Posted on 09/30/2022 10:13:36 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...But the new vaccines protect against two different strains of Covid-19: the original strand and the latest Omicron variant, BA.5. BA.5 just emerged in August, and it’s spreading extremely fast–it now accounts for 88% of the cases in the U.S. The FDA authorized these “bivalent” boosters on August 31.
My main point today is to explain how this happened so quickly, and why it didn’t involve many months of clinical trials the way that the original vaccines did. Some people have expressed suspicion about the speed with which these boosters appeared, but those suspicions are entirely unfounded.
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(W)e change the flu vaccine strain to match whatever seems to be circulating, but everything else about the vaccine design remains the same.
This is exactly what scientists have done with the new Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna: they simply added a new strain, in this case to match the latest Omicron variant.
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The vaccine makers have produced safety data showing that the booster is just as safe as the original vaccine (see that NEJM article I mentioned above). But the FDA didn’t require them to prove that the booster really works better against BA.5, because that would require months of trials, and by that time the virus could mutate again. So while it’s possible that the boosters won’t help against BA.5, it’s very, very likely that they will.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Really? Do tell! I'm all ears!
a study showing this data for the Moderna booster just appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. That study also showed that people generated robust antibodies against the BA.1, BA.4, and BA.5 Omicron variants after getting the new booster.
Uh, that has nothing to do with safety.
Salzburg should stop. He’s definitely wanting to tell us things that are without journalistic standards of credibility. He must be a paid advocate.
They’re probably even safer than all the others I didn’t get.
:)
“but those suspicions are entirely unfounded.”
It’s a known fact that anything that comes after the word “but” is a lie.
If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
_ We’re safe.
Oh good.
_ We’re in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of
Excuse me, *before* “but”
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/its-what-comes-after-the-but-that-counts/
I am really stressed about Monday.
I have a towel.
it’s more than strange that China has not used any mRNA vaccines, considering its involvement with trials etc.
strange that - despite FakenNewsMSM farcical attempts to hype “covid outbreaks” in China - Statista lists China as #152 of 154 countries in deaths per million.
(btw even if China’s reporting on covid is not to be trusted, I doubt it would make much difference to its place near the bottom for covid deaths per million).
finally, they have approval for one of their own mRNA jabs, but not for the Chinese!
30 Sept: Reuters: A Chinese mRNA COVID vaccine is approved for the first time - in Indonesia
By Stanley Widianto and Roxanne Liu
(Reporting by Stanley Widianto in Jakarta and Roxanne Liu in Beijing; Editing by Miyoung Kim, Edwina Gibbs and Jonathan Oatis)
Indonesia said it has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so.
Indonesia’s food and drugs agency (BPOM) greenlighted the use of Walvax Biotechnology Co Ltd’s mRNA vaccine, which has been in development for more than two years and targets the original strain of the coronavirus.
The approval comes as somewhat of a surprise as Walvax, which has been conducting large late-stage trials of the vaccine in several countries including Indonesia, Mexico and China, has yet to publish efficacy readings that would show how well it can reduce the risk of COVID cases and deaths.
Penny Lukito, head of the agency, told reporters the vaccine, now known as AWcorna, was 83.58% effective against wild-type coronavirus strains considered common and normal, though she added that its efficacy drops to 71.17% against moderate cases of the highly contagious Omicron variant.
She did not provide details of the data and did not respond to Reuters queries seeking further comment.
Walvax declined to comment. Share reaction for the Chinese company was muted, with the stock rising just 0.5%...
China has several mRNA candidates in development but the Walvax vaccine is the only candidate in large late-stage clinical trials.
Indonesia also uses mRNA COVID vaccines made by Pfizer Ltd and BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) and by Moderna, but the AWcorna shot has a longer shelf life, remaining stable at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius (36 degrees to 46 degrees Fahrenheit) for at least six months, according to its researchers...
For its part, China has not approved any Western-made COVID shots and its approved vaccine portfolio does not yet include vaccines that specifically target the Omicron variant.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/indonesia-drug-agency-approves-chinas-walvax-mrna-vaccine-emergency-use-2022-09-29/
almost all the countries near the bottom of Statista’s deaths per million chart are countries which did not have mRNA jabs.
surely there’s a story here for a decent investigative journalist.
Without a doubt but investigative journalists are in short supply.
And so by the time they get the “new” vaxxes distributed, the variant will have mostly burned itself out and natural immunity will be causing the herd immunity.
TPTB will never let Covid die its well deserved deth.
A 60-ish friend just got his booster two days ago. Said by that night he thought he was going to die, worst he’d ever felt in his life. Says he’s pretty much come out of it after 24 hours. We’ll see how he progresses.
Our stupid media ignores how harmful the vaxxxes have been. But word of mouth travels. This is why no one is getting the boosters. The booster rate is pathetic, 2% or so.
Too many people are spooked by the vaxxxxx harms they have heard about. A relative, neighbor or friends who have suffered after getting vaxxxxxed.
Even the pro vaxxers here on FR have quieted. Reality.
Monday?
Possibly yes, possibly no? Very possibly? Without trials, this is all assertion without real science. Marketing at best. as to real and sourced information without "possible" wiggle words, on learns....
As of 1 October 2022, 33 months into the so-called and supposedly continuing pandemic, here is the mortality rate using official sources.
( 6,545,971 global deaths / 7,924,032,450 global population ) x 100 = 0.0826 percent. Still less that one tenth of one percent of the global population.
Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock
An additional anomaly is that the US with its supposedly first-world medical system is among the statistical worst in numbers of deaths per population.
( 1,059,579 US deaths / 6,545,971 global deaths ) x 100 = 16.2 percent of the pandemic in the US alone with its approximately 4 percent of population.
After 33 months of this so-called pandemic, the statistical anomaly that the US has "experienced" FOUR TIMES the death rate of the world can only be explained by something other than "possibly" tainted assertions.
Continuing to market experimental mRNA products without open test results is NOT based in science. Nor in any official data.
But it is marketing for companies who have successfully avoided being legally liable for their products for almost three years. This "pandemic: has been and continues to be a scam.
‘Just get on the train. We are taking you somewhere you will be safe.’
Sounds sort of familiar, doesn’t it.
(‘Just get on the train. We are taking you somewhere you will be safe.’)
safe AND effective
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