COVID Booster Shots for All Americans, Starting Sept. 20 (Increased risk of severe disease among those vaccinated early)

drugs.com ^ | 08.19.2021 | Dennis Thompson and Robin Foster

[rxsid]

COVID Booster Shots for All Americans, Starting Sept. 20

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18, 2021 -- After concluding that a third dose of a coronavirus vaccine is needed to fight off waning immunity in the fully vaccinated, the Biden administration said Wednesday it will begin offering booster shots to all Americans starting Sept. 20.

The plan, which only involves the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at this point, calls for Americans to get a booster shot eight months after their second dose. The officials said they expect a booster shot will be needed for people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but they are still reviewing data on it and will announce plans at a later date.

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"The available data make very clear that protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection begins to decrease over time following the initial doses of vaccination, and in association with the dominance of the Delta variant, we are starting to see evidence of reduced protection against mild and moderate disease," a joint statement released Wednesday from eight top public health and medical experts said. "For that reason, we conclude that a booster shot will be needed to maximize vaccine-induced protection and prolong its durability."

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Those who signed the statement include Murthy; Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

During Wednesday's media briefing, Fauci noted that regardless of the variant involved, the antibody levels against those variants decline over time.

New data came in three U.S. studies published Wednesday in the CDC publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and the results were troubling: Protection against the coronavirus from vaccines declined in July, when the highly contagious Delta variant began to dominate in the United States.

• One study, from New York, was the first to measure vaccine protection against coronavirus infection across an entire state amid the spread of the Delta variant. Researchers found a modest drop in effectiveness — from 92% in May to 80% in late July. Twenty percent of new infections and 15% of hospitalizations were among vaccinated people.
• The second report found effectiveness against infection declined for nursing home residents after Delta emerged. It dropped from 75% in March through May to 53% in June and July.
• The third study, an analysis of patients at 21 hospitals in 18 states, found steady protection against hospitalization. Effectiveness held at 86%, even in the months when Delta was raging. For adults who do not have compromised immune systems, effectiveness stayed steady at 90%.

"The data we will publish today and next week demonstrate that vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection is waning," Walensky said during Wednesday's briefing.

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"Additionally, reports from our international colleagues, including Israel, suggest increased risk of severe disease among those vaccinated early," she added. "Given this body of evidence, we are concerned that the current strong protection against severe infection, hospitalization and death could decrease in the months ahead, especially among those who are at higher risk or who were vaccinated earlier during the phases of our vaccination rollout."

[rxsid]

Related...

Reports Of Vaccinated Breakthrough Cases/Hospitalizations/Deaths Are On The Rise - Sharply last month

A sampling of stories from around the country, and world.

When looking at stories, or data, keep in mind the timeframe. Is the data they are sharing/reporting regarding the entire vaccination timeline (from Jan), when there were far fewer variants and far fewer participating in the experimental injections? Or, is it what's happening recently, in the last week or last month with a growing pool of variants and participents in the experiments?

The following are about the current surge and whether or not the EUA injections are loosing effectiveness.

• New Report Stuns The World: The Vast Majority Of Those Now Dying With Covid Are People Who Were VACCINATED Against It (07.02.2021)

• Covid Surges in Many Highly Vaccinated Populations At The Same Time The 15 Least Vaccinated Countries Don‘t Seem To Face Any Problem. (07.16.2021)

• 40% of people being admitted to hospital with Corinavirus have been double jabbed (UK) (07.19.2021)

• Scotland Confirms 5,522 Deaths Within 4 Weeks of ‘Vaccination’ in a Population Smaller Than Minnesota (07.19.2021)

• 6th fully vaccinated Texas Democrat lawmaker tests positive for COVID-19 (07.20.2021)

• Massachusetts reports 716 new COVID-19 breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals (07.21.2021)

• Coronavirus in Israel: What do we know about the 143 hospitalized people? Of the 143 hospitalized patients, 58% were vaccinated, 39% were not at all, and 3% were partially vaccinated. (07.21.2021)

