The Cell paper from May, 2026 has a critical omission.
cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092…
Can you believe that in the human cohort they did not provide the COVID vaccination status of the people who developed or did not develop lung cancer??
Imagine that.
This is important because the cohort developed severe COVID related respiratory illness at a time when most people were vaccinated.
If the vast majority of those who became severely ill were vaccinated, you have to ask the question why they became so sick and are they representative of the general population.
I would say we do not understand why the vaccine didn’t prevent severe respiratory illness in those people.
I would say they do not represent the vast majority of individuals in the general population.
Instead of being dismissive, it is important to be honest and open about what we know and what we do not know.
Please tell me how the journal Cell published that paper with no mention of the COVID mRNA vaccination status of the human cohort.
I would add, and I have said this before, that the COVID mRNA vaccines increase PD-L1 expression in tumor cells.
Of course this makes the tumors more sensitive to immune checkpoint blockade.
But why not address PD-L1 some other way like epigenetic drugs, chemo or radiation, agents that actually have an anti-tumor effect.
Increasing PD-L1 by using agents that do not have an anti-tumor effect is by itself an immune evasion tumor promoting effect.
BTW, this is shown in the October, 2025 Nature paper whose discussion reads like marketing.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Both NSCLC and melanoma respond to immune checkpoint therapy much better than other tumors with possible exception of MSI-high tumors.
Melanoma already has approved use of interferon therapy that is part of the COVID mRNA vaccine mechanism in that Nature paper.
Why not use IFN. Oh it’s because it’s pretty toxic.
The strategy suggested in the Nature paper has issues.
But, I did say it is OK to conduct clinical research with informed consent within a population that has very different risk:benefit considerations from the general population.
Oh, but we don’t have informed consent for the COVID mRNA vaccines as I said under oath a couple of days ago I don’t believe we have informed consent.
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