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Harvard Epidemiologist Says the Case for COVID Vaccine Passports Was Just Demolished
https://freedomfirstnetwork.com ^ | 31 AUGUST 2021 | by Jon Miltimore

Posted on 08/31/2021 12:25:35 PM PDT by Red Badger

New research found that natural immunity offers exponentially more protection than COVID-19 vaccines.

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A newly published medical study found that infection from COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting and stronger protection against the Delta variant of the virus than vaccines.

“The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a ‘Don’t try this at home’ label,” the Scientific American reported Thursday. “The newly released data show people who once had a SARS-CoV-2 infection were much less likely than vaccinated people to get Delta, develop symptoms from it, or become hospitalized with serious COVID-19.”

Put another way, vaccinated individuals were 27 times more likely to get a symptomatic COVID infection than those with natural immunity from COVID.

In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease [95%CI:13-57, adjusted for time of vaccine/disease]. No COVID deaths in either group.https://t.co/hopImCD1D0

— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) August 25, 2021

A Death Blow to Vaccine Passports? The findings come as many governments around the world are demanding citizens acquire “vaccine passports” to travel. New York City, France, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and British Columbia are among those who have recently embraced vaccine passports.

Meanwhile, Australia has floated the idea of making higher vaccination rates a condition of lifting its lockdown in jurisdictions, while President Joe Biden is considering making interstate travel unlawful for people who have not been vaccinated for COVID-19.

Vaccine passports are morally dubious for many reasons, not the least of which is that freedom of movement is a basic human right. However, vaccine passports become even more senseless in light of the new findings out of Israel and revelations from the CDC, some say.

Harvard Medical School professor Martin Kulldorff said research showing that natural immunity offers exponentially more protection than vaccines means vaccine passports are both unscientific and discriminatory, since they disproportionately affect working class individuals.

“Prior COVID disease (many working class) provides better immunity than vaccines (many professionals), so vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical,” Kulldorff, a biostatistician and epidemiologist, observed on Twitter.

Prior COVID disease (many working class) provides better immunity than vaccines (many professionals), so vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical. https://t.co/d14kTPnCWk

— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) August 27, 2021

Nor is the study out of Israel a one-off. Media reports show that no fewer than 15 academic studies have found that natural immunity offers more protection from COVID-19 than the virus.

“Among the most fraudulent messages of the CDC's campaign of deceit is to force the vaccine on those with prior infection, who have a greater degree of protection against all versions of the virus than those with any of the vaccines.”

15 studies show…https://t.co/oXaI3L0Y3S

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 26, 2021

Moreover, CDC research shows that vaccinated individuals still get infected with COVID-19 and carry just as much of the virus in their throat and nasal passage as unvaccinated individuals

“High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus,” CDC Rochelle Director Walensky noted following a Cape Cod outbreak that included mostly vaccinated individuals.

These data suggest that vaccinated individuals are still spreading the virus much like unvaccinated individuals.

The Bottom Line Vaccine passports would be immoral and a massive government overreach even in the absence of these findings. There is simply no historical parallel for governments attempting to restrict the movements of healthy people over a respiratory virus in this manner.

Yet the justification for vaccine passports becomes not just wrong but absurd in light of these new revelations.

People who have had COVID already have significantly more protection from the virus than people who’ve been vaccinated. Meanwhile, people who’ve not had COVID and choose to not get vaccinated may or may not be making an unwise decision. But if they are, they are principally putting only themselves at risk.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; immunity; passports; vaccine; vaccines
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To: TexasGator

I said what I think, I don’t know what else you expect me to say. I’m done with this conversation.


41 posted on 08/31/2021 2:32:23 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer

“I said what I think, I don’t know what else you expect me to say. I’m done with this conversation.”

I just want to know if you believe the vaccination causes infections.


42 posted on 08/31/2021 2:38:20 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

You’re absolutely right but that is what I was told.


43 posted on 08/31/2021 2:40:17 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

They gabe him the vaccine while he was sick with Covid? Why?


44 posted on 08/31/2021 2:41:56 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: TexasGator

Sorry....I messed up. The man with COVID. They did NOT make him get the vaccine, too.


45 posted on 08/31/2021 2:43:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: TexasGator
Those exposed to SARS in 2003 have immunity to SARS COVID-19, and not just those who got a COVID vaccination as you state. The Singapore data shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all [emphasis mine] subjects who recovered from SARS 17 years ago.

From the report: "Singapore study shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all recovered COVID-19 patients. These T cells were also found in all subjects who recovered from SARS 17 years ago..."

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-evidence-that-a-level-of-pre-existing-covid-19-sars-cov-2-immunity-is-present-in-the-general-population/

46 posted on 08/31/2021 2:46:10 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: LilFarmer

Sorry...I messed up. They did NOT give him the vaccine.


47 posted on 08/31/2021 2:46:32 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Our team also tested uninfected healthy individuals and found SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells in more than 50 percent of them.”


48 posted on 08/31/2021 2:51:43 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: T.B. Yoits

“and not just those who got a COVID vaccination as you state. “

I didn’t state that.


49 posted on 08/31/2021 2:52:26 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

“When getting COVID vaccination:”


50 posted on 08/31/2021 2:53:25 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Don’t excerpt my post!


51 posted on 08/31/2021 2:54:53 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Red Badger
So, the CDC is hanging their proverbial hat on this Kentucky study that shows natural immunity conferred on those that have survived a Covid infection are 2.3 times more likely of getting reinfected. Here is the "buried truth" in their findings. I might have read this incorrectly but this appeared in a synopsis of that Kentucky study:

But a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from people in Kentucky who contracted COVID-19 a second time, says the vaccine boosts immunity in people who have had the virus.

Unvaccinated people who contracted COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to catch it again than those who got vaccinated AFTER contracting the virus, it said.


Did you catch that. I'm reading it as the vaccinated group were also Covid survivors that chose to also get vaccinated. Not "vaccinated only" people.
52 posted on 08/31/2021 2:59:06 PM PDT by copaliscrossing (The truth is always your friend.)
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To: Sicon

Was he wearing your Harvard tie?


53 posted on 08/31/2021 3:44:40 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Red Badger

The passports are entirely a political requirement, the virus being merely the excuse for a national ID and Social Credit system.


54 posted on 08/31/2021 5:32:53 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe dpbP)
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To: Red Badger

It is all about population control and reduction.


55 posted on 08/31/2021 5:34:28 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe =)
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To: TexasGator

The article supports your doctor!

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You used to skip reading comprehension class right?


56 posted on 08/31/2021 6:09:11 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: bramps

“You used to skip reading comprehension class right?”

Wrong.

Study:


“Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.”


57 posted on 09/01/2021 7:01:17 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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