Some Ghanaian Doctors have petitioned the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to immediately stop the rolling out of COVID-19 vaccination whose risks, per the data and studies available to them far outweigh its benefits.
The doctors who called themselves Concerned Ghanaian Doctors, are requesting all forms of mandates across the country requiring proof of vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines to be halted immediately.
According to the Concerned Ghanaian Doctors, before the roll out of any vaccination programme, there are three (3) major concerns that must be addressed, namely the necessity, the efficacy and the safety of the vaccine.
They stated that, looking at the available data and research concerning the pandemic and the novel vaccines, it is clear to them that, the vaccines are not necessary, neither are they effective nor safe.
Significant effort they indicated, is not being made to differentiate those who die with COVID-19(i.e. those who die from other causes but tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before their death) from those who die from COVID-19 (those for whom COVID-19 is the primary cause of death).
“Making that distinction would probably reduce the number of COVID-19 deaths reducing the infection fatality rate even further. A seroprevalence study from a town in Japan shows more people in the community have antibodies to COVID-19, 396 to 858-fold more than confirmed cases with PCR testing.(1)”
The doctors argue that, during the early days of the pandemic, the general sentiment was to hold on for a vaccine to come and save the day adding that, Ghanaians were told that these vaccines were the only way out of the pandemic, providing immunity against infection, preventing severe/critical disease, hospitalizations and death but over time, all have been shown to be false assertions.
“These vaccines do not prevent infections or spread. Recent studies show that the vaccinated are becoming more relevant in the spread of COVID-19. Many studies show outbreaks within fully vaccinated populations. Other studies show vaccinated populations as sources for outbreaks (5) (6) (7) (8) (9). Over the last few months of 2021, the assertion that these COVID vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization and death has been shown to be inaccurate as well. There are examples of this in other parts of the world. In the state of Vermont, USA, it has been shown that 79% of deaths in September 2021 were among fully vaccinated individuals (10)”.
Vaccination levels they averred, are not related to COVID-19 case numbers. “In other words, higher vaccination rates do not equal to less cases and less deaths. Countries like Israel and UK are typical examples of this. These countries have very high vaccination rates, currently deploying booster programmes, yet they are struggling to get the virus under control especially with these new variants”.
Read the FULL statement below.
CONCERNED GHANAIAN DOCTORS,
10TH JANUARY, 2022.
H.E. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA,
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, JUBILEE HOUSE, ACCRA.
Your excellency,
PETITION TO RESCIND VACCINE MANDATES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS ACROSS THE NATION.
Over the past 2 years the world has been embroiled over a fight against the COVID-19 pandemic employing many measures, protocols and tactics. This pandemic seems to have fostered an appearance of global unity and sense of community in an attempt to win this battle.
Being a novel virus, many of these measures, protocols and tactics have been, at best, educated guesses at fighting a virus of which we are still learning. Vaccines have been touted as our most recent and best tool at winning this war.
However, we disagree with the strategy of banking all our hopes on these vaccines and directly or indirectly coercing Ghanaians to go for inoculations against this novel coronavirus disease which, as previously stated, we are still learning about.
We, as Concerned Ghanaian Doctors, are writing to you requesting all forms of mandates across the country.
