Covid-19 Omicron: Argentina announces new health passport for variant, although vaccinations may not protect

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Although the first Omicron cases in Latin America involved vaccinated individuals, Argentina expanded vaccination certificate requirements.

Omicron’s first two Latin American cases involved individuals who had already been vaccinated, making one thing clear from the start: Covid vaccinations may not protect against new infections. Vaccinated people are just as infectious as unvaccinated in any variant, including Omicron.

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However, the Ministry of Health of Argentina announced on Thursday (2) that starting next week, it plans to implement the health passport to encourage vaccination and to take extreme care in the face of the Omicron variant.

Since the vaccinated are just as contagious as the unvaccinated, this measure is arguably not about protecting the population but much more about power, intimidation, control, and coercion.

“The aim is that we all take care of ourselves, to highlight the importance of completing vaccination schedules,” said the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti.

About the health passport, Vizzotti said that the implementation of the passport would be agreed with the areas of Sports, Tourism, Culture, and the governments of the 24 provinces of the country.

Vizzotti clarified that there is no resistance to being vaccinated against Covid-19 but that after the second wave of the pandemic has passed. Given the high-risk perception, some people have not prioritized vaccination.

The Minister emphasized that one of the reasons for the sanitary pass is to stimulate vaccination in those who have not yet been vaccinated.

According to the head of the Ministry of Health, many people in the 18 to 39 years age group have missed their second-dose vaccination appointments, mistakenly perceiving less risk of contagion. Vizzotti urged these people to complete the vaccination schedule given the possibility of an increase in the number of coronavirus infections.

Argentina registered its first case of Covid-19 in March 2020 and accumulated 5,335,310 infections and 116,617 deaths, while 68,874,746 vaccines against the disease have been applied since December, when the inoculation campaign began.

SCIENTIFIC STUDIES CHALLENGING VACCINATION MANDATES ARE BEING IGNORED

At least 22 scientific studies demonstrate that mandating or forcing Covid-19 vaccines provide no overall population health benefit and may even be harmful.

These research papers and studies raise doubts that Covid-19 vaccine mandates are supported by science and good public health practice.

Anyone, especially politicians, mayors, governors, chancellors, and presidents planning to implement Covid passports and/or vaccine mandates, should be alerted. Those seeking to challenge these mandates are invited to consult these studies carefully.

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Given these scientific study results worldwide, legal action against already introduced vaccine mandates, and in broader terms, Covid passes, have good chances of being won, says a critic attorney association based in Germany. The most effective legal procedures are said to be class actions.

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