{"id":10703,"date":"2023-06-08T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10703"},"modified":"2024-08-04T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:55:25","slug":"your-immune-system-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/your-immune-system-on-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Your immune system on vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A\u00a0Canadian oncologist<\/a> (who is no longer allowed to practice medicine) is publicly celebrating the acceptance of his paper, wherein he claims that COVID vaccines suppress the immune system, causing COVID re-infections, chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, and cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]While it can be impressive to be published, this paper has no evidence, and it is not a study but simply\u00a0a\u00a0hypothesis<\/a>. There is some suggestion that the journal that published it is\u00a0predatory<\/a>.\u00a0The paper also cites another\u00a0that claims countries with higher vaccine uptake had higher all-cause mortality, but\u00a0fact-checking<\/a>\u00a0and more thorough analysis has shown those claims to be unsupported.<\/p>\n

The main assertion in the paper concerns\u00a0IgG4 antibodies<\/a>. Scientific understanding of\u00a0these immune cells is still evolving. Another\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0looked at the issue of IgG4 and offered that\u00a0they make up only a small part of the total antibodies that target the COVID spike protein after vaccination. The paper concluded that overall, they are unlikely to weaken the immunity of vaccinated people.<\/p>\n

Since the main paper in question makes extraordinary claims about the role of vaccination in causing immune system problems, it should bring extraordinary evidence to back it up. Alas, it does not.<\/p>\n

For example, the paper makes\u00a0a claim about the UK Office of National Statistics.\u00a0The claim is that between April and mid-November 2021, more people who hadn\u2019t gotten the COVID-19 vaccine died compared to those who had received two doses. But later, from the end of November 2021 to December 2022, things changed: more people who had received a third vaccine dose died compared to those who hadn\u2019t gotten vaccinated at all.<\/p>\n

The error here is\u00a0confounding by indication<\/a>,\u00a0neglecting to take into\u00a0account that, at that time, the third\u00a0dose was reserved only for the sickest and most vulnerable people. As it turns out, those people are also the most likely to die. The claim is extraordinary, and the evidence fails to account for such variables.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A paper claiming that COVID vaccines suppress the immune system lacks evidence, cites dubious sources, and fails to account for important variables like patient vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[202,189,214,188,218],"class_list":["post-10703","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-cancer","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-immune-system","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10703\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}