New scientific findings in the prestigious Lancet Infectious Diseases journal blow a hole in the argument that workers need to get vaccinated to protect those around them. The findings prove the foolishness of forcing police and other public employees to get jabbed or lose their pay. And President Joe Biden should retract his order to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to compel large employers to mandate vaccines.
The journal reported Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines have “minimal” impact on preventing transmission of the delta strain. Delta is the COVID strain currently causing over 99% of U.S. cases.
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Most vaccines — against polio, smallpox, measles and other diseases — prevent infection and spread. But not COVID-19 vaccines.
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🔬 A new study published in the Lancet last week concluded, COVID-19 vaccines have “minimal” impact on preventing transmission of the delta strain. MINIMAL. Like, very very little. The groundbreaking findings showed that fully vaccinated infected people infected others in their household slightly MORE (25%) as unvaccinated people did (23%). The researchers also found that vaccinated people were only somewhat less likely to contract the virus (25%) compared with the unvaccinated (38%).
A related op-ed published in the Boston Herald — of all places — relies on the study to argue that injection mandates don’t make any sense. If people want PERSONAL protection, they can get the shots. Otherwise, getting the shot helps no one.
The study is titled, “Impact of Delta Variant and Vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 Secondary Attack Rate Among Household Close Contacts.” The researchers concluded that “close-contacts of vaccinated Delta-infected indexes did not have statistically significant reduced risk of acquisition compared with unvaccinated Delta-infected indexes.”
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- December 2021. Published online November 1, 2021. Oon Tek Ng, Vanessa Koh, Calvin J. Chiew, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Natascha May Thevasagayam, Tze Minn Mak, Joon Kiat Chua, Shannen Si Hui Ong, Yong Kai Lim, Zannatul Ferdous, Alifa Khairunnisa bte Johari, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Lin Cui, Raymond Tzer Pin Lin, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Alex R. Cook, Yee-Sin Leo, and Vernon J. M. Leed. “Impact of Delta Variant and Vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 Secondary Attack Rate Among Household Close Contacts.” The Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific 17 (December): 100299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100299.
Research Journal. - November 19, 2021. Phillip P. Salvatore, Christine C. Lee, Sadia Sleweon, David W. McCormick, Lavinia Nicolae, Kristen Knipe, Thomas Dixon, Robert Banta, Isaac Ogle, Cristen Young, Charles Dusseau, Shawn Salmonson, Charles Ogden, Eric Godwin, TeCora Ballom, Tara Ross, Nhien Tran Wynn, Ebenezer David, Theresa K. Bessey, Gimin Kim, Suganthi Suppiah, Azaibi Tamin, Jennifer L. Harcourt, Mili Sheth, Luis Lowe, Hannah Browne, Jacqueline E. Tate, Hannah L. Kirking, and Liesl M. Hagan. “Transmission Potential of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Persons Infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in a Federal Prison, July—August 2021.”
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.12.21265796.
Research Journal.
Additional CDC funded study shows no difference in transmission rate between vaccinated and unvaccinated, as measured by PCR tests. - November 8, 2021. Betsy McCaughey. “McCaughey: New Vax Science Shows Mandates Unwise.” Boston Herald.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/11/08/mccaughey-new-vax-sciences-shows-mandates-unwise/.
News.
“Don’t get me wrong. Americans should choose to get vaccinated. … I’m triple jabbed.” - November 11, 2021. Jeff Childers. “☕️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, November 11, 2021 ☙ SEASONS 🦠.” ☕️ Coffee & Covid 2021 🦠.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-thursday-november-681.
Law, Blog.
When the vaccinated are slightly more likely to spread the virus, as the study shows, mandating the jabs is counterproductive, and vaccine passports are pointless (at least in terms of whether the holder is infectious). Further, continued testing of the unvaccinated for job purposes while not testing the vaccinated is unjustified and thus discriminatory. There is no societal virtue in getting jabbed. Any consideration of greater hospitalization of the unjabbed is nullified when one considers that most people are not offered the effective early treatments that exist. Had those treatments been offered, they may not have been hospitalized.