1/ The fact the mRNA vaccines transiently suppress lymphocytes after vaccination has come up repeatedly on the feed as a possible explanation for post-vaccination deaths.
Fact check: This is TRUE. @BioNTech_Group acknowledged it its papers (both 162b1 and 162b2 did so)...
Fact check: This is TRUE. @BioNTech_Group acknowledged it its papers (both 162b1 and 162b2 did so)...
2/ By the way, they also lead to a sharp rise in C-reactive protein.
Would love immunologists or virologists to chime in on whether these changes may be in any way clinically meaningful (feel free to email me at alexberensonauthor at protonmail if you're shy).
Would love immunologists or virologists to chime in on whether these changes may be in any way clinically meaningful (feel free to email me at alexberensonauthor at protonmail if you're shy).
Source:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2639-4
(extended data Fig. 1)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2814-7
(extended data Fig. 3)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2639-4
(extended data Fig. 1)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2814-7
(extended data Fig. 3)
BTW: one of the trialists had about a 40x increase in CRP (at the low-dose); BioNTech blamed the spike on an unrelated infection.
Here, I had it open in another window
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/12/11/2020.12.09.20245175/F7.large.jpg
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/12/11/2020.12.09.20245175/F7.large.jpg