Hoewel n dosis de besmettelijkheid al doet dalen, blijft het wel belangrijk dat beide dosissen van een coronavaccin toegediend worden. TV Shows. The technology enables the development of universal vaccines educating the host immune system to redirect immune targeting away from canonical antigens to a widely divergent spectrum of vitally vulnerable pathogen-derived self-mimicking antigens, irrespective of MHC polymorphism. David Gorski / March 18, 2021 EnVanden Bossches alternatieve NK-vaccin bestaat nog niet. While mutations to SARS-CoV-2 would be happening regardless of any human intervention, the notion that vaccination might apply evolutionary pressure toward variants that can escape current vaccines is not untenable. In deze video verwijst vaccinoloog Isabel Leroux-Roels naar de Spaanse griep, die ook minder dodelijk werd (lees eronder voort): Vanden Bossche zegt dat hij een alternatief heeft voor de huidige coronavaccins: een NK-vaccin, gebaseerd op zogenoemde natural killer-cells. Deze sfeer is mee geschept door de experten en de media. Honderdduizenden mensen zagen zijn boodschap intussen. Skip to main content Geert Van Den Bossche He has a long list of companies and organizations he's worked with on vaccine discovery and preclinical research, including GSK, Novartis, Solvay Biologicals, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nirenberg goes further and notes that the antibody titers induced by vaccines are MUCH higher than those seen after infection, and we see hallmarks of memory responses induced by these vaccines from even a single dose, suggesting that, even though there is a decrease in neutralization by vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, that might not portend a loss in protection. Even if it were evolving resistance, once again, the answer would be to reformulate the vaccine in order to include the altered antigens, the same conclusion made when considering the possibility that B. pertussis was evolving resistance or that evolutionary drift was leading to the predominance of strains not covered by the vaccine. Since 2014, however, he has been trying (apparently unsuccessfully) to develop his so-called universal vaccine. (6/7) When presenting with first signs & symptoms, ALL MUST have free access to immune-strengthening supplements (mostly sufficient for the young & previously healthy) and early multidrug treatment (mostly required for the vulnerable & elderly). Mrz mit einem offenen Brief an die WHO gewandt. If you claim to be not antivaccine but your message is so attractive to a rabid antivaxxer and leader of the antivaccine movement like Del Bigtree that he spends an hour promoting it, you are either deluding yourself about being not antivaccine, or youre a useful idiot for the antivaccine movement, possibly both. Now, lets compare the passage above to what Andrew Wakefield wrote about MMR and vaccines: Antibiotic use has selected out multiply resistant, more dangerous, and more pathogenic strains of bacteria. Before I get to Vanden Bossches open letter and his warning to the world that mass vaccination with the current COVID-19 vaccines is likely to lead to a global catastrophe due to the proliferation of ever-more-transmissible COVID-19 variants (as if the COVID-19 pandemic itself hasnt been a global catastrophe! Vervolgens gaat hij in op hetgeen op VRTNWS en in Knack is verschenen als reactie op zijn wetenschappelijke bevindingen. Deze pagina is voor het laatst bewerkt op 23 feb 2023 om 10:56. The role of spike protein variability inT cell immunity is likely to be elucidated in experimental studies in the next few months; a priori, the enhanced repertoire of T cell epitopes makes the loss of cytotoxic activity or recognition improbable. They shall only be contradicted by science. Dr. Vanden Bossche has also taken to social media to air his concerns, and his message has been enthusiastically embraced by antivaxxers: Lets just say this. Vanden Bossche stelt het voor alsof een virus na slechts enkele mutaties al bestand kan zijn tegen een vaccin en zo erg dodelijk kan worden. De inhoud is, tenzij anders aangegeven, beschikbaar onder. Update information for Geert Vanden Bossche More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro Biography Awards Photo Gallery Filmography (by Job) Trailers and Videos Explore More Known For Compleetdenkers Self 2022 This is not all that impressive, given that Snopes could only identify two patent applications in Vanden Bossche's name both for "immunologic formulations" and both of these patents, records indicate, had their "applications terminated before publication.". As a result, I thought it worth providing this rebuttal and links to an even better rebuttal, to SBM readers in order to disseminate this information more widely. Bij sommige besmettingen kunnen NK-cellen wl specifieker te werk gaan, stipt immunoloog Herman Favoreel (Universiteit Gent) aan. Enjoy! Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. Dat punt maakte ook Otto Yang, professor Infectieziekten aan de Universiteit van California, in de krant USA Today. More recently, he set up his own website to publicize his letter: We've put together a website to gather all information, scientific documents and interviews I've posted on this public health emergency. Na enkele dagen van stilte nam Vanden Bossche vandaag zijn camera en reageerde met een video op hetgeen in de media is verschenen. The virus is now able to escape immunity (so-called: immune escape). "The underlying fallacy," Omer explained, is that a natural infection is better than a vaccine. Men draagt een verantwoordelijkheid. Ik heb een lijst van professoren die mijn bezorgdheden delen en zal deze publiceren. So, why then should there be a major concern using these vaccines to fight Covid-19? This is only going to be possible provided it escapes to the S-specific Abs that are momentarily raised in previously asymptomatically infected subjects. So its not surprising that Dr. Vanden Bossches letter reminds me of Andrew Wakefields warning about the MMR vaccine. Hoe schandalig is het brugpensioen van Marc Leemans? Een vaccin zet je immuunsysteem aan het werk, dat op zijn beurt het virus te lijf zal gaan. De Vlaamse veearts Geert Vanden Bossche pleit ervoor om alle coronavaccinaties stop te zetten. Likes. Een drietal weken geleden kwam viroloog en vaccin ontwikkelaar Geert Vanden Bossche naar buiten met een ernstige bezorgdheid omtrent de massavaccinatie tegen covid-19 die momenteel wereldwijd in ongeziene vaart aan de gang is. Ook noemt Rien Emmery Vanden Bossche wat denigrerend veearts. Sounds familiar: suboptimal immune pressure + viral variant! It is precisely this type of highly specific, high affinity Abs that current Covid-19 vaccines are inducing. There's even grift likely involved! Its been accompanied by a video interview posted towhere else?antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.s Childrens Health Defense website. Dr. Vanden Bossche has publicized his letter on Twitter: In this open letter I am appealing to the @WHO and all stakeholders involved, no matter their conviction, to immediately declare such action as THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN. The mechanism he invokes is that vaccine-produced antibodies will "outcompete" the more general defenses of the innate immune system. There is a sound scientific rationale to assume that it is possible to prime NK cells in ways for them to recognize and kill Coronaviruses at large (include all their variants) at an early stage of infection. Zowel bij de experten, bij de politiek als binnen de media zouden er dan logischerwijs evaluaties moeten volgen van hoe en waarom men zo fout was. Ten derde wijst hij erop dat de gezondheidsrisico's van Covid-19 voor gezonde kinderen, zoals ziekenhuisopname, verwaarloosbaar klein zijn en dat vaccinatie vanuit dat oogpunt voor die groep geen enkele zin heeft. Vanden Bossche's scientific argument in broad terms is that the current COVID-19 vaccines, through a mechanism analogous to antibiotic resistance, will create mutant variants of the virus that escape the protection of those vaccines. The solution to that risk is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible, thereby reducing both transmission of the virus and the number of environments in which mutations could occur. Vanden Bossche ist nach eigenen Angaben Veterinrmediziner mit einem Abschluss in Virologie. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Colloidal aspects of enteroviral infectivity in aqueous environments with special emphasis on poliovirus type 1, Factcheck: dierenarts verspreidt onjuistheden over het immuunsysteem en de coronavaccins, The Doomsday Prophecy of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geert_Vanden_Bossche&oldid=63871838. Mass vaccination will only work if the vaccine prevents or decreases transmission; i.e., if it is not leaky (although he doesnt use the term). Het onderzoek ernaar is nog zeer pril. The current monkeypox outbreak is a result of the Covid vaccinations that are connected to Covid reinfections and the related reactivation of cytotoxic t-cells, claims Dr. Vanden Bossche. A very similar mechanism may also apply to viruses, especially to viruses that can easily and rapidly mutate (which is, for example, the case with Coronaviruses); when the pressure exerted by the armys (read: populations) immune defense starts to threaten viral replication and transmission, the virus will take on another coat so that it can no longer be easily recognized and, therefore, attacked by the host immune system. Basically, its a race against evolution to get as many people as possible vaccinated before the virus can evolve resistance to the vaccine, and were fortunate that, contrary to Bossches claim, SARs-CoV-2 does not mutate very fast for an RNA virus. Please read and share: https://t.co/0Fupw9JInP #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/I24mSjpVKM, Geert Vanden Bossche (@GVDBossche) March 6, 2021. In landen als Isral en het Verenigd Koninkrijk dalen de cijfers in goede richting, in de VS en de UAE is er een lichte stijging. Geert Vanden Bossche is a scientist who published an open letter warning of global catastrophe due to deadly variants of COVID-19 selected for by mass vaccination. Not