When Moderna received its EUA in December 2020, the reported VE was 94%, reflecting only eleven people getting infected after receiving the shots vs 185 in the placebo group out of about 15,000 test subject in each group.
The FDA stated that "To ensure that a widely deployed COVID-19 vaccine is effective, the primary efficacy endpoint point estimate for a placebo-controlled efficacy trial should be at least 50%, and the statistical success criterion should be that the lower bound of the appropriately alpha-adjusted confidence interval around the primary efficacy endpoint point estimate is >30%."
VE for the Moderna shot in this study against Omicron falls below this threshold, and is zero if it's 180 days or more after the second dose. VE against Omicron is only above 50% if the person was boosted after October 20, 2021 and then VE was 63%.
The basis of EUA was for PREVENTION...not reduced symptoms, not keeping you out of the hospital or ground....it was only PREVENTION.
The Moderna shot seems to be effective ONLY if the patient is routinely boosted, and we don't have any clinical trials on the long-term health impacts of frequent boosting. Even with boosting, the VE may still fall below the 50% FDA-determined threshold.
The EUA should be reconsidered if not pulled.
None of the above. We remain-—”NON GMO”.
It is 2024, time to update your vaccination to 14.1
So they are saying it is ineffective against Omicron, but a booster of the exact same stuff will give you some modest protection for about 60 days. Do they really expect people to line up every other month? Ridiculous. Don’t even fight Omicron, let it provide better and longer lasting natural immunity.
Boosted doesn’t do much. I know of a boosted 96 year old that got it.
With almost 900,000 people dead, and a vaccine that almost entirely prevents death or intubation, they are not going to do that.
Its starting to be plain that the vax’s are problematic.
But the politicians who have promoted them, and have used legal force to promote them, cannot politically admit they were wrong. And for sure, the people who bought in to the hoax cannot admit they were wrong. The hospitals who have followed CDC guidelines and killed half their patients can’t admit they were wrong.
So the climb-down is going to be long and slow. They weren’t wrong, they were wrong for the right reasons, they were right but there were variants, they were right but not enough people took the shots, they were right but Trump and the right-wingers...
FYI