Public Health England should address the problems with the data set by excluding the ‘not vaccinated’ from any Covid-shots whatsoever in the rates per 100,000. Then it should set up a ‘fully vaccinated’ category (which is making increasingly less sense due to waning vaccine efficicacy and the need for ‘booster shots’).
Public Health England, to its credit, is attempting to get a grasp on the transmission rates for Covid among the ‘vaccinated’ community.
“Although individuals may not develop symptoms of COVID-19 after vaccination, it is possible that they could still be infected with the virus and could transmit to others,” Public Health England says outright. “Understanding how effective vaccines are at preventing infection is therefore important to predict the likely impact of the vaccination programme on the wider population.”
“An analysis from the ONS Community Infection Survey found that contacts of vaccinated index cases had around 65 to 80% reduced odds of testing positive with the Alpha variant and 35 to 65% reduced odds of testing positive with the Delta variant compare to contacts of unvaccinated index cases,” PHE noted.
This nonetheless shows that the vaccinated are still a significant vector for Covid, and particularly, the Delta variant. There may be sound reasons for the elderly and at-risk to voluntarily get the Covid shots. However, the case for universal mandates is flimsy, while at the same time violates the right to bodily autonomy of hundreds of millions of people.
Meanwhile, the Covid wave pattern now appears to be seasonal and regional. Natural immunity is estimated to be at least half the U.S. population. The country should highly consider moving towards treating Covid like the seasonal flu: Shots recommended for the elderly and at-risk population.
It should also be in the discretion of doctors and patients to decide for themselves if the Covid shots are right for them, particularly as these prophylactic therapeutics that are being called ‘vaccines’ do not appreciably stop the transmission of Covid-19.
