| | | World-Renowned Physician Warns Against Vaccine
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Below, AFP Fact Check examines three false claims made by McCullough.
Healthy people younger than 50 do not need a Covid-19 vaccine: FALSE The CDC says on its website that risk of severe disease from the novel coronavirus increases with age, but National Center for Health Statistics data shows that people under age 50 account for four percent of deaths involving Covid-19.
And a March 26, 2021 article in Science also found that by mid-August 2020 “the resurgence in the United States was largely driven by adults 20 to 49 years of age.”
Olivier Schwartz, head of the Virus and Immunity Unit at the Pasteur Institute, told AFP by phone: “It is obvious that people under 50 who are in good health should be vaccinated” because they can still be affected by the disease.
Bruno Lina, professor of virology at the University of Lyon, said that the aim of a mass vaccination campaign is to reduce the transmission of a virus.
This would not be effective if only people over 50 years old received the vaccine. That is less than half the population, and “under these conditions, we will never slow down the circulation of the virus,” he said.
Both Schwartz and Lina said that while the Covid-19 vaccines currently authorized cannot guarantee that a person will not catch the disease, they have been shown to lessen symptoms and prevent death.
Lina also explained that if a vaccinated person does contract Covid-19, the amount of virus present compared to an unvaccinated person is “16 times less,” reducing the likelihood of transmission.
AFP Fact Check has debunked other claims that vaccination against Covid-19 is unnecessary or should be halted from medical professionals from Texas, Canada and Belgium.
People who have recovered from Covid-19 do not need the vaccine: FALSE Around the 12-minute mark of his testimony, McCullough claims: “People who develop Covid have complete and durable immunity.”
He goes on to say, “You can’t beat natural immunity. You can’t vaccinate on top of it and make it better. There’s no scientific, clinical or safety rationale for ever vaccinating a Covid recovered patient.”
However, an article in the journal BMJ found reinfection is possible.
Lina said that “we have the feeling today that the vaccine induces better immunity than certain natural infections.”
He said that for people with less symptomatic bouts of Covid-19, “we observe a rapid loss of antibody titer, and therefore a potential for reinfection faster than that observed with vaccination.”
The Pasteur Institute’s Schwartz also confirmed that people who have contracted Covid-19 have an interest in being vaccinated “because the antibody level decreases in all people.”
He said boosting antibody levels, even in those vaccinated, will be particularly important against variants “which need more antibodies to be neutralized.”
There are also indications that some people suffering from lingering symptoms of Covid-19, or “ long Covid,” have experienced relief after vaccination.
No evidence of asymptomatic spread of Covid-19: FALSE |
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