{"id":1125553,"date":"2021-12-16T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125553"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:14:19","slug":"medical-expert-to-congress-nothing-represents-american-waste-excess-and-global-arrogance-more-than-mandating-vaccines-for-people-with-natural-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-expert-to-congress-nothing-represents-american-waste-excess-and-global-arrogance-more-than-mandating-vaccines-for-people-with-natural-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Expert To Congress: Nothing Represents \u2018American Waste, Excess, And Global Arrogance\u2019 More Than Mandating Vaccines For People With \u2018Natural Immunity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedical-expert-to-congress-nothing-represents-american-waste-excess-and-global-arrogance-more-than-mandating-vaccines-for-people-with-natural-immunity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125553&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At a congressional hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations and other treatments on Wednesday, Dr. Marty Makary, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, slammed colleges for requiring COVID-19 vaccination boosters for young people who have previously had COVID-19 and likely already have natural immunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing that represents American waste, excess, and global arrogance more than requiring a young, healthy, low-risk student who had the infection in the past and already has natural immunity to get a booster,\u201d Makary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/washington-watch\/96226?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2021-12-16&amp;eun=g2042099d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Top%20Cat%20HeC%20%202021-12-16&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">told<\/a> the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.house.gov\/subcommittee-activity\/hearings\/global-crisis-needs-global-solution-urgent-need-accelerate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearing<\/a>, entitled \u201cA Global Crisis Needs a Global Solution: The Urgent Need to Accelerate Vaccinations Around the World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet dozens of colleges and universities have already announced this as a requirement,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe need precise medical guidance, not blanket medical guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the U.S. wants to help struggling countries ration their limited vaccine supply in the midst of an epidemic, tell them to recognize natural immunity and have those who had COVID step aside in the vaccine line to protect those who are vulnerable faster with a life-saving vaccine,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 20 scientifically sound studies have demonstrated that natural immunity is as good or better than vaccinated immunity. Yet public health officials continue to ignore it,\u201d Makary declared. \u201cIn fact, they never talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire reported on Tuesday, more than 1,000 colleges across America have mandated vaccines and many are updating their requirements to include booster shots in wake of the new Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Biden administration is still pushing forth federal and private-sector COVID vaccine mandates. The Daily Wire was the first major company to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration over his vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees.<\/p>\n<p>Makary had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/monday-november-29-2021\/id1576594336?i=1000543346223\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire\u2019s \u201cMorning Wire\u201d podcast that American\u2019s should not fear the Omicron variant due to existing therapies as well natural immunity:<\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s a lot of fear about it, but historically all the variants to date of COVID, all 2000 of them, have been encompassed by natural and vaccinated immunity. So we should feel comforted in that, even though we don\u2019t have good data on whether or not this evades immune protection. And I think the other point people should know is uh, the therapeutics that we have the new antiviral drugs that are coming on and some. Of the existing medications, like fluvoxamine work against any variants. So we should feel good about our ability to fight this, if it evades immune production, which again is unlikely<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/steve-scalise-biden-dedicated-more-to-firing-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-than-finding-alternative-covid-therapies\">criticized<\/a> the Biden administration for focusing on mandates rather than alternative therapies. Scalise also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2021\/12\/15\/191460261\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cBreitbart News Daily\u201d that \u201cone of the big failures of the Biden administration is that they\u2019ve only been focused on vaccinations, but they don\u2019t want to do anything to deal with other alternatives [such as] therapeutics, natural immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no investigations or hearings that we\u2019re having on the power of natural immunity \u2014 people that got COVID and survived it \u2014 and then what does that immunity give you?\u201d he added. \u201cIt gives you a lot of ability to be safe from future variants, and yet they don\u2019t want to focus on that because I think they still want to deal with government control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a congressional hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations and other treatments on Wednesday, Dr. Marty Makary, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, slammed colleges for requiring COVID-19 vaccination boosters for young people who have previously had COVID-19 and likely already have natural immunity.\u201cThere is nothing that represents American waste, excess, and global arrogance more than requiring a young, healthy, low-risk student who had the infection in the past and already has natural immunity to get a booster,\u201d Makary told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing, entitled \u201cA Global Crisis Needs a Global Solution: The Urgent Need to Accelerate Vaccinations Around the World.\u201cYet dozens of colleges and universities have already announced this as a requirement,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe need precise medical guidance, not blanket medical guidance.\u201d\u201cIf the U.S. wants to help struggling countries ration their limited vaccine supply in the midst of an epidemic, tell them to recognize natural immunity and have those who had COVID step aside in the vaccine line to protect those who are vulnerable faster with a life-saving vaccine,\u201d he added.\u201cOver 20 scientifically sound studies have demonstrated that natural immunity is as good or better than vaccinated immunity. Yet public health officials continue to ignore it,\u201d Makary declared. \u201cIn fact, they never talk about it.\u201dAs The Daily Wire reported on Tuesday, more than 1,000 colleges across America have mandated vaccines and many are updating their requirements to include booster shots in wake of the new Omicron variant.Likewise, the Biden administration is still pushing forth federal and private-sector COVID vaccine mandates. The Daily Wire was the first major company to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration over his vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees.Makary had previously told The Daily Wire\u2019s \u201cMorning Wire\u201d podcast that American\u2019s should not fear the Omicron variant due to existing therapies as well natural immunity:There\u2019s a lot of fear about it, but historically all the variants to date of COVID, all 2000 of them, have been encompassed by natural and vaccinated immunity. So we should feel comforted in that, even though we don\u2019t have good data on whether or not this evades immune protection. And I think the other point people should know is uh, the therapeutics that we have the new antiviral drugs that are coming on and some. Of the existing medications, like fluvoxamine work against any variants. So we should feel good about our ability to fight this, if it evades immune production, which again is unlikely.Also on Wednesday, Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) criticized the Biden administration for focusing on mandates rather than alternative therapies. Scalise also told\u00a0\u201cBreitbart News Daily\u201d that \u201cone of the big failures of the Biden administration is that they\u2019ve only been focused on vaccinations, but they don\u2019t want to do anything to deal with other alternatives [such as] therapeutics, natural immunity.\u201d\u201cThere are no investigations or hearings that we\u2019re having on the power of natural immunity \u2014 people that got COVID and survived it \u2014 and then what does that immunity give you?\u201d he added. \u201cIt gives you a lot of ability to be safe from future variants, and yet they don\u2019t want to focus on that because I think they still want to deal with government control.\u201dThe Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by\u00a0signing our petition\u00a0to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}