{"id":832041,"date":"2021-09-30T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=832041"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:43:37","slug":"becerra-wont-apologize-for-suggesting-covid-19-survivors-who-didnt-get-vaccine-are-like-flat-earthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/becerra-wont-apologize-for-suggesting-covid-19-survivors-who-didnt-get-vaccine-are-like-flat-earthers\/","title":{"rendered":"Becerra Won\u2019t Apologize For Suggesting COVID-19 Survivors Who Didn\u2019t Get Vaccine Are Like \u2018Flat-Earthers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fbecerra-wont-apologize-for-suggesting-covid-19-survivors-who-didnt-get-vaccine-are-like-flat-earthers%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=832041&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, following a tense exchange with Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at a hearing Thursday, wouldn\u2019t apologize for his past remarks suggesting COVID-19 survivors who don\u2019t get vaccinated are like \u201cflat-earthers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becerra blamed \u201cflat-earthers\u201d who \u201cchoose to peddle fiction\u201d for the increase in COVID-19 infections among unvaccinated people during an online forum Sept. 21 hosted by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, the Courier-Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/ky-legislature\/2021\/09\/21\/top-us-health-official-flat-earthers-hurting-covid-vaccine-rates\/5797328001\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cFlat earthers \u2014 meet delta,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul went after Becerra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4979775\/senator-paul-asserts-natural-immunity-good-covid-19-vaccine\">during his appearance<\/a> before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for \u201ccompletely ignoring the science on natural immunity \u2026 despite the large body of scientific evidence\u201d in favor of naturally acquired immunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to apologize to the 100 million Americans who suffered through COVID, survived, have immunity, and yet you want to hold them down and vaccinate them? Do you want to apologize for calling those people flat-earthers?\u201d Paul asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe follow the facts and the science at HHS,\u201d Becerra responded, dodging the senator\u2019s question. \u201cWe use the expertise of the medical professionals and the scientists at HHS to make decisions, and we rely on what is on the ground showing results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcept for the dozens and dozens of studies \u2014 in fact most, if not all, studies show robust immunity from getting the disease naturally,\u201d Paul interjected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re selectively doing this because you want us to submit to your will,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou have no scientific background, no scientific degrees, and yet you aren\u2019t really concerned about the 100 million Americans who had the disease. You just want to tell us: do as you\u2019re told. That\u2019s what you\u2019re telling us. You want to mandate this on all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The efficacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/vac-gen\/immunity-types.htm\">natural immunity<\/a>, or protection from a disease through prior infection, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/cdc-guidance-natural-immunity-covid-19-coronavirus\/\">been the subject of<\/a> public health debates during the pandemic. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/574284-natural-covid-19-immunity-is-powerful-but-kind-of-irrelevant\">health experts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/09\/29\/natural-immunity-public-health\/\">media outlets<\/a> have argued that natural immunity is a \u201cmisleading\u201d term or \u201cirrelevant\u201d against vaccination. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/16\/ron-johnson-vaccine-mandate-natural-immunity-letter-covid-19-coronavirus\/\">(RELATED: Sen. Ron Johnson Demands Answers On Study Of COVID-19 Natural Immunity)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/25\/natural-immunity-coronavirus-vaccine-experts-weigh-in\/\">scientific studies<\/a> have indicated that recovery from COVID-19 grants a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/25\/covid-19-coronavirus-reinfection-vaccine-vaccination-natural-immunity-science\/\">fairly robust level<\/a> of natural immunity against future infection, particularly in younger people. Two studies in May concluded that natural immunity in individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 could last <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/natural-immunity-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine\/\">more than one year<\/a> after infection.<\/p>\n<p>A landmark Israeli study published in August <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/28\/natural-immunity-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-israeli-study\/\">found<\/a> that vaccinated individuals who never had COVID-19 were 13 times more likely to receive a breakthrough infection than unvaccinated individuals who had been infected and recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, following a tense exchange with Republican Kentucky Sen. 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