WhatsApp Message on All Vaccinated People Dying Within 2 Years by Luc Montagnier: Indian Virologist Debunks Theory

WhatsApp message on all vaccinated people dying within 2 Years by Luc Montagnier has gone viral, and has caused undue panic to citizens who have already taken the COVID-19 vaccination or are due to receive it. While the message that says that Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier has predicted that all those who have received vaccination will die within two years is fake, the famous virologist did speak of his reservations on the COVID-19 vaccine.

Nevertheless, a knowledgeable Indian virologist and microbiologist Gangadeep Kang, who is a professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore has responded to claims made by Luc Montagnier. Kang was also the executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India from August 2016 to July 2020.

WhatsApp Message on All Vaccinated People Dying Within 2 Years Fake, But What Did Luc Montagnier Say?

While he never said that all vaccinated people will die within 2 years, Luc Montagnier, famous French virologist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus did say that mass vaccination was a mistake in a recent interview. The points that were put forth by him in his interview are as follows:

• New variants are created through selection imposed by antibodies made through vaccination.
• There will be much stronger infection by variants in vaccinated individuals due to antibody-dependent enhancement.
• Massive vaccination being an enormous error, and a medical mistake.

The Truth About Luc Montagnier’s Claims

Gangadeep Kang, in her Twitter feed has dismissed all these claims, and debunked all such theories associated with COVID-19 vaccination. “When we are infected or vaccinated we make antibodies in response to a whole virus or part of a virus. In viral infection, the body’s immune responses, including antibodies, shut down viral replication and we recover from infection. In vaccination, the immune response that is made has nothing to fight immediately but we train the immune system to recognise the virus if and when it comes. Vaccination is preparedness/prevention,” says Kang.

Bear with me.. About Luc Montagnier’s statements-
Well, apparently he did not say all vaccinated people will die in two years (Given human variation why 2? Not 1 or 6??). But he did say
New variants are created through selection imposed by antibodies made through vaccination 1/n

— G Kang (@GKangInd) May 26, 2021

“In a small number of individuals, special, because they are immunocompromised (therefore not usually out and about to spread virus) it is possible that virus replication may be prolonged. In such (rare) cases there may be development of variants that escape the immune response,” she says. She further goes on to add that, while variants are many, the variants that escape immunity are few. “As the virus spreads through populations and multiplies massively, the few variants that are more capable of escaping immunity that is induced by vaccines will make vaccines somewhat less effective. BUT while this may be what we are currently seeing with B1.351 and B1.617.2, even there two doses of vaccines protect reasonably (data from Qatar and UK). The only way to decrease variants is not to stop vaccination, but to increase it to stop virus circulation and replication,” she comments.

The Indian virologist also reiterates that it has been witnessed from the effectiveness and impact studies that vaccination reduces viral replication in individuals and decreases transmission in communities, effectively decreasing the overall viral load in the community and the world. “Clear and simple-if viruses are not replicating they cannot mutate and become new variants. Vaccinate to decrease viral replication and variants,” she opines

She also stated that antibody dependent enhancement was a potential problem identified with COVID-19 vaccine development. Essentially, instead of blocking virus from entering cells, non-neutralizing antibodies bind and increase ability to infect immune cells it usually can't get into, resulting in more virus replication, immune cell activation and secretion of cytokines that increase inflammation. “However, all vaccines are being evaluated to see that they make high amounts of neutralizing antibodies. And they are” she adds.

Kang says that massive vaccination being a mistake is a topic brought up with “pseudo-scientific messy incorrect immunology” that she has addressed even previously. “We need to continue to study long term protection, and particularly study immune response in vaccine break through cases to understand what is happening with immunity and safety. But reassuringly, so far there is no signal,” says Kang.