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Scientists Say Most People Don’t Need COVID Booster Shots
An all-star panel of scientists said that most people won’t be needing COVID booster shots. The simple reason is that vaccines already work to provide protection. Instead of promoting COVID booster shots, governments should focus on convincing unvaccinated citizens to give COVID vaccines a shot.
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Wait For More Data On Booster Shots
The panel of scientists included two prominent US Food and Drug Administration experts. They suggested that governments should wait for more data. Studies can eventually show which boosters (and at what doses) can be most effective.
Publishing their findings in The Lancet, the panel based their assessment using real-world studies and clinical trial data. COVID vaccines reported an average of 95% effectiveness against severe disease.
This covers more infectious variants such as delta. It is also more than 80% effective at preventing any infection. Even in countries with high vaccination rates, the unvaccinated are the ones driving the transmission. In addition, this means that unvaccinated people have the highest risk of becoming severely ill.
“None of the studies has provided credible evidence of substantially declining protection against severe disease” the panel concluded. They also said that when health officials introduced boosters too soon or too broadly, people could develop additional side effects.
Should Countries Allocate Stocks As COVID Booster Shots?
Many countries with enough COVID-19 vaccine supplies are debating on whether to allocate some of their stock for COVID booster shots. These boosters can prop up immunity especially against new variants that recently cropped up.
For example, the US plans to roll out COVID booster shots beginning September 20. However, the plan needs a go-ahead from both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
On the topic of COVID boosters, scientists remain divided on the topic. Azra Ghani is a chair in infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College London. He is not part of the panel review but gave his two cents.
There is no one size fits all approach for the virus. In addition, even a small reduction in efficacy against the spread of Covid can strain a healthcare system.
Blow to Biden’s Bid for COVID Booster Shots
After the publication of the panel’s report, shares of biotech and pharma companies involved with the vaccines fell. BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer to produce an FDA-approved vaccine, fell by 7.7%.
Pfizer also fell by 2.5%. Moderna, another vaccine maker, slipped by 7.7% as well. AstraZeneca also lost 1.2% in value yesterday.
The report also represents a serious blow to President Joe Biden’s bid to implement a COVID booster program. He decided to go ahead after conferring with top White House health experts.
This includes CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock.
The advisers said at the time that data supported the need for boosters. However, they insisted that regulators will need to sign off on the plan. Many outside the administration questioned the need for boosters, especially since vaccines are in short supply globally.
In fact, the World Health Organization called for a moratorium on boosters until more people outside of rich countries can get initial vaccine doses. “Even if boosting were eventually shown to decrease the medium-term risk of serious disease, current vaccine supplies could save more lives if used in previously unvaccinated populations,” the authors wrote.
COVID Booster Panel
In Europe, the UK will soon issue a government advisory panel decision on whether to issue a third vaccine booster dose. The country, along with many EU nations, is already providing COVID booster shots to patients with severely compromised immune systems. Similarly, the European Medicines Agency is also reviewing booster data from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
Among the star-studded panel behind The Lancet’s article are heavy hitters from the vaccine world. This includes Marion Gruber, head of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review.
Her deputy, Philip Krause is also a panel member. The WHO’s Soumya Swaminathan, Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo, and Mike Ryan also worked on the review.
Watch the Bloomberg Markets and Finance video reporting that the WHO warns against booster shots, as they raise the risk of more variants:
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Many immunization regimens involve three exposures to the antigen (vaccine) An initial dose, a second dose four/six/eight weeks later and then a third dose (rapelle in Fr. or recall) to complete the series. Covid may need this BUT WE DO NOT KNOW. Let’s complete the studies and continue immunizing VULNERABLE populations.
I’ll think about getting the first shot in about 5 years after I see what the ill effects of the original shots are in sheeple,…..I mean people look like!
My girlfriend and I both had the virus . We are both still very much alive.. I isolated myself but continued to exercise which included weight lifting sparring on my heavy bag and riding my bicycle every day… we have both since been exposed to other people with Covid and did not get sick again I’m not taking the fucking vaccine or even considering listening to a bunch of incompetent jackasses that should be on trial for treason If you were vaccinated and I’m not we should both be safe …..no ????
I took the Pfizer vaccine. They gave us an information packet that said there is NO VACCINE TO PREVENT COVID – 19. WTF.
99.97% of the population doesn’t need a “vaccine” much less a booster!
The current government of the U.S. seems to want to control you in everything you do. And in this case they want to use it to make money and to control where you can go.
Side note: The new ‘reconciliation’ bill the Dems are trying to pass, the 10,000 page, $3,500,000,000,000.00 one, has a section in it which orders the IRS to set up full time surveillance on any bank account that ever has over $600.00 in it. According to the people on the radio, that would be 80% of the bank accounts in the U.S.
So, the IRS would be tasked with tracking everything that Americans spend their money on. Whether or not you are okay with the government spying on you, would you want to have to pay someone to do it?
Just take a real long look at biden’s history of his accomplishments over 40 some years! Now take a real long look at this guy straight into his eyes. Now tell me, do really see trust in this guy? I am telling you, SNAKE OIL SALESMEN!!!! Run from him as fast as your legs will carry you!!! Creepy Dude!
It’s tedious and sometimes quite difficult, but only need to “FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL!!!” If enough of the evidence points to wrong doing, then guess what? The politicians are lying to us!! Funny how so much evidence is being sequestered or discredited, when the disinformation is actually being spread by the liberal zealots and the multi billionaire cronies.
Most people don’t realize…the door was opened when Obamacare won. How anti American to FORCE the influenza vaccine…hear me out, in the Obamacare plan is the demand for any Medicare or Medicaid receiving facility to have at least 90% of the staff vaccinated with the influenza vaccine. WHY? Why would government care? Why would they specifically mention influenza vax? It goes on to say that payments to facilities that don’t meet the 90% will be decreased. So, another form of government controlled healthcare. Politicians punish the health facilities if they don’t force or bully staff into the influenza vax.
Now take a look into the lobbyists and big dollar supporters
and it becomes clear that the vax is connected to profits!!!
Gee. Do we see same thing happening today? It is on a much grander scale now and much larger dollar amounts