Are people vaccinated against COVID-19 posing a much greater risk to others who are unvaccinated?<\/p>\n That is the claim being made by a former vice president of the European Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization at the World Health Organization, Professor Christian Perrone.<\/p>\n A report published by an online platform, America\u2019s Frontline Doctors quoted the immunization expert as saying: \u201cUnvaccinated people are not dangerous. Vaccinated people are dangerous for others\u201d<\/p>\n According to him vaccinated people must quarantine over the winter months or risk serious illness. \u201cVaccinated people are at risk of the variants, they transmit it. It is proving around different countries,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n A short video showing Professor Christian Perrone who specializes in tropical pathologies and emerging infectious diseases making the claims has been made available in the online report.<\/p>\n What exactly did he say?<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cVaccinated people are at risk of the variants. They transmit it. It\u2019s proven around different countries. So, vaccinated people should be put in quarantine and should be isolated from society. Unvaccinated are not dangerous. Vaccinated people are dangerous for others. It\u2019s proven in Israel now. I am in contact with many physicians in Israel, they have a big problem. Now severe cases in hospitals are among vaccinated and in the UK also, we have the large vaccination program and also there are problems.\u201d<\/p>\n Fact-Check<\/b><\/p>\n Checks from content discovery and social monitoring platform for publishers and brands, Crowdtangle showed the article started circulating on Facebook sometime in September 2021 and has generated more than 10,000 interactions.<\/p>\n A screengrab of Crowd tangle<\/b><\/p>\n However, the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the claims via the Africa Infodemic Response Alliance (AIRA) secretariat said \u201cDr. Perronne\u2019s claims are unverified, and not representative of WHO.\u201d<\/p>\n Data from the US and many other countries show that there is a distinction between the outcome of cases in unvaccinated persons compared to vaccinated individuals, the World Health Organization(WHO) stated.<\/p>\n \u201cRecent data from the US CDC shows with unvaccinated individuals are at 11 times the risk of dying from COVID-19 than a vaccinated person,\u201d the WHO emphasized.<\/p>\n According to the specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health, vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. \u201cGetting vaccinated can save your life.\u201d<\/p>\n Verdict<\/b><\/p>\n The claim that vaccinated people pose a risk to others is FALSE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The claim that vaccinated people pose a risk to others is FALSE Are people vaccinated against COVID-19 posing a much greater risk to others who are unvaccinated? That is the claim being made by a former vice president of the European Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization at the World Health Organization, Professor Christian Perrone. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[276,1545,444,1546,345,1547,425,1548,1549],"class_list":["post-748063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-claims","tag-debunks","tag-expert","tag-immunization","tag-people","tag-pose","tag-risk","tag-suggesting","tag-vaccinated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/83402611.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
The claim that vaccinated people pose a risk to others is FALSE<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n