A disturbing new paper offers evidence they do - and could help explain the unending Omicron waves in mRNA countries.
A new peer-reviewed paper has troubling news for anyone who has received multiple mRNA shots, suggesting the immune system paradoxically weakens a crucial part of its Covid response after the third jab.
The immune shift causes the body to make relatively more of a less potent kind of antibody to Covid, displacing antibodies that attack the virus more aggressively. The change could heighten the risk of Covid infection and mean that people who are infected suffer longer and more serious cases.
It may also increase the chance of certain autoimmune disorders, though that connection is more speculative.
Worse, the researchers found evidence that being infected with Sars-Cov-2 after receiving a booster worsens rather than reverses the shift.
The authors did not find a similar immune change in people who got other Covid vaccines, only the mRNAs.
The findings could help tie together case reports of post-mRNA autoimmune disorders like lupus and the unending waves of Covid in highly mRNA vaccinated countries. For example, Japan - where nearly every adult is vaccinated and boosted -set a new seven-day record for Covid deaths yesterday.
The paper “provides a very reasonable immunologic explanation for why the mRNA vaccine booster regimens are failing,” a physician who read it emailed me. “A great paper and raises a lot of questions which should be asked. Particularly when you have empirical population-wide data that something’s not working properly.”
