In Lancet condemns stigmatization of the unvaccinated

At the end of November, the Lancet magazine published
(https://bit.ly/3oWJFir) a letter from Gunther Kampf, an
authoritative researcher at the University of Griffswald in
Germany. In it, Kampf absolutely denounces those who call
Covid a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" amid "growing
evidence that vaccinated people continue to play an important
role in transmission." In the United States and Germany,
senior officials have used the term "pandemic of the
unvaccinated", suggesting that the people who have been
vaccinated are not related to the epidemiology of COVID-19.
Officials' use of this phrase may have prompted one scientist
to state that "the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated against
COVID-19." But this point of view is too simple.
People who are vaccinated have a lower risk of serious illness,
but are still an important part of the pandemic. Therefore, it
is wrong and dangerous to talk about a pandemic of the
unvaccinated. Historically, both the United States and Germany
have accumulated negative experiences when part of the population
was stigmatized for skin color or religion. I call on senior officials
and academics to end inappropriate stigmatization of unvaccinated
people, including our patients, colleagues and fellow citizens, and
to make additional efforts to unite the community.
Long before the vast majority of Omicron cases began to occur
among those vaccinated, and before CDC Director Rochelle Walenski
admitted in early October that the Covid-19 vaccine does not prevent
infection (https://bit.ly/3GOwKVB), state officials, experts and
doctors have been spreading insidious propaganda to shame people
for avoiding injections that this is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."