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WARNING FOR IMMEDIATE CORRECTION — WSJ Editorial Falsehood Re: Susceptibility of COVID-Recovered To Re-infection
The WSJ editorial board has published an absolute falsehood regarding the susceptibility of COVID-recovered and immune Americans to subsequent infection. This letter demanding a correction or retraction was sent to the editorial board and a few prominent WSJ reporters.
Hooman Noorchashm
11 hours ago·3 min read
Messrs., Gigot, Murrary, Henninger and colleagues,
Today, I was shocked to read what I know, with 100% certainty as an immunologist and physician, is a lie in the WSJ’s Editorial Board OpEd on COVID-19:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-d...=hp_opin_pos_1
Specifically, your colleagues are stating the following falsehood:
“Previously infected individuals appear to be more susceptible to re-infection by the Delta variant, which could explain some of the rising cases.”
This WSJ editorial statement is a dangerous lie, with NO basis in either current scientific epidemiological data or the fundamentals of immunology.
To the contrary, the the bulk of studies on the topic of “re-infection” in the COVID-recovered, are demonstrating that individuals who are COVID-recovered and have thus acquired Antibody and T-cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2, are equally if not better protected from subsequent infection as compared to the vaccinated. Though I am cognizant this fact ought NOT be abused as an argument for seeking natural infection as a pathway to immunity, it IS the argument for not allowing coercion of COVID-recovered Americans into undergoing what is an unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatment to them.
I am left wondering why the editorial board of a respected media outlet like the WSJ would allow itself to spread such a lie with no stringent verification:
1) Are you simply careless journalists now? or
2) Are you now active participants in the US Government’s publicity machine attempting to impose a “one-size-fits-all” vaccine policy on all Americans, irrespective of medical necessity, the fundamentals of immunological science and medical ethics?
Irrespective of what the reason is for the lie you have now published in today’s editorial article, it is an absolute journalistic duty for you to either correct or retract this false statement immediately— given that you have been alerted to it...
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