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Q&A: WHO Vaccine Draft and the Impossible Coronavirus Shot

Day 3 · 2:51:18 · Dean Allison · Patricia Leidl

  • 📘 Her 2002 State of the World’s Vaccines draft stated coronaviruses mutate too fast for effective vaccines.
  • ⏱️ Typical vaccines need 7–15 years; the novel mRNA COVID shot arrived in months despite that science.
  • 🤷 Like millions she still “trotted down” for the shots and now lives with the consequences.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 2:51:18

Thank you, Patricia, for your courage and for standing up and sharing your story. I'm a Member of Parliament from British Columbia and so very much aware of what is happening provincially as well as nationally in this, but I am just— that if you can just, um, talk a bit more about your work and with who, I believe with vaccines too. I'm not sure if you had some papers on that and what's happened to you. Was it, was it in sync with your research or was it just a—.

Patricia Leidl · 2:51:51

It was, it was quite honestly, it was just a contract. It was, uh, I mean, I worked at WHO for quite a few years, but initially I started off doing contract work And between that, you know, work in, you know, the Human Security Report and, and then work for the United Nations Population Fund, then back to WHO. But vis-à-vis the book that I— the first draft that I wrote on the vaccines was called The State of the World's Vaccines. It was a far— it was in 2002. And even then, as I was writing the book, uh, I was writing a section on the coronavirus and how there could never be a vaccine that would be effective against a coronavirus because it mutates too quickly. And so I was very surprised when suddenly there's a vaccine for a coronavirus and most vaccines take typically between 7 to 15 years to come to market. This one, you know, came within 6 months, you know, involving a novel coronavirus, a novel mRNA platform.

Patricia Leidl · 2:52:55

And then on top of this, this virus that presumably mutates too quickly for a vaccine to be, you know, effective. But I myself, like many others, trotted down and dutifully put out our arms, and, you know, here we are.

Dean Allison · 2:53:12

Thanks, Mark. That's all the time we have. Appreciate it. Patricia, thank you so much.

Patricia Leidl · 2:53:17

Thank you for this opportunity.

Dean Allison · 2:53:18

Thanks.