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geertvandenbossche.org
Personal blog · geertvandenbossche.orghealthscience
geertvandenbossche.org is a personal blog at geertvandenbossche.org about health and science. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for Geert Vanden Bossche's writings arguing that mass COVID-19 vaccination may prolong the pandemic by driving immune escape. Commenters mostly cite or describe these claims.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-05
What Hacker News says?
Subramanian Kumar 2021 [1] found that there is no correlation between vaccination rates and new case rates on a country-wide level, or a county-wide level in the United States. This tracks with Dr. Vanden Bossche's assessment [2] from March of this year that mass vaccination with prophylactic vaccines will actually prolong and worsen the pandemic due to shedding of infectious variants. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g…
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on “Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%”Submitted Remaining in the dark and turning in circles leads to erroneous decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt will be interesting to see how the immune response develops for previously covid-naive vaccinated people after their first covid infection. Specifically, does their immune system still adapt to new variants? One of the main arguments of controversial anti-covid vaccine people like Geert vanden Bossche is that the immune response generated by the vaccine may thwart the immune system in generating an effective resp…
Comment linking /post/not-covid-19-vaccine-mediated-but-naturally-acquired-immunity-enables-herd-immunity
on “Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection”If you don't know how citations and data work and are incapable of following them, even in an "opinion" piece, that's your problem. >Safe and effective... Every day that becomes more untrue in highly vaccinated populations like the UK and Israel, whose hospitals and morgues are full of vaccinated people. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-... https://www.gov.il/en/departments/guides/informat…
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on “Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable”I'm reluctant to leverage such language, but this is an appeal to authority. And there's tons of historical evidence that authorities failed to produce their predicted end without regard to their field, specialty, education, politics, etc... So to acede to this solely on the basis that the "intelligentsia" has is perhaps just as blind a means as a coinflip. And there is of course a plenitude of arguments about how p…
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on “Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job”