quite awful experiment.”Jemma Geoghegan, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Otago, expressed concern that just over half of the UK adult population has been vaccinated and that this could encourage new vaccine resistant variants to be produced.She told Newsroom: “If you are going to train a virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity, you would do exactly what they’re doing.“You’re basically providing a training ground for the virus to overcome those selection pressures. You’re
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‘If you are going to train a virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity, you would do exactly what they’re doing’
The UK's dangerous and cavalier experiment.
University of Auckland microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Newsroom: “The question is, how much worse is Delta going to get?
“They are running a really quite awful experiment.”
Jemma Geoghegan, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Otago, expressed concern that just over half of the UK adult population has been vaccinated and that this could encourage new vaccine resistant variants to be produced.
She told Newsroom: “If you are going to train a virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity, you would do exactly what they’re doing.
“You’re basically providing a training ground for the virus to overcome those selection pressures. You’re allowing the virus to continue to spread.
“With this moderately immune population and with the Delta variant that has an R0 that’s estimated to be probably five or six, you need a threshold to be much, much, much higher than they currently have.”
The Independent
New Zealand scientists say UK’s ‘awful experiment’ on Covid will threaten the country