• 42 people quarantined amid COVID-19 outbreak at San Antonio assisted living facility, officials confirm (38 of the 42 vaccinated) (07.22.2021)

• ‘Vast majority’ of Covid-19 cluster in Cape Cod were vaccinated (07.22.2021)

• ANOTHER fully-vaccinated congressional aide tests positive for COVID: 'Unease' sweeps the Capitol as breakthrough infections rise, lines for testing grow and more staffers mask up (07.23.2021)

• Sen. Ron Johnson: Data From Israel Shows 84% Of New COVID Cases Are Vaccinated Individuals (07.22.2021)

• Defense Department has had about 2,000 breakthrough Covid cases (07.23.2021)

• Psaki refuses to answer question on WH ‘breakthrough’ Covid cases… (‘Why do you need that information?’) (07.23.2021)

• 27 deaths among 1,000+ ‘breakthrough’ cases COVID-19 cases reported in Tennessee - 195 hospitalizations (07.24.2021)

• ADHS: COVID-19 cases among vaccinated in Arizona now at 11% - was 5% last month - 4,403 breakthrough cases, 34 deaths (07.24.2021)

• Hoboken COVID Cases Show 'Uptick' Including Among Vaccinated - July cases: 32 vax'd, 26 unvax'd (07.24.2021)

• Island Continues to See Breakthrough Covid Cases - Martha's Vineyard - 10 new cases - 6 fully vax'd adults, 4 kids under 10 y.o. no vax (07.26.2021)

• Higher COVID Rate Found In Some Counties With Higher Vaccination Rate – Why, And What It Says About The Delta Variant (07.26.2021)

• New Evidence Suggests COVID Vaccine May *SPREAD* the Virus: NBC News Report Deleted from USA Today Article (See below article) (07.27.2021)

• [Vax'd not just contracting Covid-19 but could potentially infect others - Vax'd who become infected have just as much viral load as the UnVax'd] (07.27.2021)

• CDC needs to start tracking all Covid breakthrough infections, Gottlieb says (07.28.2021)

• Despite low vaccination rate, health official says Hardin County sees few COVID cases (OH) (07.28.2021)

• Breakthrough COVID-19 cases rising in Jefferson County: What vaccinated people need to know - Louisville breakthrough cases - 312 in just last month, ~15% of hospitalizations (07.28.2021)

• Breakthrough cases: Over 25% of new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County are fully vaccinated people - Up from 20% in June (07.28.2021)

• 160 Dead, 650 Hospitalized in Illinois Breakthrough COVID Cases (07.29.2021)

• SF General and UCSF Staff COVID-19 Infections Raise Concern About Rate of Breakthrough Cases - About 80% new cases in July were vax'd (08.01.2021)

• Sunriver Family Reunion Leads To Breakthrough COVID Cases, Hospitalizations (OR) - 62% of the covid infections from the reunion of 28 were vax'd, some of those hospitalized. (Aug 2 2021)

• Breakthrough COVID Cases Among Those Fully Vaccinated Are Rising In Colorado - 20% new cases in first 3 weeks in July were vax'd. (08.02.2021)

• Ocean County got about 100 COVID-19 ‘breakthrough’ infections in the past week (NJ) - 3X more breakthrough cases in last week, than previous ~28 weeks combined. (08.02.2021)

•     **** The Following Is From The Most Recent Week ****

• Quick update on the Israeli vaccine data - It is bad and getting worse. - Older vax'd - 12 fold increase in "serious illness" in last month (08.03.2021)

• New study shows updated numbers for breakthrough cases in Lexington (KY) - Nearly 30% new cases last month were vax'd. (08.03.2021)

• Massachusetts breakthrough coronavirus cases jump 1,364 in one week, state’s daily infection tally up 883 amid delta spike - About 1/3 of new cases in last few weeks are vax'd. (08.03.2021)

