Marc Van Ranst, the famed Belgian virologist, said in an interview last week it is wrongheaded for health officials to assume that requiring a universal vaccination is good policy.
“The worst thing you can do is make the vaccine compulsory,” Van Ranst told VRT Nieuws, according to Euractiv. “That’s fuel to the anti-vaccine movement, as it’s what they’ve been warning about for years. It would send a very bad signal.”
Independent media network Euractiv said citizens in Belgium are also apprehensive to be inoculated. Sciensano, the country’s health institute, said about 50 percent of those surveyed would “certainly get vaccinated, 17 percent would not, and 33 percent are doubtful, the report stated.
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Last Monday, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced it developed a vaccine with “an extraordinarily high degree of efficacy – more than 90%, close to 95%.” Pfizer worked on the project with Germany’s BioNTech SE. Health officials were hoping to get a vaccine that was about 75 percent effective.
“I think we can see light at the end of the tunnel,” Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, said in an interview on CNBC. “I believe this is likely the most significant medical advance in the last 100 years, if you count the impact this will have in public health, global economy.”
Yesterday, the Dow and S&P 500 hit all-time closing highs after Moderna released trial data showing its coronavirus vaccine was more than 94 percent effective.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. media’s anointed top disease expert, told Bloomberg, “What I would hope is that even though there is a degree of skepticism about vaccines in general, that when the general public sees how effective this vaccine is, we might see a turnaround of the attitude toward vaccination.”
Consumer Reports conducted a survey in October that showed less than a third of its U.S. respondents said they were “very likely” to get the vaccine
A recent survey by Ipsos showed only 54 percent of those living in France would be willing to be vaccinated, which is a 5 percent drop since September, ConnexionFrance.com reported.
TREND FORECAST: As we have forecast, there will be strong “Anti-Vax” movements in the United States and western nations as vaccination mandates are imposed upon the general population. It should be noted they were gaining strength before the COVID War in Italy and the U.S. began. Again, anti-tax, anti-vax, anti-establishment, “Off With Their Heads 2.0” will be among the major political platforms.
