Professor: Vaccinated People Have ‘Relevant Role’ in Spreading COVID-19

Professor: Vaccinated People Have ‘Relevant Role’ in Spreading COVID-19
A pharmacist prepares a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot in San Rafael, Calif, on Oct. 1, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A research paper published in The Lancet authored by a German professor argued that governments’ stigmatization of unvaccinated individuals is “not justified” because fully vaccinated individuals play a “relevant role” in transmitting COVID-19.

“In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19,” wrote Professor Gunter Kampf, of the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the University of Greifswald in Germany.
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Jack Phillips
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