{"id":10844,"date":"2023-01-05T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10844"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T22:37:29","slug":"new-variants","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/new-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"New variants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAre vaccines fueling new COVID variants?\u201d asks the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/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=””]Viruses\u00a0mutate<\/a>\u00a0by their very nature.\u00a0Some mutate faster than others, but they all mutate. Suggesting that vaccines cause mutations, however, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of viral mutation in the first place.<\/p>\n

The opinion piece in the WSJ opens, \u201cThe virus appears to be evolving in ways that evade immunity.\u201d While the premise is accurate \u2013that the virus is evolving to evade immunity\u2013 the conclusion does not follow that vaccines are causing the virus to mutate. As the article points out, a research paper in\u00a0Nature<\/a>\u00a0states COVID\u2019s \u201crapid and simultaneous emergence of multiple variants with enormous growth advantages is unprecedented,\u201d meaning that COVID itself mutates rapidly, and has displayed the propensity to do so even\u00a0before<\/a>\u00a0vaccines were ever released.<\/p>\n

The virus doesn\u2019t mutate because we are vaccinated, the virus mutates because that is its nature, and those mutations that end up with an advantage are the ones that will be able to infect human cells and replicate there. The successful variants are the ones that develop to evade immunity \u2014 and that\u2019s any immunity, not just vaccine-induced immunity.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COVID variants arise from the virus’s natural mutation process, not from vaccines, as viral mutation is inherent to its nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10844","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","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\/10844","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\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10844\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}