1/12/21 Mass vaccination fails to halt Covid transmission rates – study
(The study itself seems to suggest that ‘Fails to halt’ really means ‘fails to reduce’)
Referring to this Lancet paper published the same day, ie yesterday (my artwork to improve readibility):
1/12/21 Kampf, The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing
High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing. In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated). 12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type [[1]]. In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older [[2]]. This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9% on 27. October 2021 (Figure 1) providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission.
A similar situation was described for the UK. Between week 39 and 42, a total of 100.160 COVID-19 cases were reported among citizens of 60 years or older. 89.821 occurred among the fully vaccinated (89.7%), 3.395 among the unvaccinated (3.4%) [[3]]. One week before, the COVID-19 case rate per 100.000 was higher among the subgroup of the vaccinated compared to the subgroup of the unvaccinated in all age groups of 30 years or more.
In Israel a nosocomial outbreak was reported involving 16 healthcare workers, 23 exposed patients and two family members. The source was a fully vaccinated COVID-19 patient. The vaccination rate was 96.2% among all exposed individuals (151 healthcare workers and 97 patients). Fourteen fully vaccinated patients became severely ill or died, the two unvaccinated patients developed mild disease [[4]].
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies four of the top five counties with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated population (99.9–84.3%) as “high” transmission counties [[5]].
Many decision makers assume that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission. It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures.
Meanwhile, with fingers in their ears, or is it their eyes…
1/12/21 UK ministers secure 114m more Covid vaccines for next two years
This is to ensure the booster programme!
So is this:
1/12/21 GPs in England may stop monitoring vulnerable patients
Exclusive: Sajid Javid locked in talks with BMA about relaxing rules in order to help deliver Covid booster programme
How is this attending to priorities - unless the priority is the vaccine itself?
Good news really, when you come from the perspective of actually preferring people to be well, which very obviously is the opposite of what the Pharma quaxine-pushers want. With the quaxines clearly being a) a wasted effort (for good health) and b) lethal killers and maimers, the sooner we face the fact that they’re useless and to be dumped, the better it will be for all of us. Stick with the three descriptive words: Unnecessary, ineffectual, lethal.
You may be right @RhisiartGwilym. I’d tend to conclude that people who feel they’d prefer to get the jab anyway should have that choice, and vice versa. Unless of course the evidence points towards jabs making things worse. I can’t, somehow, see such evidence surviving long.
Exactly. It’s difficult to come to any other conclusion. I’m just amazed how the various leaders here and in the rest of Europe can continue to push for this “vaccine” with a straight face. How insane (to any rational person) is forced jabbing or giving “boosters” given these studies?
The BBC has just provided Pfizer with a nice free ad. Don’t know about you, but isn’t it just great to able to contribute via the licence fee to one’s own demise.
I’m sure that Lancet report is somewhere there too… (Tumbleweed)
Good grief, that BBC article is dripping with propaganda. Shock horror “… while most people in the world have now had at least one Covid jab, in parts of Africa it is less than one person in 20” (their emphasis). And oh, they’ve forgotten to mention the number* of infections and deaths there.
Every sentence can be analysed to show the pro-jab framing. Hey, wasn’t there a media analysis site where they do this sort of thing? I remember it vaguely from a few years back.
Not only that but ALL the cases of OMICRON are in fully vaxed people, but they still say, “there is no evidence that the new variant is evading the vaccine” instead of “there is no evidence the vaccines work against this new variant” - as we haven’t yet found anyone for whom it has been effective.
THe trouble - for them - is now that there are few people who have NOT been vaxed on whom a new strain of vaxine can be tested to see if it works against Omicron, and few ways of establishing that it actually makes an improvement. How can you tell if a vaccine works if the disease itself does not cause illness? ??
Unless they can magically conjure up a unvaxed but rather sick population who haven’t been exposed to the virus either, how will they know if this new variant produces equal sickness? If its effects are “mild” in a younger and healthy population, how is it then different from the old Wuhan strain?
THe whole thing is cognitive disjunction on steroids1