For the past year, we’ve been told relentlessly that unless and until almost every American receives a COVID-19 vaccination, the pandemic will linger and continue to wreak havoc.
However, based on what is happening on many U.S. college campuses over the past few weeks, one can’t help but question the dogma that vaccines are the panacea to the pandemic.
This has caused trepidation among many Cornell students.
Marguerite Pacheco, a doctoral student at Cornell, was similarly flummoxed by the recent outbreak.
“If there’s that many students testing positive, despite being vaccinated, it is going to spread to other people extremely quickly,“ Pacheco told ABC News. ”It seems like the second that, you know, that there are cases happening in vaccinated students of that magnitude, you need to assume that it is just going to catch like wildfire.”
If heavily vaccinated places such as New York City and Cornell University are experiencing massive COVID-19 case counts, are vaccines the sole solution to the pandemic? Based on the data, it seems less likely every day.
Yet, that hasn’t stopped our nation’s so-called health leaders from doubling down on vaccinations as the lone remedy to the pandemic.
Of course, Fauci failed to explain how getting all Americans vaccinated will slow the spread when places such as Cornell, with a 97 percent vaccination rate, are experiencing large case counts.
President Joe Biden, too, has vilified the unvaccinated (and those with natural immunity) as super-spreaders, despite the mounting evidence that vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are equally susceptible to new strains of the virus.
At this point in the pandemic, we know that vaccines do prevent severe illness. However, we also know that vaccines don’t prevent the spread of COVID-19.
As such, our nation’s health care leaders should be stressing the cornucopia of therapeutic options, such as monoclonal antibodies, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, etc., as viable treatments for COVID-19, instead of manically mandating vaccines.
Unless and until Fauci and others come clean about the reality that vaccines aren’t the panacea they made them out to be, COVID-19 outbreaks will continue to spread unabated, even among those who have been double-vaccinated and boosted.