-by Steven Pelech, Ph.D.-
On Aug 25, 2021 Steven Pelech wrote to Al Richardson the president of the UBC Faculty Association regarding their consideration of mandatory mask wearing and vaccinations of staff and students at UBC.
Dr. Richardson,
Further to my August 9th email to you, I, and many of my Faculty of Medicine colleagues are very dismayed at the stance that you and others in the executive of the UBC Faculty Association have taken about calling for a mandatory vaccine mandate for all students, staff and faculty. This call is not really driven by evidence-based science and is likely to be harmful both physically and psychologically to the UBC community. University professors should be setting the example to the broad community that critical thinking and the exercise of responses based on scientific evidence should prevail over hysteria and fear that is propagated by social and mainstream media.
lear evidence is rapidly mounting that: the vaccines are losing their efficacy (most cases of COVID-19 now in highly vaccinated countries are in the vaccinated population); there is no clear evidence that SARS-CoV-2 supports the spread from unvaccinated people to vaccinated people any more than vaccinated to vaccinated people; more than half of the population in B.C. already has natural immunity, which is superior to that obtained by vaccination; the delta variant is more infectious, but apparently no more lethal than earlier strains; and there is mounting evidence for significant short-term term injury and high potential for long-term injury with autoimmune diseases.
Morbidity and mortality for people under 29 years of age with COVID-19 is not that much different from those under 18 years in B.C. The overall survival rate of minors (under the age of 19 years) with COVID-19 is 99.997%. Data from the US CDC indicates that for 12 to 17 years old, from March 1, 2020 to April 24, 2021 in 14 US states, COVID-19 adolescent hospitalization rates varied from 0.6 to 2.1 per 100,000, but without any recorded deaths (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7023e1.htm). As of July 30, 2021, only the Pfizer RNA vaccine had received emergency authorization use in the US for adolescents aged 12-17 years. Another review by CDC of the data from the v-safe program (a smartphone-based safety surveillance system) showed that out of 129,050 adolescents that were immunized, 56 were hospitalized (i.e., a rate of 43 per 100,000) (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e1.htm). This supports more than 20-fold higher rate of risk of hospitalization in 12 to 17 years old from administration of the Pfizer RNA vaccine than due to the virus that it is supposed to offer protection from. Such increased risks of vaccine injury relative to COVID-19 injury would be true for university-aged students as well.
Clearly in view of the actual threat posed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in B.C., the availability of vaccines for those that wish to be vaccinated, and the issues that are rapidly becoming evident with these vaccines, and finally the violation of human rights that is being advocated by you and the rest of the UBC Faculty Association Executive, you need to be receiving much better advice regarding the position that you are taking.
Respectfully,
Steven Pelech, Ph.D.
Steven Pelech, Ph.D. is a Professor, Division of Neurology,Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia.Senate Representative for Faculty of Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies.
Wait, your source of truth is healthfedback.org? The same online site that has Thomas Malone, founder of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence as an advisor? Who in turn is funded by US Pharmacopia and J.P.Morgan? Where US Pharmacopia’s sole purpose is to promote vaccines, and J.P.Morgans is in partnership with the Bill and Malinda Gates foundation who started the Global Health Investment Fund? That website?
Troll.
Wait, you read all the transparently shown links on their webpage and think you found a hidden plot?
Your reasoning does not demonstrate any causation but mere bias and a lack of knowledge… and perhaps a lack of trust in science and humanity.
For your information and those you read this:
Emmanuel Vincent is founder and director of sciencefeedback, which is a not-for profit organization dedicated to check information that claims to be based on science for both health and climate issues (healthfeedback / climatefeedback). Emmanuel is a climate researcher and completed a PhD at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). He runs the organization with more than 10 other researchers from different places, from different fields.
https://sciencefeedback.co/team-advisors-contributors/
The organization relies on more than 100 world-known professors in health and climate research fields.
https://healthfeedback.org/community/
https://climatefeedback.org/community/
You can apply to become a reviewer too if you have the professional background to validate scientific information (or misinformation).
Sciencefeedback has five advisors, four of them being professors of very different fields such as Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography, and Professor Thomas Malone, Professor of Management and founder of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. This independently run research center was previously sponsored by JP Morgan (among many others) – they do not have a stake. (https://cci.mit.edu/sponsors/) It is quite normal that big banks and other organizations sponsor from time to time research initiatives in the hope to gain some knowledge about new technologies. This does not imply any decision-making power whatsoever and conspiracies.
Btw, advisors advise. So, Thomas Malone advises Sciencefeedback… among others, like the mentioned professors form other fields from different places. So what?
And even if Thomas Malone would be a a spy or an evil guy / agent of JP Morgan (ridiculous to even write it), why the heck to you believe that Sciencefeedback who relies on hundreds of leading science experts should do anything harmful to the society and your health? They are there for the exact opposite – to validate information and share knowledge and truth….
About the non-profit-nature of such organizations:
In the academic world it is very typical to advise other academics on a pro bono basis. It is very typically to be dedicated to a topic. Unbelievable for some, but there are so many people, I would say the majority, in academia who just support others, without any financial stakes. Because scientists, typically, want to create knowledge. And want to share that knowledge. For free. You could call them idealistic people. Conspiracy believers cannot believe that…
And you call someone a Troll. Please get some education before you share misinformation.
This is excellent.
Does anyone know where I can get an antibodies test done?
I just got one in BC from Life Labs. $75. Need a Dr. to sign the requistion. Too bad our health authorities are not ‘following the science’ that is hundreds of years proven. Natural immunity is now a conspiracy theory to these fraudsters.
Dr. Pelech, I can’t thank you enough for the information you and your colleagues bring to the general public. After I recovered from covid-19, I gave blood for your antibody study. Since then, I have become so educated on SARS-CoV-2, natural immunity and what I believe are quite serious side effects of these experimental medical injections. I have posted many of your interviews on my own site, so that other people can find the information easily, along with information from other Doctors, Scientists and Lawyers.
I found your peer reviewed study “A majority of uninfected adults show preexisting antibody reactivity against SARS-CoV-2”, very interesting, and educating.
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/146316
Thank you for your involvement with being the Chair of the “Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee Canadian Covid Care Alliance”
https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/
I have brought my grandchildren, and my mother to your lab for antibody testing, as well as given your covid antibody testing information to many of my friends. All of whom showed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. This knowledge has allowed us to live confidently during these trying times.
My family and I sincerely thank you.
Can you share the information on antibody testing? I’d like to be tested but know that the Lifelabs tests are inadequate as they only look at circulating antibodies, not memory B and T cells.
It’s unfortunate that Prof. Pelech does not hold himself to the same standard when telling others to base responses on scientific evidence. I’m not a fan of vaccine mandates either, but many of the statements and claims in the article are misleading, unsupported. As a COVID researcher, medical professor/professional I hope you can do better in the future. Here is a website I have found helpful in dispelling myths about the pandemic and vaccines, https://healthfeedback.org/ …..hope people find it useful.
Wait, your source of truth is healthfedback.org? The same online site that has Thomas Malone, founder of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence as an advisor? Who in turn is funded by US Pharmacopia and J.P.Morgan? Where US Pharmacopia’s sole purpose is to promote vaccines, and J.P.Morgan is in partnership with the Bill and Malinda Gates foundation who started the Global Health Investment Fund? That website?
Troll.
Prof. Pelech,
I respect and share some of the concerns voiced in your letter about mandating vaccination. However, I was surprised that someone in your position and knowledge, expressing how, “professors should set an example…respond based on scientific evidence” would then make unsupported, inaccurate statements and claims related to the current global pandemic.
healthfeedback.org is a resource I found helpful in distinguishing establish fact from numerous inaccuracies and misinformation concerning COVID.
That being said, I hope the University’s current efforts to minimize infections, which do not include a vaccine mandate, are successful.
Wait, your source of truth is healthfedback.org? The same online site that has Thomas Malone, founder of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence as an advisor? Who in turn is funded by US Pharmacopia and J.P.Morgan? Where US Pharmacopia’s sole purpose is to promote vaccines, and J.P.Morgans is in partnership with the Bill and Malinda Gates foundation who started the Global Health Investment Fund? That website?
Troll.
Well said! Dr. Pelech is a leader and a hero!
Thank you Steven for your science based letter and standing up for the truth about the extremely low risk of Covid mortality in the younger population. The fear and hysteria narrative is getting really old and is not based in science. Universities should be setting an example for the rest of society. Thank you !
Dr Candice Hall
Low mortality in the younger population of… Border Collies, cats and horses?
Thanks for your expert veterinary insight into human health Dr. Hall. I’ll take some ivermectin please if there is any left.
Thank you!
Wow, this guy is a real slouch. How dare he throw around his phD credentials so frivolously. And yet this will still not make the 6 o’clock news to wake up the zombies. Because the zombie news casters don’t report news; they preach the narrative of the mainstream religion.