Footage from C-SPAN's live coverage of proceedings in the Michigan House of Representatives.
"Dr. Christina Parks graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, in 1992 with a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan in 1999. She did her graduate research in the field of cytokine signaling." (source)
Parks (starting at 5:05): “Vaccines are made to a specific variant, and when that variant mutates, the vaccine no longer recognizes it. So it’s like you’re seeing a completely new virus. And because that’s so, you actually get more severe symptoms when you’re vaccinated against one variant, and then it mutates, and then your body sees the other variant. So there’s the potential, and the science shows, that in fact with the flu, if you get vaccinated in multiple years, you are more likely to get severe disease, you are more likely to have more viral replication, and you are more likely to be hospitalized...
We are seeing the same thing in COVID with the delta variant. And so we are mandating that people get a vaccine that could actually make them more sick when they’re exposed to the virus? In fact, this week, a paper came out, and what it showed is that with this delta variant, when you’re vaccinated, your body makes antibodies that are supposed to neutralize the virus. But they were supposed to neutralize the old variant. When they see this new variant, what they’re doing is, the antibodies are actually taking the virus and helping it infect the cells [emphasis added].”
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