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THE VACCINATION CRAZE
This is a pre-publication of a chapter that will be finalized in the forthcoming book «Corona Unmasked« by Sucharit Bhakdi and Karina Reiss.
Will good things come only to those who wait?
Until now, most of the public has accepted and sup- ported the development of vaccines without doubt and hesitation. And rightly so, since vaccinations can save lives. But no vaccination will ever be perfect and free of side effects. Useful vaccines must meet two impor- tant requirements: 1. the vaccine must offer protection against a serious or even life-threatening disease; 2. its side effects must be within tolerable and acceptable limits.
On balance, the benefit must be much greater than the risk. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? And it is true. Who would get vaccinated against a common cold if this meant taking an incalculable risk of severe side effects?
Furthermore, not every vaccination has to be useful for every person. Living in Germany, we do not need a vaccination against yellow fever, since it does not occur here.
We already know that COVID-19 puts a clearly defined group of people at risk – namely, those over 70 with serious preexisting conditions. For these people, vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 might possibly make sense. Of course, before such vaccinations could begin, the vaccine‘s efficacy and potential dangers would need to be examined very carefully. However, the clinical studies conducted thus far have excluded precisely this group of patients, so that efficacy and risks remained unknown before the roll-out of the vaccine.
Does the »killer coronavirus« justify exceptions?
In mid-October 2020, the President of the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, told the Phoenix television station: “We all assume that vaccines will be approved next year. We don’t know yet exactly how they will work, how well they will work, what they will do; but I’m very optimistic that there will be vaccines.” He was right about everything. The vaccines are here, and they are being given en masse – yet we don’t know if they work, how well they work, or what they do. That is why these vaccines have not been given regular approval by the EU, but only a “conditional approval” for emergency use (1). In the next 2 years, it will be reviewed whether their benefits outweigh the risks. Every person who gets vaccinated now is part of this huge ex- periment. But, of course, without any liability! Because with vaccinations under emergency rules, the manufacturers make no guarantees whatsoever – in case of serious reactions, or even in case of death, they are free from any liability.
Especially for completely novel, gene-based vaccines such as the mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, a careful study of the possible risks would be particularly important, because according to the current state of scientific knowledge, a variety of severe side effects are conceivable.
It is thus all the more astonishing that meaningful studies on the efficacy and safety of these novel vaccines do not exist at all but at the same time, these same vaccines have already been pre-ordered by European governments for the population in huge quantities. Nor were such studies feasible within the short time available.
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