Cardiologist wants immune passport, Van Gucht thinks it is nonsense

Thierry Wauters, a cardiologist from Brussels, wants to introduce a kind of immune passport. That is a document that shows whether people have been vaccinated or not. He claims that without such a passport it is not possible to verify whether someone has been vaccinated or not. “Nonsense!”, it sounds to virologist Steven Van Gucht. In HLN he explains why such a thing is not a good idea.

Thierry Wauters wants to introduce an immune passport so that they can prove whether they have been vaccinated. Because someone who has been vaccinated should not stay at home or wear a mouth mask, he thinks. Epidemiologist Yves van Laethem, the French-speaking spokesperson at the press briefings about the corona figures, has already said that such a document is not discussed. Steven Van Gucht does not support this proposal either. “Obviously, that’s a cardiologist and not an infectiologist, virologist or epidemiologist and cardiologists would stick better to cardiology because now he’s selling bullshit,” it sounds with Van Gucht.

According to Van Gucht, vaccination does not provide absolute protection against infection, but rather against worse forms of a certain disease. “Many vaccines protect us against disease, but not necessarily against infection with the virus itself”, he explains in HLN. “We do expect and hope that people with antibodies or some other form of immunity will be protected against the more severe form of the disease. That they no longer end up in the hospital. ” In addition, Van Gucht says that antibodies does not mean that you cannot be infected again. The antibodies in a person’s body can decrease, making the body susceptible to a second infection. For Van Gucht, an immune passport is clearly not an option or advantage.

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