Testimony of Dr. Aditi Bhargava

Bhargava: “My name is Aditi Bhargava and I’m a professor at UCSF and a microbiologist with 33 years of research experience. These are my scientific views…

Natural immunity is the gold standard.

CDC estimates that nearly 43% of the country has already been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and thus naturally immune. And that was all before the more transmissible delta variant took hold. 

Living in a bubble of sterile conditions is counterproductive to everything we know about strengthening the immune system. It’s Immunology 101. To downplay the beneficial and protective powers of our immune system goes against the founding principles of immunology. Several studies about SARS-CoV-2 are validating that knowledge.

There is no documented case of a naturally immune person getting re-infected with severe disease or hospitalization, despite the first case reported nearly two years ago. In sharp contrast, there are thousands of cases of severe COVID hospitalizations and deaths in fully vaccinated people.

CDC now estimates 90% of Americans over the age of 16 have antibodies against SARSCoV-2. But vaccine induced antibodies are only a small fraction of our immune responses. Immune studies from the British Health Ministry suggests that Covid vaccines might interfere with the ability of our immune system to produce antibodies against other parts of the virus, [a] crucial aspect for developing cross protection. The spike antibodies are incomplete and cherry-picked stories.

Vaccine induced protection fell through 33 to 42% within 3 months. That is no different than the protection the unvaccinated have. Hence mandates to prevent spread by using spike antibody levels as the gold standard is gross misrepresentation of data.”