Lancet Correspondence Reveals No Good Reason to Stigmatize the Unvaxxed as Government has Done
#79 The Rowen Report
Dear Subscriber,
We have seen a coordinated effort by our own government leaders and press to blame the unvaxxed for the pandemic. Those speaking out against this have been ignored or silenced. At last we have a report in a top level medical journal speaking out against this “crime”. What will the FB censors do now? Even members of my family spoke to me on the “problems” of the unvaxxed. No one could ever convince me that there is not nefarious collusion between industry and government – that they are married, and speaking with one voice.
I think Glenn Beck’s special report right here is simply sensational. I am shocked it is still up on YouTube:
What has happened to our country? We deserve the mess we are in. Rigged or not, most all holding power used blood money to buy their elections, and we condoned it. We have not supported the few, who are speaking out against the “system” of corruption and Rulership.
To your Excellent Health,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
THE LANCET
CORRESPONDENCE| VOLUME 398, ISSUE 10314, P1871, NOVEMBER 20, 2021
COVID-19 STIGMATIZING THE UNVACCINATED IS NOT JUSTIFIED
Gunter Kampf
Published: November 20, 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02243-1
In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that “the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19”.
1But this view is far too simple.
There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission. In Massachusetts, USA, a total of 469 new COVID-19 cases were detected during various events in July, 2021, and 346 (74%) of these cases were in people who were fully or partly vaccinated, 274 (79%) of whom were symptomatic. Cycle threshold values were similarly low between people who were fully vaccinated (median 22·8) and people who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median 21·5), indicating a high viral load even among people who were fully vaccinated.
2 In the USA, a total of 10 262 COVID-19 cases were reported in vaccinated people by April 30, 2021, of whom 2725 (26·6%) were asymptomatic, 995 (9·7%) were hospitalised, and 160 (1·6%) died.
3 In Germany, 55·4% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in patients aged 60 years or older were in fully vaccinated individuals,
4and this proportion is increasing each week. In Münster, Germany, new cases of COVID-19 occurred in at least 85 (22%) of 380 people who were fully vaccinated or who had recovered from COVID-19 and who attended a nightclub.
5 People who are vaccinated have a lower risk of severe disease but are still a relevant part of the pandemic. It is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Historically, both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatising parts of the population for their skin colour or religion. I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatisation of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.
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Lancet Correspondence Reveals No Good Reason to Stigmatize the Unvaxxed as Government has Done
Incredibly important presentation:
https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/is-vaccine-efficacy-statistical-illusion.html
And accompanying video explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umArFc-fdc
Very distressing. Some of the ways covid efficacy data can be complete illusions.