• Despite breakthrough cases and deaths, Utah doctors continue to push vaccination - 3 out of 5 (60%) covid deaths over the weekend were fully vax'd. (08.03.2021)

• Roanoke-area rise in COVID-19 is accompanied by increase in breakthrough cases (VA) - Of the past week’s increase of 371 new cases, and 31 hospitalized, 19% of those two groups are vax'd - Up from 1-3% in previous weeks (08.03.2021)

• Almost 1 in 5 new virus cases in Fredericksburg district are among vaccinated (08.03.2021)

• With 165 cases, Dare County reports 5th highest week of new COVID-19 cases since pandemic began (NC) - 22% were vax'd. The same week last year had a total of 43 positive cases. (08.03.2021)

• S. Korea reports more than 1,100 breakthrough infections, 8 patients in critical condition - The tally is sharply up from 779 a week earlier - A 41% increase from previous week. (08.03.2021)

• Summer volleyball tournaments lead to COVID clusters, including several breakthrough cases - 106 total attendee's from HI, 30 covid positive - 19% and 36% were fully vax'd between two venues. (08.05.2021)

• 8 Mass. fire departments report breakthrough COVID-19 cases - They're seeing a "recent uptick", sent out an alert. (08.06.2021)

• Milton seeing rise in COVID-19 cases, about half in vaccinated residents (MA) - ~65% of town is vax'd. About 50% of new covid cases in last 2 weeks are vax'd. (08.06.2021)

• About Moderna adverse event reports - Received 300,000 reports of side effects after vax over a 3-month period following the launch of its shot, according to internal report from a company that helps Moderna manage the reports.(08.06.2021)

• Majority of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients at Hospital in Israel Are Fully Vaccinated: Doctor - 85-90% hospitilizations and 95% of severe patients are fully vax'd. Hospital specializes in nursing care for elderly. (08.07.2021)

• COVID: San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants Temporarily Close Due to Breakthrough Cases Among Staff - 100% new covid cases from vax'd. 3 area restaurants in story, 7 total new covid infections among all staff, all staff were required to be vax'd. Citywide, 78% of all eligible SF is vax'd. (08.08.2021)

• State leaders report 36 breakthrough cases at two Southern W.Va. nursing homes - 69% of the 52 "active" cases were vax'd. (08.09.2021)

• Covid Cases Keep Climbing; More Clusters Reported (Martha’s Vineyard) - Of 48 new cases during first week of Aug, 52% were fully vax'd. (08.09.2021)

• CDC Director Admits Claim That Over 99% of In-Hospital Covid Deaths Were Among Unvaccinated People Was Junk - Instead, the actual data was 30X more than stated. 15% of Covid in-hospital deaths in May were vax'd. (08.09.2021)

• [The latest seven-day COVID-19 data for El Paso was released Monday, August 9] - 29% of new cases and 14% death rate were fully vax'd. (08.09.2021)

• NY COVID Hospitalizations Up 229% in Month; Severe Breakthrough Rate Rising in NJ NJ - 18.5% of all new COVID cases, fully vax'd, July 20 - 26. Hospitilization among vax'd Jan - July 26 = 0.004%, from July 20 - July 26 = 3% (74,900% increase). (08.09.2021)

• Don’t Panic, But Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You’ve Been Told Current public-health messaging may understate the scale and risk. No good tracking. Every indicator suggests there’s a lot more under the radar than is public. (08.12.2021)

• EXCLUSIVE: At least 74 people on Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for Covid-19 since Barack Obama's maskless 60th birthday bash - the most cases on the island since April (08.13.2021)

• 7 Vaccinated Florida Patients Die of COVID; Nurse Calls Situation 'Disturbing' - All in past 2 weeks. Had treated "hundreds" of COVID patients before & hadn't lost one prior to this.(08.17.2021)

• Hawaii whistleblower: 'More patients dying from vaccine than Covid' - Say's he saw 32 elderly people pass away immediately after taking the Moderna vaccine. Also, medical diagnosis codes changed from other diseases to Covid for billing.(08.17.2021)

• Massive fraud in reporting vaccine injuries; withheld data, pretense of “safe and effective” - EudraVigilance (EU, EEA, Switzerland), MHRA (UK) and VAERS (USA) data, Moderna internal data. (08.17.2021)

Keep in mind, the covid vaccines were given emergency use authorization to "prevent" covid...NOT to reduce hospitalizations or deaths.

