{"id":44295,"date":"2020-12-29T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=44295"},"modified":"2020-12-29T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:31:02","slug":"no-evidence-covid-vaccine-prevents-viral-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=44295","title":{"rendered":"<b>&#8220;No Evidence COVID Vaccine Prevents Viral Transmission&#8221;<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>WHO Chief Scientist Warns &#8220;No Evidence COVID Vaccine Prevents Viral Transmission&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the WHO has stepped in to offer some confusing comments about the coronavirus vaccine, warning that there is &#8220;no evidence to be confident shots prevent transmission&#8221; and that people who receive the vaccine should continue wearing masks and following all social distancing and travel guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made by WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan during what appears to have been a virtual press conference held Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1343620091695538179&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fwho-chief-scientist-warns-no-evidence-covid-vaccine-prevents-viral-transmission&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1343620091695538179\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A clip of the offending line has begun circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At the moment, I don&#8217;t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines, to be confident that it&#8217;s going to prevent people from getting the infection and passing it on,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, a close look at the research released by Pfizer and Moderna shows the studies haven&#8217;t actually tested whether the vaccines actually prevent transmission of the virus; the goal of the trials was to see whether vaccinated patients presented with COVID symptoms at a rate that was substantially less frequent than individuals who hadn&#8217;t been vaccinated. That&#8217;s pretty much it. Though the data might hint at lowering transmission rates, that&#8217;s still tbd, apparently.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1343610355201802240&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fwho-chief-scientist-warns-no-evidence-covid-vaccine-prevents-viral-transmission&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1343610355201802240\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Some on twitter scoffed at the comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1343610640720683008&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fwho-chief-scientist-warns-no-evidence-covid-vaccine-prevents-viral-transmission&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1343610640720683008\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The doctor went on to explain that there&#8217;s no evidence to suggest that those who have been vaccinated wouldn&#8217;t be a risk if they traveled to a foreign country, say Australia, with relatively low COVID rates.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it might be helpful for the WHO to produce some kind of clarification that either offers substantially more context to explain this remark.<\/p>\n<p>But we suspect they won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, perhaps because that context might undermine certain government officials&#8217; insistence that there&#8217;s absolutely no reason to question the efficacy, and potential side effects (both long-term, and short) tied to the new COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/who-chief-scientist-warns-no-evidence-covid-vaccine-prevents-viral-transmission\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/who-chief-scientist-warns-no-evidence-covid-vaccine-prevents-viral-transmission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO Chief Scientist Warns &#8220;No Evidence COVID Vaccine Prevents Viral Transmission&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}