{"id":200249,"date":"2021-11-29T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=200249"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:08:21","slug":"the-lancet-publishes-rare-dissenting-voice-on-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/the-lancet-publishes-rare-dissenting-voice-on-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lancet Publishes Rare Dissenting Voice on COVID-19 Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

To call COVID a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ is ‘far too simple,’ Dr. G\u00fcnter Kampf says.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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23 Nov 2021 – <\/em>A dissenting perspective from COVID-19 orthodoxy has found its way into one of the medical establishment\u2019s most prestigious voices, with a letter by a German epidemiologist criticizing the narrative that COVID now represents a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. G\u00fcnter Kampf is associate professor for hygiene and environmental medicine at the University Medicine Greifswald, Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine in Germany. His letter<\/a>, published in The Lancet\u2019s<\/i> November 20 edition, highlights \u201cincreasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission\u201d of the virus, and therefore the idea that \u201cthe unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated\u201d is \u201cfar too simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the USA, a total of 10,262 COVID-19 cases were reported in vaccinated people by April 30, 2021, of whom 2,725 (26.6%) were asymptomatic, 995 (9.7%) were hospitalized, and 160 (1.6%) died,\u201d Kampf explained. \u201cIn Germany, 55.4% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in patients aged 60 years or older were in fully vaccinated individuals, and this proportion is increasing each week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatizing parts of the population for their skin color or religion,\u201d Kampf concluded. \u201cI call on high-level officials and scientists 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kampf elaborated on these concerns in an October 29 essay<\/a> published by the Brownstone Institute. There he added that the vaccinated can contribute to the development of virus variants, and may actually accelerate the spread of COVID by changing their behavior after getting their shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cVaccinated people usually behave in a more risk-taking way, they have more contacts, go to concerts and parties more often,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey are no longer tested in Germany and are not quarantined. It is a carte blanche for an almost normal social life. If they become infected, they often have no or only mild symptoms and thus do not recognize their infection or recognize it too late. As a result, the expected wave among the vaccinated would hardly be visible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the United States, a body<\/a> of data<\/a> suggests that the mass vaccination strategy for defeating COVID-19 has failed<\/a>. The federal government considers<\/a> more than 196 million Americans (59% of the eligible) to be \u201cfully vaccinated\u201d (a moving target given the vaccines\u2019 temporary nature), yet ABC News reported<\/a> in October that more Americans died of COVID-19 this year (353,000) than in all of 2020 (352,000), according to data from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, vaccine hesitancy persists thanks to unaddressed concerns about the vaccines\u2019 safety, stemming largely from the fact that they were developed and released far faster<\/a> than any previous vaccine.<\/p>\n

Defenders stress that their development did not start from scratch, but rather relied on years of prior research into mRNA technology; and that one of the innovations of Operation Warp Speed was conducting various aspects of the development process concurrently rather than sequentially, eliminating delays unrelated to safety. However, those factors do not fully account for the condensing of clinical trial phases \u2014 each of which can take anywhere from 1-3 years on their own \u2014 to just three months apiece.<\/p>\n

While cases of severe harm<\/a> reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after taking COVID shots represent less than one percent of total doses administered<\/a> in the United States, a 2010 report<\/a> submitted to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services\u2019 (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) warned that VAERS caught \u201cfewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events.\u201d May reporting<\/a> from NBC News quotes several mainstream experts acknowledging \u201cgaps\u201d in federal vaccine monitoring.<\/p>\n

Additionally, many of the unvaccinated simply consider it unnecessary in light of significant evidence<\/a> that immunity from prior COVID infection lasts longer and is more durable than immunity from vaccination, while religious and\/or pro-life Americans harbor moral objections to taking something developed and\/or tested<\/a> with the use of fetal cells from aborted babies.<\/p>\n

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23 Nov 2021 – A dissenting perspective from COVID-19 orthodoxy has found its way into one of the medical establishment\u2019s most prestigious voices criticizing the narrative that COVID now represents a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated.\u201d It is ‘far too simple,’ Dr. G\u00fcnter Kampf says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":200250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2124],"tags":[2425,887,232,958,1829,1868,2504,2485,1864,2484,1447,2482,888,2631],"class_list":["post-200249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debates-on-covid-vaccines","tag-astrazeneca-vaccine","tag-big-pharma","tag-capitalism","tag-control","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-johnson-and-johnson-vaccine","tag-moderna-vaccine","tag-pandemic","tag-pfizer-vaccine","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-vaccine-passports","tag-vaccines","tag-vaers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284809,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200249\/revisions\/284809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}