Posted on 02/02/2023 9:52:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A growing number of doctors say that they will not get COVID-19 vaccine boosters, citing a lack of clinical trial evidence.
“I have taken my last COVID vaccine without RCT level evidence it will reduce my risk of severe disease,” Dr. Todd Lee, an infectious disease expert at McGill University, wrote on Twitter.
Lee was pointing to the lack of randomized clinical trial (RCT) results for the updated boosters, which were cleared in the United States and Canada in the fall of 2022 primarily based on data from experiments with mice.
Lee, who has received three vaccine doses, noted that he was infected with the Omicron virus variant—the vaccines provide little protection against infection—and described himself as a healthy male in his 40s.
Dr. Vinay Prasad, a professor of epidemiology and biostatics at the University of California, San Francisco, also said he wouldn’t take any additional shots until clinical trial data become available.
“I took at least 1 dose against my will. It was unethical and scientifically bankrupt,” he said.
Allison Krug, an epidemiologist who co-authored a study that found teenage boys were more likely to suffer heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination than COVID-19 infection, recounted explaining to her doctor why she was refusing a booster and said her doctor agreed with her position.
She called on people to “join the movement to demand appropriate evidence,” pointing to a blog post from Prasad.
“Pay close attention to note this isn’t anti-vaccine sentiment. This is ‘provide [hard] evidence of benefit to justify ongoing use’ which is very different. It is only fair for a 30 billion dollar a year product given to hundreds of millions,” Lee said.
Dr. Mark Silverberg, who founded the Toronto Immune and Digestive Health Institute; Kevin Bass, a medical student; and Dr. Tracy Høeg, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, joined Lee and Prasad in stating their opposition to more boosters, at least for now.
Høeg said she did not need clinical trials to know she’s not getting any boosters after receiving a two-dose primary series, adding that she took the second dose “against my will.”
“I also had an adverse reaction to dose 1 moderna and, if I could do it again, I would not have had any covid vaccines,” she said on Twitter. “I was glad my parents in their 70s could get covid vaccinated but have yet to see non-confounded data to advise them about the bivalent booster. I would have liked to see an RCT for the bivalent for people their age and for adults with health conditions that put them at risk.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to updated boosters, or bivalent shots, from Pfizer and Moderna in August 2022 despite there being no human data.
Observational data suggests the boosters provide little protection against infection and solid shielding against severe illness, at least initially.
Five months after the authorization was granted, no clinical trial data has been made available for the bivalents, which target the Wuhan strain as well as the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron. Moderna presented efficacy estimates for a different bivalent, which has never been used in the United States, during a recent meeting. The company estimated the booster increased protection against infection by just 10 percent.
The FDA is preparing to order all Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines be replaced with the bivalents. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which issues recommendations on vaccines, continues advising virtually all Americans to get a primary series and multiple boosters.
A professor, meanwhile, became the latest to call for a halt to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are both based on messenger RNA technology.
“At this point in time, all COVID mRNA vaccination program[s] should stop immediately,” Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a video statement. “They should stop because they completely failed to fulfill any of their advertised promise[s] regarding efficacy. And more importantly, they should stop because of the mounting and indisputable evidence that they cause unprecedented level of harm, including the death of young people and children.”
Levi was referring to post-vaccination heart inflammation, or myocarditis. The condition is one of the few that authorities have acknowledged is caused by the messenger RNA vaccines.
How dare they?
bttt
Where are the rolling covid death count numbers? How many are still dying from Covid 19 or it’s variants? Must be rare, otherwise we would be hearing about it. People are waking up to the ruse. I’ve noticed that the Freepvacciners have been strangely absent on this forum lately.
Day late / dollar short.
I voluntarily took the first and second Moderna shots, then the first booster, and I’m sure you’ll refer to me as a Freepvacciner as I early advocated the shots but only on a voluntary basis, and never for the young. I still believe it provided a benefit in the early pandemic for those at risk, such as myself, but also believe as it mutated the effectiveness lessened while medications improved and further shots are not warranted. I am concerned with more recent statistics showing that not only are the boosters ineffective but likely detrimental.
I continue to believe Trump did the right thing in the beginning to quicken the development and distribution of the shots (agree, not a vaccine). As one at risk due to age and several co-morbidities I continue to believe the original shots were more effective than detrimental to the at risk population such as myself. I voluntarily participated in the Moderna study so I received the shots several months earlier than the initial rollout, and due to a change in job location travelled extensively during the most critical early period and had much higher exposure potential than the general population. I never contracted the original disease, and will credit that to the initial shots. I do believe they saved me from the likelihood of being sick with a substantial risk of dieing or long term effects. As part of the study I was closely monitored for the disease, with regular testing and reporting of any symptoms which would trigger a visit from the study for additional tests. We didn’t know what we were facing early on which is why I volunteered to be a Guinea pig, it was the least I could do. Again, I have always been against anyone being forced to take the shots, and leaned against shots for younger people, always against it for children as there was essentially no risk to them.
While I took the initial booster as part of the study, again months ahead of the general population, I have not taken any further booster shots and am against them. I moved mid last year and thus had to drop from the study, and by that point it seemed the effectiveness of further boosters was in doubt. Even when a booster that was supposedly improved to address variants was available I declined, and ultimately in late October I had my turn at the disease variant. I did get quite sick and as I monitor my oxygen levels could see they were going down. Fortunately I have an oxygen generator in conjunction with my CPAP and so I was able to increase my oxygen while I got prescription medicine early enough to be effective. It was a rough couple of weeks but I stayed out of the hospital. Now having survived the variant I see absolutely no need for any further boosters.
Yeah, omicron hit before a more specific vaccine was available. I tested positive, but some acquaintances had it much worse. One was an unvaccinated, unmasked young woman in her twenties—a retail employee. She passed out in her bathroom and was taken to a hospital.
That was the young woman’s second time, BTW. She caught another variant a few months earlier with the same result (passed out, low oxygen, hospital, etc.).
It’s nice to see them change their tunes at this late date, but as far as I’m concerned they will have no credibility unless they surrender their medical licenses.
I’ve read many articles about the rise in total death rate in Europe, Australia and a few other countries. But I’ve not seen any figures for the US.
Why is that? Does anyone have the US total death numbers for the last three years?
Doctors have been knocked off their godly pedestals by their actions during the COVID pandemic and shown themselves to be mere flawed mortals.
Waiting for the democrat/media/big pharma/Faux-xi cheerleaders on here to say the death serum is perfectly safe with 98% efficacy.
Nobody keeps count because Orange man bad isn’t in the white house at the moment.
So you basically believe what the TV told you.
are they still offering the hospital and funeral bonus?
Man, oh man, that wake up by the ones we thought were the medical experts has be excruciating slow. Let’s see now we are going on three years and the vail is finally lifting. My mind turns to Canada and all the young dead doctors who perished. Just goes to show that when it comes to your own well being there is no better guardian of your health than yourself.
They've done far worse than that. They have shown themselves to be lazy, self-serving whores, who will do and say whatever they're told as long as they get paid, Hippocratic Oath be damned.
Agree.
I’m sorry, but the U.S. doctors NEVER will redeem themselves in my eyes. They knew they were lying to us through WuFlu, and it’s too late for a pretend come-to-Jesus moment.
Yet Prasad was a regular jab pusher for the rest of us:
https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/covid19-and-more
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