Posted on 09/01/2021 2:02:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Pfizer released new data Wednesday indicating vaccine efficacy starts to decline around five to six months after the second dose, not eight months as originally thought.
It's raising questions if the three to four week gap between doses for Pfizer and Moderna was long enough to make the second shot the most effective.
"If this was a slow moving epidemic, you probably wouldn't have seen these three week gaps," said UCSF epidemiologist, Dr. George Rutherford. "You probably would've seen something longer."
"Why is that?" ABC7's Stephanie Sierra asked.
"Because it works better," he said. "If you have a little more space in between, you get over your primary immune reaction and then you're at the point where all your cells are primed and you can get a secondary immune reaction."
Rutherford says if we had a two month waiting period in between the first two doses of Pfizer and Moderna we may be in a little better place, but we will never know for certain.
"Who knows? But we would've tolerated a lot more cases getting that second dose," he said.
Rutherford says he wouldn't be surprised if a longer wait period in between doses will be recommended moving forward. Preliminary data released from Research Square Wednesday, showed a more productive antibody response from Pfizer after an eight to 16 week gap between doses - but the findings aren't yet peer reviewed.
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Actually, I think the 3 week gap was initially a minimum. They didn’t want people getting the 2nd does before that. But then for some reason, it was adopted as the suggested time, probably in a hurry to get everyone vaccinated
That sounds gross, but I’m weird myself.
I used to make Irish steel cut oats, chop up 5 hard boiled eggs, and stir it up with Frank’s hot sauce.
I’d bring it into work and nuke it for breakfast.
People walking by my desk would look disgusted and keep walking.
I used to eat a whole rotisserie chicken for lunch as well.
needless to say, I got picked on, but enjoyed it. :)
They’ll shut him down.
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Replying to @RWMaloneMD
”Paul Offit, a University of Pennsylvania infectious disease expert who sits on FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, told Politico that the move to go ahead with a potential third shot was “the administration’s booster plan; it wasn’t the FDA’s booster plan.””
Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD · 5h
when you have lost Paul Offit, you have really lost the war on this one.
(H/t Cathi)
That sounds gross ...
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If you like chocolate & like pudding, I promise it’s delish IF you let it get good and cold!
The goal posts are still moving.
Yeah, it looks like the vaxxers are batting about .000 so far with no sign of coming out of their slump.
Seems like they got more things wrong then global warming scientists?
it appears some of our citizens are willfully being used as experimental lab rats while biden freely spreads the invaders across our country during a global pandemic...
The world is now officially upside down: Evil is good and good is evil!
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-08-31-arkansas-board-investigates-doctor-saving-lives-ivermectin.html
what are your favorite ways of preparing them?
Mainly scrambled with some peppers and feta cheese on toast.
I don’t make it often, but using a muffin pan, lining the muffin cups with prosciutto and pouring the egg into it.
Bake on 350 for 20 minutes, and they’re delicious.
It was /SARCASM.
Better yet, no vax.
Thanks for this. I had one Pfizer shot with zero side effects, not even a sore arm. Might not get the second, which is due in a few days. Now I’ll wait a few months before I decide. Time to do more research. :)
It was an incredibly stupid decision. The first dose is 80% effective and 80% of “events” are after the 2nd dose probably because they are too damn close together.
They could have given twice as many people a first dose with almost minimal side effects without all the folderol of the rollout by eligibility cohorts.
Probably could have managed 80-90% single dose coverage before the variants started popping up. Then a 2nd dose booster 4-6 months later. We’d be done.
Here is the current CDC guidance if you miss the 3 week mark:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7011e2.htm
Oops ignore prior link - see this one:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/second-shot.html
“events” are after the 2nd dose probably because they are too damn close together.”
That’s exactly what I thought when I first read a couple of months ago about recommendations to wait 6wks before getting 2nd shot because they thought it gave better immunity.
“The entire mad rush to get this thing into people smelled like a dead whale carcass from a mile away to me”
Me too. Question is...why? Control people? Control the population? Is there really something nefarious in these injections?
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