Posted on 01/26/2023 5:16:09 AM PST by blueplum
Currently authorized bivalent COVID-19 boosters demonstrated similar protection against symptomatic illness from the XBB/XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariants as from BA.5-related subvariants, according to a CDC study.
From December 2022 to January 2023, the bivalent boosters' vaccine effectiveness (VE) against symptomatic infection was a similar 48% versus XBB/XBB.1.5-related strains and 52% versus BA.5-related sublineages, reported Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and colleagues in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reportopens in a new tab or window (MMWR).
Meanwhile, Pfizer's updated booster demonstrated superior neutralizing antibody activity compared with the company's original product against all the latest Omicron subvariants, including XBB.1, according to Kena Swanson, PhD, of Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development in Pearl River, New York and colleagues, writing in the New England Journal of Medicineopens in a new tab or window. Their findings contradict earlier researchopens in a new tab or window from other labs that found no significant difference in neutralizing activity with the bivalent over the monovalent vaccine.
According to the latest estimates from the CDC, XBB.1.5 is responsible for 49.1% of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., while XBB is responsible for another 3.3%....
..When the CDC researchers broke down VE by age group, protection against symptomatic illness from BA.5- and XBB/XBB.1.5-related sublineages tended to be higher among younger individuals:
18-49 years: 52% and 49%, respectively 50-64 years: 43% and 40% 65 and older: 37% and 43%...
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
Wow! 40% effective, you say? Break out the champagne!
The CDC are lying bastards. /obvious
Uh, the cdc right? I suppose in a certain respect the really are the center for ‘disease control’........ Just sayin’
The CDC, NIH, Big Pharma, professional medical boards / associations, and most of the healthcare industry has ruined its credibility. Fixed it…
You have posted essentially the same story twice in just a few minutes. What a crock of crap. Make sure to keep up with your clot-shot boosters so that you can propagandize in “perfect health.”
kinda wonder if they’re working on commission for big pharma...
Yeah, you’re right. The vaccine situation has become just like the ‘Climate Change’ situation. Only one viewpoint is permitted. As a result, most organizations (professional boards, scientific journals, etc.) have ended up censoring themselves. No debate, please.
>Wow! 40% effective, you say? Break out the champagne!<
This from a short term study. I’m sure they thoroughly studied all long term side effects too. SMH
EC
that’s the second time you’ve referred to vaccines as ‘clot-shots’ - did you forget that covid itself is notorious for causing blood clots? Along with heart, lung, kidney and neurological damage?
It’s one thing to choose not to be among the 95% elderly and about 80% of adults vaccinated, nobody cares, but attacking those that do chose to do so, or who may be interested in information other than a purely negative side to vaccination is bullying - straight up. You want your choice respected then respect other’s choices and save the snide remarks for 4chan, Newbie
I absolutely respect and support YOUR right to get the VAX. Hell, take as many Boosters as you want. Drink it, I don’t care.
What really pisses me off is the bunch of arrogant, sanctimonious, self righteous, VAX-HOLES that insist that they know best and insist, and in some cases, MANDATE that everyone succumb to their self-imagined superior intellect.
You want the Un-Vaxxed to respect your right to choose, RESPECT OURS!!!
With the booster, you WILL NOT go to the hospital.
You will die at home from a sudden heart attack.
posting an article that gives neutral or positive information about vaccines is not a personal attack on the small percent of unvaccinated. Why some unvaccinated take it that way and get all anger defensive attacking the poster with INCAPS namecalling instead of posting a counterargument or opinion on the subject matter itself is a mystery to me. Especially considering FR is a christian-centric website.
As for mandates, bring a kid with rubella to my pregnant daughter’s house and you’ll see mandates in action real quick. This article isn’t about ‘madates’ but when the vaccine was new, 30K a week were dropping dead and we had zero defenses, mandates made sense. When there is no way to shelter all the millions of elderly or at risk people, there will always be a time and place for mandates of one form or another.
As to respect, the pandemic has been inconvenient to everyone. Even so, society has done a pretty good job of respecting the unvaccinated. Unfortunately it hasn’t been reciprocal. The infirm were shut in their houses or nursing homes for over a year. The unvaccinated didn’t care. Many who rejected mandates were accommodated by allowing them to work at home. Now those same folks don’t want to come to the office at all. Social distancing was in lieu of mandates, too, but now folks don’t want to social distance either. Opposition to the covid vaccine morphed into opposition to any vaccine. Considering an overwhelming majority have been vaccinated for covid over the last two years, and are interested in hearing about new developments in the fight against covid, maybe the “sanctimonious” unvaccinated invested in vaccine-shaming should stop pounding the victim drum so loudly.
WOW, I must have really hit a nerve.
I started off with respecting your right to choose. That doesn’t sound like an attack.
Next, I made a general comment, maybe a bit of venting about the “cult of the vax” and you took it as a personal attack. I don’t see where I called you out specifically. A bit of projecting with your response?
Okay, if you want to be picky, I did start my third statement off with the word “YOU”. My Bad.
Again, back to my original third statement about respecting YOUR right to choose. Respect goes both ways and asking for that from you along with the rest of those who chose to take the vax is somehow beating the victim drum. I seem to recall a recent article in the Atlantic where the vaxxed are asking for amnesty for their mistakes in handling the scamdemic.
Lastly, it was the Vaxxed who wanted the unvaxxed interned in camps, denied the right to work, to buy or to sell. Someone famous (Joey Crappy Pants) said he wanted to make the lives of the unvaxxed hard.
Now THAT I take as a personal attack.
And just for your edification, I’m not anti-vax. I’m anti-Covid vax.
Have a Good Day
You joined in 2007 probably to flog for John McNasty and now you are back to plug the deadly clot-shot. Keep up with your “vaccinations” and make us all happy.
Been telling people this on Facebook since this all started and was called nuts. Fauci needs to be prosecuted for starting the whole mess
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