Posted on 01/19/2022 10:44:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Professor Cyrille Cohen is head of Immunology at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for vaccines for the Israeli Government. In a wide-ranging and forthright interview, the Professor tells Freddie Sayers:
Especially with Omicron, where we don’t see virtually any difference, there is a very narrow gap between people vaccinated and non-vaccinated, both can get infected with a virus, more or less at the same pace.
- CYRILLE COHEN, UNHERDTV
You have also to understand that the Green Pass is not necessarily — and that’s not a secret — it’s not necessarily to prevent transmission. It’s also to encourage people to get vaccinated. And I don’t want to touch upon the political aspects of the green pass. But this is a reality. - CYRILLE COHEN, UNHERDTV
Herd immunity is a consequence for me. It’s not an objective, it’s not a goal. There is a thin nuance here, if I may say, that people have to grasp. I’m not saying to people go and get infected, I don’t think that this is a model that we need to adopt. - CYRILLE COHEN, UNHERDTV
There is one mistake, I think that we made, and that I’m extremely sorry for that. We have made a few mistakes, but it was education. For me education was the thing we shouldn’t have touched. Never, never. - CYRILLE COHEN, UNHERDTV
I think it’s going to be like flu, I think there is going to be bad waves and better waves, with a better immunity at the level of the population, with better vaccines with better treatment. In that sense, and I’m extremely cautious, there is a possibility that Omicron will accelerate that transition. - CYRILLE COHEN, UNHERDTV
I think that vaccination is a personal choice. And I always said, I believe it is so. But that choice has some consequences. And here, there is a problem in society. If you are over 50, 60, and you’re saying I don’t want to get vaccinated, will you be, and I’m gonna ask a provocative question, will you be willing to renounce on the possibility of getting taken care of in hospitals? -CYRILLE COHEN, UNHERDTV
Only the wealthy will get treatment.
Eventually.
That’s my guess.
Gubmint payer notwithstanding.
20 Jan: news.com.au: Swiss sprinter Sarah Atcho diagnosed with pericarditis after Pfizer booster shot
An Olympic sprinter says she is “upset” at being diagnosed with a rare heart condition after getting her Pfizer booster shot.
by Frank Chung
An Olympic sprinter says she is “upset” at being diagnosed with a rare heart condition after getting her Pfizer booster shot.
Swiss athlete Sarah Atcho, who competed in the four-by-100 metres relay at the 2016 Brazil Olympics, revealed in an Instagram post to her 22,000 followers this week that she had been diagnosed with pericarditis, or inflammation of the lining around the heart...
The 26-year-old said she received her booster on December 22 “because I didn’t want to struggle with this when the season started”.
“I was told that it was safer to get Pfizer to avoid cardiac side effects,” she wrote.
“On December 27 I felt a tightness in the chest and started feeling dizzy while walking up the stairs. This happened a few more times until I decided to check with a cardiologist who diagnosed me with pericarditis (inflammation of the thin membrane surrounding the heart). I am now not allowed to get my heart rate up for a few weeks to allow my heart to rest and heal from the inflammation.”...
Last month, former Aussie basketballer Ben Madgen also revealed he had been hospitalised with pericarditis after his second Pfizer shot...
It comes after Australia’s medicines regulator last week confirmed the first cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after boosters.
As of January 9, there have been six reports of likely myocarditis – four after Pfizer and two after Moderna – and 12 reports of likely pericarditis – 10 after Pfizer and two after Moderna – after a third or booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) weekly safety update.
“The TGA is monitoring the safety of booster vaccine doses in adults,” the regulator said...
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Wednesday warned boosters would soon become mandatory more widely, saying they were not an “optional extra”.
“This is not an option, not an add-on, not a ‘good thing to have’,” he told reporters.
“I think we’re close to a change in policy that will simply reflect the fact that in order to be fully protected you need three doses, not two plus an optional extra.”
Mr Andrews said on Thursday he would be pushing national cabinet to change the definition of fully vaccinated.
“This is a three-dose project,” he said. “To be properly protected, you need three doses. That is what the experts tell us and what I expect national cabinet to reflect today.”
Earlier this week, Israeli researchers said preliminary data from more than 270 medical workers showed even a fourth dose was “not good enough” to prevent Omicron...
Meanwhile, a South African study published in The Lancet on Tuesday concluded that booster shots of mRNA vaccines failed to block Omicron...
Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla last week said two doses of its current Covid-19 vaccine offer “very limited protection, if any” against Omicron, while three doses “offer reasonable protection against hospitalisation and deaths”...
https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/athletics/swiss-sprinter-sarah-atcho-diagnosed-with-pericarditis-after-pfizer-booster-shot/news-story/88783cc2781f5826bf701529b348e593
It’s still a cold.
That’s what corona viruses cause.
Most of the deaths were deliberate by the government and medical community.
“Rare”?
Not any more.
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