Harvard Study

Countries with High Vaccination Rates
Do Not Have Fewer Covid-19 Cases

A recent study from the renowned Harvard Center for Population and Development examined the correlation between the proportion of vaccinated people in a society and the occurrence of Covid-19 cases. In the course of this, scientists compared 68 countries and 2,947 different counties (regional administrative bodies) in the USA. They came to the following conclusion: The populations with higher vaccination rates did not experience fewer Covid-19 cases, than in populations with lower vaccination rates. They even describe one trendline towards more Covid-19 cases in more strongly vaccinated populations and cite Israel here which showed “the highest Covid-19 cases per million people with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated”. Also Iceland and Portugal, whose populations were fully vaccinated up to 75 percent in each case, showed more Covid-19 cases than Vietnam and South Africa, where only ten percent of the populations were fully vaccinated. Also with regard to the US counties the researchers found no evidence of the fact that fewer Covid-19 cases appeared in the more strongly vaccinated populations.

Interestingly, the researchers even conclude by referring to other exciting works whose results went in the same direction, among others to the following:

• A report from the Israeli Health Ministry established that the effectiveness of the double BioNTech vaccination lay only at 39 percent, instead of at the originally determined 96 percent.
• An Israeli study from Sivan Gazit, Roei Shlezinger and others compared the immunity of vaccinated with recovered. The result: the people with acquired natural immunity had a longer prolonged and stronger protection from infection, symptomatic illnesses and hospitalizations which are caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 than the vaccinated who have received two doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine.

Source: S. V. Subramanian, Akhil Kumar: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States, published on 30.9.2021 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

CLW Note: Since this was published last September and according to more recent reports, the vaccination rates in Israel have greatly increased to nearly 90% (now including the initial two doses plus two further boosters for the “most vulnerable”), and their case numbers per capita have skyrocketed to reportedly the highest in the world. It will be interesting to see such statistics for countries like Canada, Australia and Austria, where vax rates and cases continue to soar. Israel is now apparently retiring the “Green Pass” vaccine passport system.

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Published February 2022

From an article in Raum&Zeit, Volume 40, Issue #235, Jan/Feb 2022
Machine Translation by SYSTRAN, Lernout & Hauspie, LogoMedia & Promt
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