Vaccine Misinformation?

Editor,

Mike McGuire’s front page article this week about Area Hospitals appears to contain several pieces of misinformation. “Vaccinations are increasingly able to prevent any infection at all, given that there are fewer infected people to catch it from....” is the first oddity. The fact there are fewer people to catch it from has nothing to do with vaccine effectiveness. Not to mention the fact there there is no evidence to suggest that vaccines are improving their ability to prevent infection. Dr. Parodi states that immunity from a vaccine gives substantial protection against all Covid strains. If that is true, why do we have such a large number of Covid illnesses and Covid deaths among the vaccinated in the last 12 months? He goes on to say that natural immunity is only good for 6 to 12 months (which is debatable), but utterly ignores the decline in vaccine efficiency that occurs in 6 to 12 months, and which in fact can go negative, thus making you more likely to get sick. There is also no mention of vaccine side effects. Doctors truly committed to patient health would be informing the public of both pros and cons, so there can be informed consent, rather than resorting to vaccine cheerleading.

–Bruce Barron, Castro Valley