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Some Infectious Disease Specialists See COVID Approaching 'Endemic' Stage After Omicron
Newsweek ^ | 1/3/22 | Katie Wermus

Posted on 01/04/2022 9:37:35 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

In a new study, Ellebedy's team found Pfizer vaccinations rev up "T helper cells" that act as the drill sergeant in those training camps, driving production of more diverse and stronger antibodies that may work even if the virus changes again.

Ellebedy said baseline population immunity has improved so much that even as breakthrough infections inevitably continue, there will be a drop in severe illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths—regardless of the next variant.

"We are not the same population that we were in December of 2019," he said. "It's different ground now."

Think of a wildfire tearing through a forest after a drought, he said. That was 2020. Now, even with Omicron, "it's not completely dry land," but wet enough "that made the fire harder to spread."

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; endemic; pandemic; pfizer; vaccines

1 posted on 01/04/2022 9:37:35 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Covid Vaccines/boosters are now for ever, from now to eternity?!

Thanks to Sans-Culotte for this needed dose of Vaccine/Booster Reality versus the daily mediot B$ insanity of Vaccine$/Booster$!

Thanks to Sans-Culotte for this injection of reality!

2 posted on 01/04/2022 9:46:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’ve never studied infectious diseases in my life but I could have told you the Corona Virus was endemic to everyday life. it’s not rocket science.


3 posted on 01/04/2022 9:52:47 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

And its effects have been made far worse via incompetent gov’t idiots, lying hyperbolic media and criminal drug companies. None of this had to happen.


4 posted on 01/04/2022 9:55:27 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Grampa Dave
I posted that chart to my Facebook page and got banned for 3 days since it goes against "community standards"

About 6 hours later, I received a retraction from them, apologizing, putting it back, and allowing me to continue posting....

hhhmmmmmm
5 posted on 01/04/2022 10:00:25 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

LOL...thought it said enema stage at first.


6 posted on 01/04/2022 10:09:08 AM PST by moovova
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To: Karma_Sherab

I posted that chart to my Facebook page and got banned for 3 days since it goes against “community standards”

“About 6 hours later, I received a retraction from them, apologizing, putting it back, and allowing me to continue posting....”

hhhmmmmmm


Well, that probably means the Covid data that others, you and I posted is/was legit.


7 posted on 01/04/2022 10:14:49 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: Seruzawa

How about we start regerring to Covid as a pandemic, and start calling it what it has become:
A DEMPANIC!!


8 posted on 01/04/2022 10:36:14 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: milagro

Mske that “stop referring”.
Stupid fingers!


9 posted on 01/04/2022 10:38:06 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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10 posted on 01/04/2022 10:40:58 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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11 posted on 01/04/2022 10:41:41 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Endemic, as in the common cold.


12 posted on 01/04/2022 11:10:32 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This thing has been endemic since 2019.


13 posted on 01/04/2022 11:37:11 AM PST by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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To: Chode

Thanks to Null and Void for the above reality.

Covid Vaccines/boosters are now for ever, from now to eternity?!

Thanks to Chode for the above.

Thanks to Sans-Culotte for this needed dose of Vaccine/Booster Reality versus the daily mediot B$ insanity of Vaccine$/Booster$!

14 posted on 01/04/2022 11:59:34 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’m beginning to wonder if the scare didn’t happen to get some particular Republicans to take the needle.

There’s a report that more President Trump supporters are dying more from “vaccine” than the disease.


15 posted on 01/04/2022 12:27:04 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: Grampa Dave

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16 posted on 01/04/2022 4:15:47 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Grampa Dave

wasn’t a conspiracy theory for those who actually read the literature, news articles, etc. even before any vaccines were administered as possible, time will tell, etc. Stating otherwise is just flat out false.

Just like the claims that there was no discussion of COVID19 infections causing inflammation, blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, myocarditis in younger people, etc. until after the vaccines came out. All complete lies. That was widely discussed as some of the dangers and deadliest symptoms of a COVID19 infection all throughout the - suddenly ‘forgotten’ later to push a false narrative that only the vaccines were causing that.

Getting tired of the crap. The MSM lies and promotes false narratives and this pandemic has inspired some on the right not to get the truth out, but to compete with the MSM in who can spread false narratives the best. Not how it should be.


17 posted on 01/04/2022 5:55:30 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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