Tobacco Science?

To the Editor:

After reading your response to the question that Travis Franklin from La Grange posed in last week’s paper, I have a few questions.

Since you are a journalist, I am sure you researched data for his question. You responded referencing studies. I would like to know which studies you are referring to. Studies, experiments, testing, or even people at large can just say something is correct but in reality have nothing to back up their statement? Let the truth be known, both vaccines and this virus have not been out long enough for long-term studies to validate accurate data.

When we’re told vaccines are safe and effective and we’re not told they have risks and we’re not given that piece of the puzzle, this becomes that which is coined “tobacco science.” In addition, if vaccines work so well, why is their a concern about the unvaccinated?

Patricia Good

Warrenton

Editor’s note: The Center for Disease Control released a series of wide-ranging studies on Sept. 11 showing unvaccinated people more than four times more likely to contract Covid and 11 times more likely to die from it than those fully vaccinated. That data seems to match the observations of local doctors and the St. Marks CEO (as it related to local people hospitalized for covid) that we’ve reported in the newspaper.