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Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf (Photo courtesy Nathan Neudorf, UCP)

Lethbridge-East MLA denies advocating for COVID case spike in unvaccinated

Aug 30, 2021 | 2:27 PM

EDMONTON – The chairman of Alberta’s United Conservative caucus is denying he said he wanted more unvaccinated people to catch COVID-19 so the province could attain herd immunity.

Nathan Neudorf says he wants cases to go down and that getting more people vaccinated is the best way to achieve that.

On Friday, Neudorf, the legislature member for Lethbridge-East, told a local news program he hoped Alberta would see a rise in COVID-19 cases among the unvaccinated.

He told the program that having infections sweep through unprotected people could result in herd immunity, leaving the virus with no one else to infect and thereby causing cases to fall.