However, a recent U.K. community-based population study found that those who have previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, demonstrate a lower rate of new Omicron BA.4/BA.5 infections compared to those who were vaccinated.
"The implications are impossible to ignore: Beijing hid the truth," Rubio asserted. "This report reinforces the need to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable.”
The study discovered that "the overall risk of retinal vascular occlusion in the vaccinated cohort was 2.19 times higher than that in the unvaccinated cohort at 2 years (95% Cl 2.00–2.39)."
A new document from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated the FDA does not "require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission" in order to authorize a vaccine.