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Growing Number Of Doctors Say They Won’t Get COVID-19 Booster Shots
Epoch Times ^ | 02/02/2023 | Zachary Steiber

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.

Professor Calls for Halt to Messenger RNA Vaccines

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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: boosters; covid; doctors; vaccination
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To: Sicon

The part that I have trouble forgiving doctors for is their refusal to allow us to buy here in the US and try Ivermectin. There is no negative risk in trying it, and an overwhelming positive result in stopping the virus. The doctors had no other motive other than their selfish personal financial risk to doing what they were told to do by the criminals in charge.

If they had advocated in mass for a trial in it’s use, I think we could have stopped the scamdemic early.


21 posted on 02/03/2023 5:38:42 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hoeg, too, a longtime limited hangout on the jabs (e.g., focused on negative effects on children, calling for individual and nuanced application of the jabs):

https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg

So the limited hangout crew are moving toward a greater limited hangout. All part of the larger staged dance IMO.


22 posted on 02/03/2023 5:45:54 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

HA! They’re coming to their senses!
I had three shots, I won’t get another!


23 posted on 02/03/2023 6:14:01 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: wastedyears

So you basically believe what the TV told you.
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At the time, what else did we have to go by? The whole situation was unprecedented. While I wasn’t part of a study, I did have two shots and one booster. I was a little tired and achy for a couple days, but bounced back.
What could Trump have known? He only knew what his “experts” told him. He had no choice but to trust them.
Had we known then what we know NOW…


24 posted on 02/03/2023 6:23:11 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: wastedyears

Did you not read what I wrote,, or do you just like to offend? I participated in the Moderna trial as a volunteer, knowing there were risks. I followed this all very closely, much was at stake for me personally if the mRNA human experiment went south. I didn’t just “believe what the TV told” me. I was exposed early and while not knowing if I had a placebo or the mRNA shots, and as part of th experiment statistics watched those closely. Do you even understand how they were able o make any call early on? Tens of thousands of participants, half without the “vaccine” - with symptoms and deaths closely watched and with the best of care given to any who got COVID. Success was found after a certain number of people died - all who were in the placebo group, none in the mRNA shot group. Thankfully I learned I was not in the placebo group. When given the option, my understanding was few in the placebo group decided to stay without the shot and just continue in the study as “unvaxxed” rather than receive the shots.

The TV might tell you a lot of things, some of it true and a lot not. Trump did a good thing, he enabled quick development and release to those willing a chance to avoid sickness and potentially death. I never advocated all must take the shots. The initial shots worked for the initial disease in those most at risk. The initial shots didn’t stop the variants, whether they lessened the severity of illness can be debated while statistics suggest they helped. But continued boosters have not proven effective.


25 posted on 02/03/2023 7:18:39 AM PST by LibertyOh
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To: SeekAndFind

The same physicians chastised me in the beginning when I expressed concerns about the injection and the lack of research in the possible side effects. I had a rather heated discussion with my personal physician who belittled me that the science was safe and discredited my previous experience with the virus and attempts to make a vaccine against it. His PA’s also parroted the CDC and NIH mantra that is found to have been incorrect. This whole handling of the Wuhan Virus outbreak has been nothing but a clusterfork. The Barrington Group were right from their first assessment.


26 posted on 02/03/2023 7:32:00 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: LibertyOh

It is good you made a cogent decision to not receive anymore of the injections. The reluctance and active resistance against ivermectin in the beginning of the outbreak by physicians was criminal IMO. A peer reviewed study in 2005 showed that in early infection with Coronavirus (SARS) ivermectin was >75% effective. Contrast this result with the effectiveness of the injection versus ivermectin and the risk versus benefit assessment is unchallenged in favor of ivermectin. A major lesson in epidemiology is that one cannot vaccinate out of an epidemic which was lost in this entire episode. The death rate overall would have been the same with or without the early mRNA injections. The mRNA injections were instrumental in creating more pathogenic variants instead of allowing the virus to run its course into less pathogenic variants which was the lesson learned in veterinary medicine.


27 posted on 02/03/2023 7:43:42 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: telescope115
"What could Trump have known? He only knew what his “experts” told him. He had no choice but to trust them. Had we known then what we know NOW…"
I find it troubling that Trump still doesn't seem to know what we know NOW.
28 posted on 02/03/2023 8:53:25 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Jane Long

Canada:

https://twitter.com/LeighAnnDale3/status/1617559748391452689


29 posted on 02/03/2023 8:57:09 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: lakecumberlandvet
Doctors have been knocked off their godly pedestals by their actions during the COVID pandemic and shown themselves to be mere flawed mortals.

I concluded a long time ago that doctors are no different that Joe Schmoe, except that doctors have good memories. Oh, and larger homes and fancier cars.
30 posted on 02/03/2023 9:15:54 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Hiddigeigei

Yup.


31 posted on 02/03/2023 9:43:27 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I am heartened to see Dr. Vinay Prasad (seems to finally be) on record that the “vaccines” are harmful. For months I could not understand his willingness to advocate for the clot-shots.
Well, I believe we are now seeing how there was an unknowing prejudice on the part of many healthcare practitioners. IOW, the people who are part of the medical system are pre-disposed to trust the “authority figures” in the medical system.


32 posted on 02/03/2023 12:23:48 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: telescope115

There have been pandemics in the past. How was this unprecedented?


33 posted on 02/03/2023 1:52:49 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: LibertyOh
Success was found after a certain number of people died - all who were in the placebo group, none in the mRNA shot group.

You mean the ones that were given remdesivir and put on a ventilator for no reason?

34 posted on 02/03/2023 1:53:58 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

What was unprecedented was the way this current pandemic was handled, by all the so-called “experts and their media accomplices.


35 posted on 02/03/2023 2:13:18 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

Also by the way they totally shut down our way of life, closing our schools, initiating lockdowns, forcing mandates upon us, putting our elderly in peril. Need I go on?


36 posted on 02/03/2023 2:17:10 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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