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Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant (declining over time; endless boosting needed)
New England Journal of Medicine ^ | March 2, 2022 | Nick Andrews, Ph.D., Julia Stowe, Ph.D., Freja Kirsebom, Ph.D., Samuel Toffa, Ph.D., Tim Rickeard, M

Posted on 03/13/2022 6:48:48 AM PDT by DoodleBob

...Between November 27, 2021, and January 12, 2022, a total of 886,774 eligible persons infected with the omicron variant, 204,154 eligible persons infected with the delta variant, and 1,572,621 eligible test-negative controls were identified...vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease was higher for the delta variant than for the omicron variant.

No effect against the omicron variant was noted from 20 weeks after two ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 doses, whereas vaccine effectiveness after two BNT162b2 doses was 65.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 63.9 to 67.0) at 2 to 4 weeks, dropping to 8.8% (95% CI, 7.0 to 10.5) at 25 or more weeks.

Among ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 primary course recipients, vaccine effectiveness increased to 62.4% (95% CI, 61.8 to 63.0) at 2 to 4 weeks after a BNT162b2 booster before decreasing to 39.6% (95% CI, 38.0 to 41.1) at 10 or more weeks.

Among BNT162b2 primary course recipients, vaccine effectiveness increased to 67.2% (95% CI, 66.5 to 67.8) at 2 to 4 weeks after a BNT162b2 booster before declining to 45.7% (95% CI, 44.7 to 46.7) at 10 or more weeks.

Vaccine effectiveness after a ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 primary course increased to 70.1% (95% CI, 69.5 to 70.7) at 2 to 4 weeks after an mRNA-1273 booster and decreased to 60.9% (95% CI, 59.7 to 62.1) at 5 to 9 weeks.

After a BNT162b2 primary course, the mRNA-1273 booster increased vaccine effectiveness to 73.9% (95% CI, 73.1 to 74.6) at 2 to 4 weeks; vaccine effectiveness fell to 64.4% (95% CI, 62.6 to 66.1) at 5 to 9 weeks.

CONCLUSIONS

Primary immunization with two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 vaccine provided limited protection against symptomatic disease caused by the omicron variant. A BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 booster after either the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 primary course substantially increased protection, but that protection waned over time.

(Excerpt) Read more at nejm.org ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; vaccineeffectiveness
In case anyone cares, since Russia seems to have solved the MSM's obsession with the pandemic.
1 posted on 03/13/2022 6:48:48 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Shove it.
Boosters?
Want CW-II?


2 posted on 03/13/2022 6:49:36 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DoodleBob

The 27th jab should fix everything

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πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰πŸ’‰

♾️


3 posted on 03/13/2022 6:55:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: DoodleBob

Take your boosters and shove them sideways! Enough of the bullshit!


4 posted on 03/13/2022 6:55:53 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: DoodleBob

Primary immunization with two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 vaccine provided limited protection against symptomatic disease caused by the omicron variant.

The more fundamental question is why is any vaccine needed against the omicron variant, which has morphed to the innocuous level of a head-cold.


5 posted on 03/13/2022 6:59:09 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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In case anyone cares, since Russia seems to have solved the MSM’s obsession with the pandemic.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In case you hadn’t caught this, the BB has it about exactly right....
https://babylonbee.com/news/putin-receives-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-ending-covid-pandemic


6 posted on 03/13/2022 7:18:47 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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I was just sick with something for 3 days, had chills, felt a bit run down, head felt like,it had a cold, but I breezed throug n it fine. If that was omicron, then there is no freaking need for vaccines that do nothing but line the pockets of pharma.

How many people are dying specificallly from omicron? I’m talking people without comorbities? Funny how the news stopped their minute by minute breathless reporting of covid deaths.


7 posted on 03/13/2022 8:01:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434; Travis McGee

(Funny how the news stopped their minute by minute breathless reporting of covid deaths.)

Travis had a cartoon with a train going from COVID to war.


8 posted on 03/13/2022 8:09:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SaveFerris; Travis McGee
This is a good one, as well....


9 posted on 03/13/2022 8:10:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a β€œconspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. πŸ™πŸ» Ps 33:12)
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To: Jane Long

Perfect!


10 posted on 03/13/2022 8:11:54 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: SaveFerris

They are ignoring covid now because midterms are coming up. If they somehow keep their majority, you can bet mandates will happen again until right around the next election rolls around


11 posted on 03/13/2022 8:19:31 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: SaveFerris

Actually, there is evidence suggesting that Efficacy declines with each boost. By the time #27 is administered, it’ll be a daily boost required.


12 posted on 03/13/2022 8:33:41 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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“I was just sick with something for 3 days, had chills, felt a bit run down, head felt like,it had a cold, but I breezed through it fine. If that was omicron, then there is no freaking need for vaccines that do nothing but line the pockets of pharma.”

This past January, my wife and I, (both in our 80’s) apparently got the OmniCrud from one of our 50 something sons.

I was semi sick first for 2-3 days, then my wife had 2-3 days of the same crud. 1 week later we had zero symptoms. We didn’t even have a fever.

Next, my wife had a hip replacement a little over a week plus ago. Post crud.

They did a Covid test on her a few days/Saturday before her hip replacement on the following Tuesday. She was negative (no omnicrud)!

I was able to be with her pre op and post op and of course at home. The only tests they did was ask if I had had a fever in the past week. Then, they did a head scan with a thermometer, which was normal as was my wife’s.

During my wife’s post op recovery time, I was in the recovery area and did wear a mask before, during her recovery and to the exit when she was discharged. Nothing said about masks post op at home.

After a few days, she has had a few visitors, relatives and good friends. We asked one question, “Do you or did you recently have a fever?”

No one had a fever, and they spent a few minutes with my wife. One of our DIL’s spent a coupe of hours with her so I could do some errands and grocery shopping. She didn’t wear a mask. She had no fever or symptoms and didn’t wear a mask.


13 posted on 03/13/2022 9:24:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Encourage and fund our liberals & Antifa to move to Canada. Conservative Canadians can move here!)
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To: DoodleBob; All
"Global deaths" according to Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center are 6,042,374.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

"U.S. deaths" according to the same "authority" are 967,568.

If true --- and they are demonstrably not -- then the United States has about 16 percent of all deaths worldwide. And the US population is about 4.25 % of the world's population.

Therefore, if the data is true -- and it cannot be -- then the mortality rate in the "first-world" United States under the leadership of Fauci, Collins and Walensky is about four times WORSE than the entire world.

As to JHU's "global deaths," those deaths as a function of the world's population, currently estimated to be about 7,933,171,940, are about 0.076 percent as a mortality rate.

Taking the "official" numbers from "official" sources proves the entire Covid-19 "pandemic" was survived by 99.924 percent of the world.

And the same "pandemic" with the FDA's legal-liability shielded mRNA EUAs is worse than most of the world. Anomalies?

There are more anomalies the flimflam artists of the WHO, GAVI, Communist China, CDC, NIH and FDA have forgotten to neaten up. This has been a scam, with massive profits for the few and increased political power for the "players".

AND it is proved using their own "data".

As a bonus -- today's JHU data for China shows a nation of 1.4 billion and Covid deaths as 8,365.

Believe the data? Believe the officials? Believe the government? Believe the two+ years of hysterical media?

14 posted on 03/13/2022 9:30:55 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: Grampa Dave

I didn’t have a fever, but did have bad chills- I could not get warm. Only lasted 2 days


15 posted on 03/13/2022 9:42:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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