[blueplum]

so what the Sisonke-2 has found, for review, is a single dose J&J followed in 6-9 months by a second dose, provided 63% protection against hospitalization risk after two weeks, strengthening to 85% defensive against hospitalization from Omi within 30 to 60 days.

This is in line with an previous Open Access study from Jun 2021, that J&J demonstrated gain of protective strength over time. This new study adds that the retained protection is possibly longer than that of mRna Pfitzer, may reset the booster window to 6 months, and, the protection remains effective against Omi. This study may also help understand the question of whether T-cells respond to all variants equally, as JJ seems to do. study here

[kiryandil]

I'm confused.

Was this the sixth booster, or the seventh booster?   

[MAGAthon]

how about 3 shots per year?

30 Dec: Guardian Australia: Up to three Covid jabs a year could be needed for protection, data suggests
UK analysis indicates Pfizer and Moderna boosters less effective against Omicron than Delta variant and appear to drop away further after nine weeks
by Peter Hannam
The analysis included 147,597 Delta and 68,489 Omicron cases in the UK. The agency stressed the “results should be interpreted with caution due to the low counts and the possible biases related to the populations with highest exposure to Omicron (including travellers and their close contacts) which cannot fully be accounted for”...

Jaya Dantas, a professor of international health at Curtin University, said it was still early days for the understanding of the efficacy of the vaccinations but “it appears that there might be a need for regular boosters”.
“You might need boosters, say maybe two a year or three a year,” Dantas said, with elderly people more likely to be in line for a triple annual dose...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/30/up-to-three-covid-jabs-a-year-could-be-needed-for-protection-data-suggests

[zeestephen]

Impressive numbers.

However, they are not meaningful unless compared to an un-vaccinated control group.

For instance, the Covid fatality rate in South Africa has dropped 80% since Omicron became the dominant variant.

But, just 30% of South Africans are vaccinated.

[Rocco DiPippo]

I've spent a lot of time studying the issue of declining effectiveness of the covid "vaccines." After two years of 12 hour per day, six days per week intense research it is now clear to me that covid could be eliminated from the earth and from everyone's imagination only if everyone was "vaccinated" twice per day, every day, for at least seven consecutive years.

That would only be effective if everyone on earth also triple masked, 24/7/365, stayed at least 400 feet apart at all times (NO exceptions) and pulled an extra large, rooster-headed Magnum condom over their heads.

Additionally, I discovered that pulling two condoms over one's head works 56.9% better than a single one. Also it appears that dancing the "Watusi" like a lunatic while listening to hardcore punk rock further reduces the risk of catching all future versions of covid, real or imagined, by 600 percent.

Anything less than this comprehensive approach will result in everyone on earth dying within 2 months.

[Libloather]

Sounds awfully complicated for the sniffles.

[MAGAthon]

scroll down to these recent tweets from Farage/GB News:

15hr ago: Tweet: GB News: Nigel Farage
‘We’ve seen this propaganda campaign saying that 99 per cent of all the deaths recently were people who were unvaccinated. That’s not true.’

Jamie Jenkins, former Head of Health Statistics at ONS, tells @Nigel_Farage that ‘48 per cent of patients in ICU are unvaccinated.’
VIDEO 3m45s
https://twitter.com/nigel_farage

previous tweet is probably worth watching as well:

15 hr ago: VIDEO 4m09s
‘The booster doesn’t [stop you from catching and passing on Covid] but it does give you protection and it begins to ameliorate the amount that you can pass on’
Dr Peter Carter, Former Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing urges
@Nigel_Farage to get the booster jab.

[Fresh Wind]

If this is true (and I’m not saying it is or isn’t), would this explain why the CDC is now recommending the Pfizer and Moderna jabs over the J&J?

Is it just another “follow the money” situation, or is it something more?

[dangerdoc]

I follow a population of about 70,000 people. Vaccine effectiveness has gone down with each new variant. But when I look at rate of breakthrough by month of vaccination, I am not seeing waning protection. A breakthrough infection is just as likely to occur in someone vaccinated in January 21 as September 21.

My data generally supports most of what I see published except for the significant drop-off of protection over time.

This is only for Delta and previous variants. I haven’t crunched Omicron numbers yet.

[trebb]

How about explaining that 63% and 85% actually equate to less than 1% actual efficacy when one admits that the vast majority who get the bug do not need drastic measures to get over it w/o hospitalization?

[struggle]

I’m really interested in Omicron as a prefabricated Killswitch for Covid.

China had to have made this as an ‘antidote’ for covid and released it in Botswana for a reason

[BeauBo]

“ J&J demonstrated gain of protective strength over time”

That is one of the reasons that I picked J&J for my booster (Pfizer originally).

The other reason, is that some Israeli and UK studies showed a bit more effectiveness when vaccine types were mixed.