A public health expert at Michigan State University is pleading with medical professionals to “stop calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated” after catching the omicron variant of COVID-19 at a wedding where vaccinations were strictly enforced.
Debra Furr-Holden, 47, an epidemiologist who is the associate Dean of Public Health Integration at Michigan State University, caught COVID-19 after attending a wedding with over 100 people in Milwaukee, Wisc. She and several others caught COVID despite everyone at the wedding receiving vaccinations.
“I’ll give people a cautionary tale,” Furr-Holden
said to ABC 7 News. “If a group of medical professionals and public health professionals can’t prevent spread at a social gathering, it’s just the luck of the draw for everybody.”
The Milwaukee wedding, which was attended by many health professionals, turned into a super-spreader event that went all the way to Oakland, Calif. Furr-Holden believes it is time to retire the talking point that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated in lieu of this news.
“We need to shift the narrative and stop calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Furr-Holden said. “It doesn’t honor the fact that we’re seeing more and more breakthrough cases in the vaccinated.”
Big League Politics has reported on how countries with the highest vaccination rates are seeing COVID cases explode as Big Pharma’s experimental jabs falter: