The vaccinated are becoming big spreaders. By Gunter Kampf, in the Lancet.
First, this misunderstanding is why bureaucrats and politicians are pushing for vaccine mandates:
Many decisionmakers assume that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission. …
Bogus assumption. The vaccinated who catch covid suppress the symptoms and are more likely to be out and about, spreading the disease.
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. …
Translation: Recent data shows that vaxxed people are contracting and spreading covid in numbers too big to ignore.
And you’re as likely to catch covid from a vaxxed as an unvaxxed person:
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. …
Now, most covid patients are vaxxed:
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.
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%). …
Even worse, there are hints that vaccine enhanced infections are occurring. This from an outbreak in an Israeli hospital:
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.
Vaccine mandates are stupid as well as immoral.
hat-tip Kat H.
