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July 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A doctor and professor of preventive medicine told CNN earlier this month that unvaccinated Americans are “potential variant factories,” insinuating that Americans who haven’t gotten the jab are responsible for the COVID-19 variants that allegedly threaten even “fully vaccinated” people.
“Unvaccinated people are potential variant factories,” said Dr. William Schaffner, who is a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
“The more unvaccinated people there are, the more opportunities for the virus to multiply,” Schaffner told CNN, adding that “[w]hen it does, it mutates, and it could throw off a variant mutation that is even more serious down the road.”
Schaffner’s comments came just days before July 4, by which time the Biden administration had hoped to vaccinate 70 percent of the U.S. population. Despite falling short of that goal, the CDC reported at the time that 67 percent of adult Americans had received at least one dose of the injection, with 47 percent having taken both doses.
Schaffner’s remarks contribute to the narrative that the alleged proliferation of new coronavirus variants ought to prod the vast majority
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