for him is the too-slow process of seeking feedback from fellow experts or publishing in the scientific literature (even on a pre-print server). Hierbij vertegenwoordigt hij standpunten die slechts door een heel kleine minderheid van wetenschappelijke experts wordt gedeeld. Knack wou mijn reactie niet publiceren, het was nochtans een eer-rovend vuilbakartikel van Rien Emmery. ", While a universal vaccine that could eradicate virtually any disease certainly sounds great, no evidence exists that such a vaccine has ever successfully been developed. He invokes the discovery of variants currently in circulation that have altered portions of the spike protein the target of COVID-19 vaccine implying that these observations lead credence to his hypothesis. As I noted when Andrew Wakefield explicitly used the example of Mareks disease to claim that a leaky vaccine to MMR would cause a global catastrophe by selecting for deadly measles variants, yes, a leaky vaccine changes the selective pressure and permits the evolution of highly virulent strains because the virus retains the ability to continue to spread among vaccinated populations, leading to the vaccine selecting for the most virulent mutations. Dit toont nogmaals de nood van open debat aan. Waar is de vrouwelijke kant van de oorlog? Het publiekelijk schofferen van wetenshappers of mensen die hun job kwijt raken of beledigd worden omdat ze zich kritisch uitspreken, zulke zaken passen niet in onze cultuur van vrije meningsuiting en open debat. Bovendien volstaan enkel de NK-cellen meestal niet, maar ze geven het immuunsysteem wel de tijd om een krachtigere respons aan te maken.. The notion that this is somehow a problem relies on the unsupported claim that a natural infection would be better equipped to kill SARS-CoV-2. #LikeMe is een Belgische muzikale jeugdserie die wordt uitgezonden sinds 2019. In an effort to sidestep this self-evident solution, Vanden Bossche seems to have made up a second mechanism to stoke fear over COVID-19 vaccines. Dat is verre van zeker op dit moment. Indien hij gelijk krijgt natuurlijk. Na de eerste Franse inval in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden verdwenen zij van het toneel. Wie is Geert Vanden Bossche? In verschillende video's op YouTube waarschuwt de Belgische wetenschapper Geert Vanden Bossche voor een ramp nog groter dan de coronacrisis zelf. The technology obviates the need for traditional adjuvants, multiple boost injections or expensive manufacturing processes and is readily compatible with intradermal or mucosal administration. Of course, the noble purpose of these Abs is to protect us against Covid-19. Vanden Bossche has been able to avoid allegations of peddling such a cure at least in the credulous anti-vaccine community because his resume legitimately includes stints at companies or initiatives involved in vaccine development, including The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is a very confused argument. Nu is het een ander verhaal. De Belgische wetenschapper Geert Vanden Bossche heeft het internet veroverd met zijn waarschuwing voor een wereldwijde ramp: de massale coronavaccinaties zouden een virusvariant kunnen creren die tegen de vaccins bestand is waardoor veel doden zouden vallen. Up to this point, at its core and leaving aside minor variations, Dr. Vanden Bossches argument about COVID-19 vaccines and COVID-19 is pretty close to exactly the same argument that Wakefield fallaciously made about MMR and measles. Hij waarschuwt met name voor de risico's van het vaccineren van kinderen met mRNA-vaccins. I have to point out that coronaviruses, in particular SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, do not mutate especially fast as RNA viruses go. How long can one ignore the problem when there is at present massive evidence that viral immune escape is now threatening humanity? The world is changing and the change is gaining speed ! Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com, Image Via Screencapture / geertvandenbossche.org. As any chicken farmer knows (or any veterinarian like Dr. Vanden Bossche should know), vaccinating against Mareks disease has population health benefits in that it prevents mass death due to the disease, even if the vaccine can allow more virulent strains to evolve. A company claiming to develop such a product is currently registered to an address identified on Yelp as his veterinary practice. Sure, we dont yet have a firm grasp of how much the vaccine decreases transmission, but there is good emerging evidence that it does significantly decrease transmission. Maar met iets experimenteels als NK-vaccins zijn we snel vijf jaar verder. Jul 4, 2022. He asserts that his statements "are based on nothing else but science." Snoeck vergelijkt NK-cellen met een ongeleid projectiel: Elke cel die er niet normaal uitziet, wordt gedood. De geschiedenis toont echter aan dat het helemaal niet gevaarlijk is om massaal te vaccineren tijdens een epidemie. Heres the crux of his concern, in which he likens escape from vaccine immunity to antibiotic resistance: THE key question is: why does nobody seem to bother about