Spike Sipper! Refill as you go!
Posted on 01/10/2022 9:33:37 AM PST by ransomnote
The scientist behind the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has voiced his concerns about the booster jabs. Dr Andrew Pollard, who also chairs the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said that it was “unsustainable” to vaccinate people with boosters twice a year.
In an interview with the Telegraph, Pollard said that injecting people with booster shots every four to six months is unsustainable. He said: “We can’t vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It’s not sustainable or affordable. [If] your goal [with boosters] is to stop all infections, that is wrong.”
Pollard said that vaccine rollouts should “target the vulnerable” instead of boosting entire populations. “The future must [focus] on the vulnerable and make boosters or treatments available to them [in order] to protect them,” he added.
Additionally, the scientist, who is from the University of Oxford, said that additional booster vaccines beyond the third should be put on hold unless there is “strong evidence” that they are required. He commented on the issue of a fourth vaccine as other countries have forced them on the masses.
“We know that people have strong antibodies for a few months after their third vaccination. But more data [is] needed to assess whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses,” he said.
The AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to blood clots and other adverse reactions, resulting in some countries temporarily halting the use of the jab.
In the same interview, Pollard added that he is “not a huge fan” of compulsory vaccination. He instead suggested that clearer information is a better way to convince people to get vaccinated. “[Compulsory vaccination] would make more sense in some Eastern European countries, where a quarter of the population is vaccinated,” he explained.
The scientist has classified unvaccinated people into three groups: Those unable to physically access clinics, those who are hesitant, and those who are anti-vax. He thinks that the “relatively small and young” second group could benefit from a “conversation with community leaders or a trusted person” such as a GP.
Pollard said that the staunch “anti-vaccine” group “may hold unshakable views and [may] be harder to impact.” He added that he is troubled by the supposed “misinformation” spread by people who belong to this group.
“Misinformation risks people’s lives. It’s highly likely that people became seriously ill and died because of vaccine misinformation.”
PING
No big deal.
It’s only until they’re dead.
COVID will become endemic by later this year, ex-Biden task-force head predicts!
Meanwhile in the real world of repeat vaccines or not!:
University of California/San Francisco’s Infectious Disease associate division chief, Dr. Monica Gandhi, joined the chorus of skeptics who say that repeat vaccinations would not produce the right type of protections, saying that it “trains your immune system wrong.”
“It doesn’t train your immune system to recognize a variant,” Ghandi told ABC 7. “It trains your immune system to recognize the old ancestral strain that the shots are made of. That concept is the ‘original antigenic sin,’ is what they call it, is what immunologists are expressing concern of.”
“If we boost, let’s boost with a better vaccine, not the one against the original strain of the virus that emerged,” she argued.
She also remained hesitant over a push for more vaccines from a pharmaceutical company rather than health officials.
“I think it’s hard to have a CEO dictate our policy and companies, who stand and make money for it,” Gandhi said.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/moderna-ceo-second-covid-booster-doctors-arent-convinced
Spike Sipper! Refill as you go!
From a purely logistical standpoint - why?
Look - it gets endemic and then your merge it with the regular flu shot and keep it VOLUNTARY on an annual basis that’s fine.
This boost every season change is absolutely stupid and insidious.
“Pollard said that vaccine rollouts should “target the vulnerable” instead of boosting entire populations.”
So, he wants to just kill all of us over 70 with multiple co-morbidities? Natch (I’m 72 with 7 co-morbidities).
Covid has been endemic for quite some time.
More importanter, what does the CEO say?
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If it was Pfizer saying this, it would be great to have 2-4 boosters, likely Pfizer’s, planet-wide every year. But, it is AstroZeneca - the competitor that stands to go further down in the market should their competitor gain.
Follow the money.
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