Posted on 04/28/2022 10:47:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
People who don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 are putting themselves in danger and also are creating a “disproportionate” threat to the health of vaccinated people, even in places with high vaccination rates, says a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The study by University of Toronto researchers used computer modeling based on the province of Ontario to predict infection rates when unvaccinated and vaccinated people mixed to varying degrees. The researchers worked in factors such as vaccine effectiveness, baseline immunity among the unvaccinated, and infection recovery rates.
Unvaccinated people were always at a higher risk of infection, the study said. Vaccinated people had lower infection rates when they mixed with other vaccinated people and lower rates when they mixed with unvaccinated people. The study found unvaccinated people enjoyed a lower infection rate when they mixed with vaccinated people because the vaccinated people served as a “buffer,” the study said.
“We found that the choices made by people who forgo vaccination contribute disproportionately to risk among those who do get vaccinated,” the researchers wrote.
“Although risk associated with avoiding vaccination during a virulent pandemic accrues chiefly to people who are unvaccinated, their choices affect risk of viral infection among those who are vaccinated in a manner that is disproportionate to the portion of unvaccinated people in the population.”
The research shows that not getting vaccinated is not just a personal decision, one of the study’s authors said in an interview.
“At the end of the day, this is about collective action. Unfortunately, in a communicable disease system – we’re all connected and that’s why we have to rely on public health for things like this,” David Fisman, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, told Global News.
“The decision to get vaccinated can’t be framed as just a matter of personal choice because it has implications for the safety of other people in the community.”
Fisman told Forbes the findings support the idea of mandates, vaccine passports and other legal measures to limit unvaccinated people’s access to public spaces. Restrictions have been imposed to limit the spread of other infectious diseases and even prevent people from smoking tobacco in indoor public places, the study noted.
Government leaders should consider the study when setting policy in the future, the study said.
“It is unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 will be eliminated, and our findings will likely be relevant to future seasonal SARS-CoV-2 epidemics or in the face of emerging variants,” the study said.
It’s really simple:
The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by making the unprotected take the protection that didn’t protect the protected.
From 2010...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pharmaceutical-giant-astrazeneca-pay-520-million-label-drug-marketing
From 2015...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/astrazeneca-pay-79-million-resolve-kickback-allegations
Continuing proof, as if it were needed, that CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Justice Department probes claims that AstraZeneca bribed Iraqi terrorists to win contracts
Weapons of Mass Pharmacology
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DOJ Declines FCPA Charges Against AstraZeneca Following SEC Settlement September 9, 2016
Medical Industrial Complex
“...when they mixed with...”
Disgusting language...sounds like they are condemning miscegination, or promoting isolating un-upgraded humans to their own “kind”. The idea being to prevent upgraded humans from being exposed to the noxious “COVID breath” of their inferiors.
Quite a few words to basically say ‘the vaccines don’t work’.
For this atrocity of a study, Fisman should never be given back the “her” that was taken out of the middle of his name.
What a bunch of total runny cow shit..........
Another fake news “modelling study”..... where you set the criteria and get the results you wanted.
Toronto? Yeh, right!
I know the MIC very well....
Had a guy...100 yrs old. But a FULL CODE.
Have another guy,,that's 69 or 70....ate up with cancer...Wants everything done......
I don't get it...............
Old phrase that applies: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
B S
The study was just a simulation done through computer modeling. Garbage in, garbage out. From the actual "study," one reads:
"We constructed a simple susceptible-infectious-recovered compartmental model of a respiratory infectious disease...."
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35470204/
From the detail of the article, one finds the IMPORTANT "Conflict of interest statement"
"Competing interests: David Fisman has served on advisory boards related to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines for Seqirus, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Pasteur Vaccines, and has served as a legal expert on issues related to COVID-19 epidemiology for the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. He also served as a volunteer scientist on the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Ashleigh Tuite was employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada when the research was conducted. The work does not represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada. No other competing interests were declared.
Too late....
I like it.....
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