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The Science Says Everyone Needs a COVID-19 Booster Shot—and Soon
Foreign Policy ^ | July 2021 | Laurie Garrett

Posted on 08/01/2021 2:43:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Sure enough, the United States is again awash in virus, with the incidence of new COVID-19 cases having soared 131 percent in the third week of July. To be clear, the vaccines available work well—especially the Pfizer and Moderna products based on mRNA technology. But it is likely that waning vaccine efficacy, coupled with a stubborn one-fifth of the adult population refusing any immunization, has opened the door for the dangerous mutant delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to wreak havoc among the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

That’s why the United States is going to need a third dose of mRNA vaccines; for the nation’s older population, the triple play is already overdue. “I don’t see the virus just disappearing,” said Stanley Plotkin, considered the godfather of vaccinology. The University of Pennsylvania vaccine inventor and immunologist told me that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should comply with requests from Pfizer, following Israel’s example, and immediately approve third-dose immunization for adults over the age of 60, with general triple dosing for all Americans to follow.

The data from vaccinated Israeli medical staff shows that while breakthrough infections aren’t life-threatening, they are also not benign: 19 percent of cases led to so-called “long-haul COVID-19,” featuring months of difficult symptoms that can include acute fatigue, depression, loss of stamina and muscle strength, brain fog, and other challenging disabilities.

A multinational study of six months’ use of two-dose Pfizer vaccine also found that efficacy wanes with time, from about 97 percent to a low of 86 percent—still robust. But none of the work involved delta variant exposure.

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: booster; fakenews; fakescience; lauriegarrett; pfizer; sciencefiction; trumpvaccine
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That would be because the Covid “vaccines” destroy your immune systsem.

“Top scientist & Canadian PM announce plan for every person to be forcibly injected 10 times a year!”

https://banned.video/watch?id=60f89c07b4c876043c591c8a


Thanks


81 posted on 08/01/2021 4:47:55 PM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31 )
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To: Jane Long

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/18/trump-is-guilty-of-pandemicide/

There are so many lies and so much BS in this article that it is simply beyond belief that the Columnist would present it for public consumption.


82 posted on 08/01/2021 5:11:23 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

People who believe the world is grossly overpopulated want us to take experimental vaccines. Right now, and again next year. They won’t tell us what’s in them, and they won’t let us sue the manufacturers if the shots harm us. It is very important to these people that we all take these experimental shots and that we not ask any questions. I wonder why?


83 posted on 08/01/2021 5:13:53 PM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Foreign Affairs is a ass. All competent scientists know there is no such thing as “the science.” Science says nothing about anything. It is not a personification of a being. It is an abstract idea. It is scientists who say things, and scientists are a noisy, raucous, disputatious lots who agree on very little.


84 posted on 08/01/2021 5:26:22 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Diogenesis

“Science” would not do a damn thing because science is not an active agency. Some scientist somewhere could do those things.


85 posted on 08/01/2021 5:27:46 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Da science.LOL.


86 posted on 08/01/2021 5:30:29 PM PDT by Stentor ( )
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To: BradyLS
People in offices and agencies who had no trouble lying to you before now sweartagod they’re telling YOU the truth about the ‘rona.

This time it's different. HAHAHAHAHA.

87 posted on 08/01/2021 5:36:13 PM PDT by Stentor ( )
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Cha-Ching!


88 posted on 08/01/2021 5:45:29 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Amendment10
...from about 97 percent to a low of 86 percent.

If you accept the 97% number to begin with, it drops to close to the Tess Lawrie team's meta analysis of the efficacy of Ivermectin.

89 posted on 08/01/2021 5:52:29 PM PDT by Stentor ( )
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To: Stentor; All
"If you accept the 97% number to begin with, it drops to close to the Tess Lawrie team's meta analysis of the efficacy of Ivermectin."

Good! More clues.

90 posted on 08/01/2021 6:04:07 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Metrobank

I think it’s the official organ of the CFR.


91 posted on 08/01/2021 6:18:39 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: lastchance
1933 when the then unidentified Hantavirus disappeared from the American south west, only to reappear 60 years later.
92 posted on 08/01/2021 6:43:49 PM PDT by radmanptn
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To: radmanptn

If memory serves the virus did remain in the prairie dog population. Also I did think he meant disappeared as in go away forever. I forgot it could mean became dormant.


93 posted on 08/01/2021 6:55:33 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Science?
Booster shot?
F-you.


94 posted on 08/01/2021 8:02:59 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Unfortunately, what I see unfolding here is much scarier that either “side” (pro-vax/anti-vax) is saying. The fear that I have is that the virus will mutate into more virulent strains that would normally die out (via killing the host before it can spread) but instead continue to spread via the vaccinated, until they hit the unvaccinated, with dire consequences.


95 posted on 08/01/2021 9:37:31 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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