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We Need Better Covid Booster Shots, Not More of the Same
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Posted on 04/12/2022 6:10:54 PM PDT by algore

Covid cases in the Northeast are increasing again, which has some people worried about yet another surge. This is also one of the most heavily vaccinated parts of the country.

While the Covid vaccines have been very effective at stopping hospitalization and death, it’s now clear they haven’t ended the pandemic.

And yet the scientists I spoke with in the early part of 2021 were nearly unanimous in thinking they would end the pandemic through herd immunity.

Why did they get it so wrong? Two major reasons: First, scientists vastly underestimated the ability of the virus to mutate quickly.

And second, they overestimated their ability to tweak the mRNA vaccines into forms that could conquer new variants.

But we can learn from our mistakes, and rather than expect the public to “live with the virus” protected by leaky vaccines, scientists need to keep improving our vaccines, possibly exploiting the more than 100 candidates already part or all the way through clinical trials.

Coronaviruses usually don’t mutate very fast. They don’t carry their genetic material in easily swapped out segments the way influenza viruses do — requiring a reformulated vaccine every year.

And coronaviruses have a proofreading mechanism that slows the mutation process.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: covid; vaccines
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Wow!

the msn just said 'leaky vaccine'

There is a distortion detected in the media creational field

1 posted on 04/12/2022 6:10:54 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore
Better boosters? The Jim Jones Jab did exactly what they wanted it to do.
2 posted on 04/12/2022 6:13:30 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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While the Covid vaccines have been very effective at stopping hospitalization and death, it’s now clear they haven’t ended the pandemi

Total BS

3 posted on 04/12/2022 6:13:58 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: algore

How about fauci-approved superior natural immunity?

Well, 1980s fauci

When he knew that it existed, when apparently all the doctors and scientists knew what it was and that it was the best defense agaimst diseases


4 posted on 04/12/2022 6:14:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: algore

My progression from vaccinated, to vaccine hesitant, to never again has been a long one. But I’ve never felt so free…or healthy.


5 posted on 04/12/2022 6:14:50 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: algore

We don’t need any booster shots of experimental gene therapy drugs.

These fools undermine their own arguments and are completely unaware they are doing so.


6 posted on 04/12/2022 6:15:07 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Osage Orange

Yes, keep their toxic garbage away from me and mine.


7 posted on 04/12/2022 6:17:23 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: algore

No one ever needed a Covid vaccine. The illness is treatable like flu and no worse. They faked the circumstances to push this gene therapy shot on us, calling it a ‘vaccine’ to escape all liability and reduce aversion to it. It’s a gene therapy experiment that no one needed.


8 posted on 04/12/2022 6:17:54 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Secret Agent Man

The jabs were not and do not produce what a vaccine accomplishes, therefore these jabs are first, not vaccines. Second, the boosters are designed to reduce the immune system in increments, until a common flu will kill millions nationally. We are witnessing a genocide so large that it is incredible, and too many will not believe the evil is so great.


9 posted on 04/12/2022 6:18:54 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: algore

No. We need a much better class of people in DC.

Those who will not shy away from putting America First.


10 posted on 04/12/2022 6:19:20 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: algore

What we need is an actual competent government.


11 posted on 04/12/2022 6:20:22 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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LOL


12 posted on 04/12/2022 6:27:27 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules
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To: algore

Please sir, can I have more boosters?


13 posted on 04/12/2022 6:29:14 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: algore

noe. o more, no thanks.. my blood clors enough at dialysis from the 3!


14 posted on 04/12/2022 6:34:58 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: SpaceBar

The vaccine was suppose to keep you from getting the virus. That was a complete and total failure. Now they claim the vaccine keeps people out of the hospital and keeps them from dying. They are such liars and not even good liars. It seems to me that the vaccine and boosters cause people to get the virus.


15 posted on 04/12/2022 6:37:41 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: algore

this interview allegedly went viral worldwide, but i cannot find it, except when it was replayed on the following program. the interview was a response to comments made on an AFL Footy Show Sunday night, which suggested cases of myocarditis and bells palsy post-vaccines should be investigated:

AUDIO: 12 March: 2GB: Nights with John Stanley
2hr22m46s to 2hr32m15s - interview from sister station 3AW with cardiologist Dr. Ross Walker on adverse effects of covid vaccines
https://www.2gb.com/podcast/nights-with-john-stanley-april-12th/

11 April: Daily Mail: Footy Show hosts make shocking claim Port Adelaide star Ollie Wines’ heart issues could be linked to Covid vaccines
Port Adelaide’s Ollie Wines was hospitalised during their clash with Melbourne
He suffered from nausea and dizziness before later getting heart palpitations
The panel of the Sunday Footy Show has linked his symptoms to the Covid jab
AFL great Matthew Lloyd has also linked his Bell’s palsy to the vaccinations
By JOSH ALSTON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Wines’ situation has led to plenty of online speculation that he was suffering from the heart condition myocarditis, which has been linked to Covid vaccinations in a small number of people.

The Australian Government’s Department of Health has confirmed that there is a small increased risk of pericarditis and/or myocarditis in people who have received messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines including the Pfizer and Moderna jabs...

The Advertiser has reported that an Adelaide cardiologist has ruled out myocarditis - which is an inflammation of the heart muscle - as the reason Wines was hospitalised.
Wines was released on Friday evening after the issue resolved itself, but remained under observation at
home over the weekend...

Essendon great Matthew Lloyd was recently diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis, and he said the instances of people getting the condition had increased since Covid jabs had been administered.

‘It’s not just the heart issues, without delving into your private affairs but you’ve got Bell’s palsy at the moment which hopefully you’re on the back end of, but there’s a bit of that getting around as well,’ Brown said.
Lloyd replied, ‘Heart issues and Bell’s palsy have gone through the roof since the boosters and Covid issues.’...

Brown concluded by saying the panel were not experts, but called for further research to be carried out on the links between Covid vaccines and heart conditions and Bell’s palsy...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-10704947/Footy-hosts-claim-Port-Adelaide-star-Ollie-Wines-heart-issues-linked-Covid-vaccines.html


16 posted on 04/12/2022 6:38:43 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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She overestimated this. He underestimated that. The article is an exercise in airing factors which we still haven’t been able to overcome. Nowhere does this writer say what could have been done about any of these factors. Estimate all of the factors correctly, and they still can’t be overcome.


17 posted on 04/12/2022 6:41:21 PM PDT by nagant
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MISINFORMATION! Trust the science. OBEY.


18 posted on 04/12/2022 6:42:50 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: algore

Try a Course in Anatomy and Physiology, the Human Immunological
System, and Microbiology.


19 posted on 04/12/2022 6:42:58 PM PDT by Radix (Radical X)
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To: T.B. Yoits

The Novavax shot (which has already been approved by the EU,WHO,UK,Canada and everywhere else) is still waiting for FDA approval, even though it was submitted to the FDA back in January.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/novavax-asked-the-fda-for-emergency-use-earlier-this-year-whats-the-hold-up/65-773bf297-fc5e-4b93-a4bf-a5141bc60a2b


20 posted on 04/12/2022 6:51:12 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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