Lancet Publishes Letter By Professor Who Warns: “Stigmatizing The Unvaxxed Is Not Justified” By Science & Is ‘Dangerous’

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The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and best-known medical journals, has published a letter that warns high-level government officials and scientists around the world to stop claiming that the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated.

The piece entitled COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified, was written by Professor Günter Kampf, an associated professor for hygiene and environmental medicine at the University of Greifswald in Germany.

He warns that “stigmatizing the unvaccinated is not justified” by science and is “dangerous”

Kampf claims that a belief has been propagated by high-level officials that there is a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ which wrongly implies that the vaccinated are not relevant to the spread of covid-19

In his article he argues that “There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission”

“It is wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated”

It warns that “historically, both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatizing parts of the population for their skin color or religion.”

The piece ends with an urgent plea, “to stop the inappropriate stigmatization of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.”

The letter in full reads:

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”.1 But 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,4 and 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.

1 Comment

  1. Lancet are completely in board.One letter to make it look innocent isn’t going to fool many .We know they’re all liars in the “well respected members of the COMMUNITY class “.Theyre pure evil.Really .

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