“Increases in COVID‑19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2,947 counties in the United States”

“Findings
At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days (Fig. 1). In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplifed, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.“

So says the European Journal of Epidemiology, publishing the work of S. V. Subramanian and Akhil Kumar. It is a short paper, but the graph in it says everything that needs to be said:

As we now know that vaccination does not stop the spread of Covid-19, the most that can be said for vaccination is that it reduces the severity of the disease among the vaccinated.

Thus it does not bring a public benefit, it brings a private benefit.

So why make it mandatory?

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