Vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky has called on governments and media to “set the messaging straight” on vaccination, saying while it protects individuals it cannot stop transmission of COVID-19. His comments come as Australian state leaders, in the push to increase vaccination rates, have consistently reinstated the benefits of getting the jab, which has contributed to increasing divisions between vaccinated and unvaccinated segments of society. “We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the vaccines do benefit in terms of protecting the individual against serious disease, and that should always have been the messaging—that the vaccine reduces your risk of ending up in the hospital,” he told The Epoch Times. “We should stop pretending that the vaccines are actually helping prevent transmission because there is no evidence for that,” he said. “That is complete mis-messaging that we’ve heard over the last two years.” Recent comments from state leaders have put this …