Should people who have recovered from COVID-19 and are naturally immune be expected to get vaccinated?
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of CaliforniaโIrvine, is adamant that they should not. Heโs suing the school systemโs president and Board of Regents over its coronavirus vaccination mandate.
โIโm going to be excluded or another natural immune person is going to be excluded from coming to campus, from going to school, or from working at the university because we have immunity thatโs conferred by having had the virus [rather than] โฆ immunity conferred by the vaccine,โ he said.
In this interview, he explains how certain data being used to justify mandatory vaccination isnโt all that it seems. For example, the numbers on children and adolescents being hospitalized for COVID-19, for example, can be inflated by the way that theyโre measured.
Beyond any function they serve in curbing spread of the virus, mandatory measures,ย Dr. Aaron Kheriaty argues, pose a serious and long-standing danger to peopleโs basic rights to privacy and freedom.