viral immune escape? Aangezien het geen debat betreft maar een reactie op een reactie in de vorm van een monoloog is het als leek moeilijk in te schatten wie er wetenschappelijk gelijk heeft. Geert Vanden Bossche is a scientist who published an open letter warning of global catastrophe due to deadly variants of COVID-19 selected for by mass vaccination. Of course, the type of vaccines to be used would be completely different from conventional vaccines in that theyre not inducing the usual suspects, i.e., B and T cells, but NK cells. VRT en Knack, kijk eens in de spiegel en laat ons toe de interviews die ik met jullie had publiek te maken. This is why in case of bacterial disease it is critical to not only chose the right type of antibiotic (based on the results from an antibiogram) but to also take the antibiotic for long enough (according to the prescription). Dat zal volgens hem wereldwijd tot veel doden leiden. RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2 do mutate. Dit weekend een stikstofakkoord? En video is zelfs een miljoen keer bekeken. So it is scientifically based but the conclusions of the chapters are accessible to laymen as is the entire chapter "Answers to Key Questions" Such claims are generally an offshoot of another favorite antivaccine claim, namely that the diseases being vaccinated against are so innocuous that vaccinating against them is overkill and allowing infection and natural herd immunity to occur is better, a trope that has also been resurrected about COVID-19, a disease thats killed well north of 500K people in just the US in a little over a year. On March 6, 2021, a Belgian veterinarian named Geert Vanden Bossche published an open letter"to all authorities, scientists and experts around the world" asserting that, in his expert analysis, the current global COVID-19 vaccination program will "wipe out large parts of our human population." NK cells are pathogen destroying cells that are part of the innate immune system. Because, among other things: 1) Neither in the original March 6 piece nor his March 13 follow-up does Vanden Bossche provide any direct, non-theoretical evidence that this is happening; 2) The natural antibodies that are produced after encountering a pathogen are only a small part of a quick, effective and broad-based first-line immune-system defense known as innate or passive immunity which in fact largely comprises other components; and 3) Vanden Bossche downplays the effectiveness of the antibodies our bodies naturally produce as part of the second-line (adaptive) part of the immune system that also has served us extremely well for millennia. His argument sounds a lot like an argument Andrew Wakefield once made for MMR. Speaking with McGill University's Office for Science and Society, Dr. Paul Offit, a doctor and vaccine scientist who serves as director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, explained that no matter where one is or was quarantined, you are still constantly exposed to microorganisms challenging your immune system. Retweets. Waiting for Vanden Bossche's "universal vaccine" is no way to win such a race. #COVID19 #openthedebate, Geert Vanden Bossche (@GVDBossche) March 7, 2021. The production of targeted antibodies obviously creates a different response than a natural infection because "you're producing antibodies against specific needs therefore you have a limited targeted immune response, not the whole response that you see after an infection." De statisten wilden eerder het herstel van het ancien rgime, onder meer van de staten- en standenorganisaties en de oude vrijheden van de Nederlandse gewesten. 1 jaar oorlog in Oekrane: hoe geraken we hieruit? Hence, it also offers unprecedented advantages in terms of safety, convenience and cost-effectiveness. He reminds me of another doctor who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination based on an unbending principle of immunology to justify his concerns, without any clinical or epidemiological evidence to support it. The more extensively the later age group will be vaccinated and hence, protected, the more the virus is forced to continue causing disease in younger age groups. This inevitably leads to enhanced natural selection and adaptation of more invasive immune escape variants, 2/4 6 37 Het is opmerkelijk dat alle tegenstemmen worden gesmoord. Read full document here: https://t.co/DPDFlg4U45 pic.twitter.com/TISexYqyTq, Geert Vanden Bossche (@GVDBossche) March 13, 2021. De experten zitten op twitter fact-checkers te liken en roepen mij op aan de juiste kant te staan. Are vaccines destined for a similar fate? ", The notion that lockdowns have weakened our innate immune system is equally without basis. Opleiding [ bewerken | brontekst bewerken ] Peter van den Bossche (born 1959) is a professor of international economic law at the University of Bern ( World Trade Institute ). However, this type of prophylactic vaccines [sic] are completely inappropriate, and even highly dangerous, when used in mass vaccination campaigns during a viral pandemic. View geert vanden bossche's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community.