“Over the next five years, it looks like there’s going to be a lot of money put into innovation of the messenger ribonucleic acid technology [mRNA] and lipid nanoparticles,” medical commentator John Campbell, Ph.D., said on a recent episode of his YouTube show.
Campbell referenced a recent conversation with Bill Gates and a 2022 “TED Talk” in which Gates outlined his five-year vision for global health. During the presentation, Campbell shared excerpts from the talks and provided a detailed analysis of the key points discussed. One notable clip highlighted Gates’ endorsement of mRNA technology, emphasizing its simplicity, affordability, self-assembling nature, and scalability.
“We just need to mess around” with it in the next five years, he said to make it so. Soon there will be “factories worldwide that can make $2 vaccines with even less lead time than we’ve had to here during this pandemic.”
Gates stated that the factories will produce vaccines for every disease. Campbell, a former nurse and healthcare educator, expressed skepticism about the feasibility of this plan and questioned Gates’ qualifications to make such bold predictions.
“He’s not a doctor. He’s not a nurse. He’s not a pharmacist. He’s not a biomedical scientist. He’s not a dentist. He’s not a physiotherapist. He’s none of these things … He has no qualifications in these matters.”
“Let me know how comfortable you are with people self-appointing themselves to lead global research on these topics,” he told his viewers.
Campbell’s primary worry is that the newly proposed mRNA vaccines will introduce lipid nanoparticles into the bloodstream.
Contrary to initial public statements, these particles do not remain localized in the arm but circulate systematically throughout the body. Due to their fatty nature, similar to that of bodily cells, they have the capacity to fuse with them.
“The membranes will combine and they will become one and they will absorb into any fatty surface throughout the body,” he said. “That will mean they will discharge their contents into that cell.”
In the “TED Talk” clip, Gates said the COVID-19 vaccines “saved millions of lives,” but they can still be even better. “We need to invent easier-to-deliver vaccines that are just a patch you put on your arm or something that you inhale. We need vaccines that actually block infections.”
Gates has invested heavily in vaccine patches and is funding research on inhalable vaccines.
Gates also said there would be “innovative new vaccines” that can “eradicate entire families of viruses” like the coronavirus family or the flu families.
He promised that such vaccines would enhance people’s health and reduce the health disparity between wealthy and impoverished nations.
Campbell held differing opinions on most of Gates’ arguments. For instance, he questioned the availability of data supporting the claim that COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives.
Campbell suggested implementing a “complete moratorium” on using mRNA lipid nanoparticle technology until more is known about its effects, rather than creating mRNA vaccines for every disease.
Furthermore, Campbell expressed skepticism about the possibility of eradicating a class of viruses, stating that it seems like an implausible idea since viruses are essential components of the planetary ecosystem.
Contrasting Campbell’s views, Gates emphasized the potential of mRNA vaccines in shaping the future of immunization and predicted that improved mRNA vaccines could potentially prevent future pandemics.
“Unfortunately, I don’t think Mr. Gates has the totality of the answer to that,” Campbell said.
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