Pfizer's EUA:
"the FDA decision is based on the totality of scientific evidence available showing that the product may be effective to prevent COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the known and potential benefits of the product outweigh the known and potential risks of the product. All of these criteria must be met to allow for the product to be used in the treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 EUA declaration justifying emergency use of these products, unless terminated or revoked (after which the products may no longer be used)."

Moderna's EUA: "Having concluded that the criteria for issuance of this authorization under Section 564(c) of the Act are met, I am authorizing the emergency use of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19"

Janssens's EUA: "On February 27, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for emergency use of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 for individuals 18 years of age and older pursuant to Section 564 of the Act."

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COVID Booster Shots for All Americans, Starting Sept. 20 (Increased risk of severe disease among those vaccinated early)

[ifinnegan]

Get yer Boo$ter $hot.

[Gene Eric]

ibtvh

[rktman]

ALL Americans? I know of two that ain’t for sure.

[PMAS]

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[HighSierra5]

It’s been going on two years and I haven’t got sick. I didn’t get the jab and will not.

[yoe]

Thanks for all your hard work rxsid...have filed it for future research........

[Sarah Barracuda]

Wont touch this crap. Got fully vaccinated May 8th, Im done no more. I was already a guinea pig for this garbage, wont be doing it again

[frogjerk]

Is this so-called booster shot tailored to the Delta variant or is it just more of the same?

[LilFarmer]

Bkmk

[rxsid]

"It’s been going on two years and I haven’t got sick. I didn’t get the jab and will not."

Me either. Even though, we had covid in the house. Our youngest got a mild case in Dec 2020. Nobody else in the family got it, no special precautions taken.

[DoughtyOne]

Ten months from now.

Severe risk for those who only got the first two vaccine shots,
and the booster.

This is getting tedious.

[eyeamok]

One heck of a vaccine you got there, seems to be “breakthrough cases” are the ONLY cases of the Fauci Flu and in some countries the “breakthrough cases” is 95% of the sick.

When will they stop the madness and actually follow KNOWN SCIENCE?

[frogjerk]

You probably had it and didn’t know how much you were teetering on the very edge of death. You were playing Russian roulette with all us. Your insolence and total disregard for the human race is disgusting and beyond the pale. You make me want to vomit my guts out. - Love Karen

[silverleaf]

The vaxxxed face disease more severe than those not vaccinated?

Hmmmm.

[dontreadthis]

the longer we go without getting sick, the greater the chance that we’ve been exposed to viral loads that aren’t big enough to make us sick and allow us to develop natural immunity

[rxsid]

"Is this so-called booster shot tailored to the Delta variant or is it just more of the same?"

FWIW:

Moderna says its Covid vaccine booster produced ‘robust’ immune response against delta

• Moderna said its Covid-19 vaccine booster shot produced a “robust” antibody response against the highly contagious delta variant.
• In a phase two trial, Moderna is testing a 50-microgram dose of three vaccine booster candidates in previously vaccinated individuals.
• The data has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication, it said.

 

IMO, delta will be old news in about 4 - 8 weeks and NOT because of any booster injection program.

The countless thousands of walking covid lamba vectors pouring through the 1,954 mile southern welcoming office every day will be the "talk of the town" next.

SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance (vaccine resistance)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3984836/posts?page=15#15

[rxsid]

[Texas Fossil]

Errr NO.

Absolutely NO.

No Period. End Trans.

I’ve gotten along fine without it up to now, not starting this nonsense.