Stunning new study undercuts the case for vaccine mandates

FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and local government employment mandates looming, the future of countless workers is up in the air. Yet new research undercuts the stated justification for these mandates.

The study does stress that vaccination has a clear personal health benefit, drastically reducing the chance of serious illness or death once infected with COVID-19.

But its interpersonal benefits are highly dubious, undercutting mandates. https://t.co/RwqORlRFe3 — Brad Polumbo ??⚽️ ?️‍? (@brad_polumbo) November 1, 2021

Big-government politicians claim that vaccine mandates are necessary because unvaccinated individuals are a danger to not just themselves but society. They argue that choosing to remain unvaccinated exacerbates the spread of the deadly virus. But according to a new study published in the Lancet, this doesn’t appear to be true.

'People inoculated against Covid-19 are just as likely to spread the delta variant of the virus to contacts in their household as those who haven’t had shots, according to new research,' Bloomberg reports.”

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