COVID AND THE VACCINE - TRUTH, LIES, AND MISCONCEPTIONS REVEALED, page-53975

the following from the ABC/RMIT fact checking unit Checkmate, published in their weekly report issued Friday.

this report goes directly to some of the garbage posted on HC threads by antivaxx muppets and twerps.

CHECKMATE:

"Infectious disease experts have shot down claims spreading online that repeated COVID-19 vaccinations have led to weaker immune systems and higher rates of reinfections.

"."The more covid the worse the reinfection rate seems to be. Is that what you see?" one post reads.

"Another says: "The more shots, the sicker the people get because of lower immune systems. The more injections, the more infections and transmissions."

"But as RMIT FactLab recently found, those claims are false.

"According to experts, there was no correlation between COVID-19 vaccinations and reinfections.

"Infectious disease physician Paul Griffin, an associate professor at the University of Queensland, explained to FactLab that there was "no reduction in the immune system by being vaccinated".

""The intent of vaccination is to train or prime the immune system to be able to respond more quickly and more effectively against the virus without the risk of having the disease itself."

"[The reinfection rate is] largely driven by the new [Omicron] subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 that are not only more infectious, but evade protection from past infection and to a degree from vaccination," Professor Griffin said.

"Epidemiologist Catherine Bennett, of the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University, also dismissed the claim, saying: "[There is] no basis to this bizarre link being made.""