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Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit virus after vaccination
https://thehill.com ^ | 12.03.2020 | JOSEPH CHOI

Posted on 12/04/2020 7:47:24 AM PST by rxsid

Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit virus after vaccination

Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Dateline host Lester Holt that the pharmaceutical company was “not certain” if the vaccine prevented the coronavirus from being transmitted, saying, “This is something that needs to be examined.”

In a prime-time special titled “Race for a Vaccine” set to air Thursday, Holt questioned Bourla and other individuals involved in the development and distribution of the medicine.

In November, Pfizer announced that its vaccine candidate had been shown to be more than 90 percent effective at preventing COVID-19 and has applied for emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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In a list of interview highlights released before the special, Holt asked Bourla, “Even though I’ve had the protection, am I still able to transmit it to other people?”

“I think this is something that needs to be examined. We are not certain about that right now with what we know,” Bourla responded.

Though Pfizer’s vaccine has shown promising results, challenges have surfaced when it comes to distributing and administering it. The vaccine must be delivered and stored in extreme sub-zero temperatures, which has heightened the demand for dry ice.

Once the vaccine is kept at normal refrigeration temperatures, it must be used within four or five days or be discarded. The vaccine is administered in two doses spaced a few weeks apart.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albertbourla; bourla; chinavirus; coronavirus; covid; covid19; pfizer; sarscov2; vaccine; wuflu
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To: rxsid

Sounds like the vaccine business is the greatest form of legalized theft out there.

Get billions in government subsidies, get total immunity from lawsuits that no one has, and never have to verify that your product actually does what you claim it will do.

What a scam.


21 posted on 12/04/2020 8:23:27 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Diogenesis
Most of the "fact checkers", that's why I used " ". I know it's a military lab doing research on creating mutations in virus'. I believe Fauci was familiar with the research there, and the NIH claimed at one time to have pulled out due to poor security. And our funding began after Congress banned research in the US on research mutations, including SARS and MERS. I'm using mutations incorrectly, but can't recall the term for man made mutations. But the story is it came from a market.

If the current virus impacted younger people, even if putting them out of action for a few weeks, being highly contageous it would be a heck of a weapon.

22 posted on 12/04/2020 8:24:19 AM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: rxsid

‘Of course the 10% would still be able to pass the virus if the vaccine didn’t work for them. Naturally.

My point is this: If they are unsure the vaccination will prevent you from getting it , then it must also be uncertain if you can transmit it even having taken the vaccine and not contracting the virus. It’s just a question of probabilities just like everything else in science.


23 posted on 12/04/2020 8:25:35 AM PST by RonnG ('')
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To: rxsid

So, just get the vaccine like we say and you’ll have nothing to worry about. /s


24 posted on 12/04/2020 8:28:50 AM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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To: nevergore

Salk didn’t break polio. Hygiene and access to better water etc did. It was trending down before the vaccine already and after it started trending up again.


25 posted on 12/04/2020 8:30:39 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Savage Rider
1. Virus gets into your body.
2. Virus starts reproducing.
3. Immune system already sensitized to virus through vaccination attacks and destroys virus.
4. Person lives happy, healthy life after having no or minimal symptoms.

Is there a time between steps 2 and 3 where enough viruses have reproduced that there is a chance to spread it? Since we don't know what viral load is minimum for contagion and there probably weren't enough blood tests of the vaccine testers to track the virus count from infection to cure - and that's only if some were intentionally infected at a specific time - there is no way to know yet if the vaccinated can spread the disease.

The Pfizer chairman is acting responsibly with a lack of knowledge.

26 posted on 12/04/2020 8:30:41 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: rxsid

Do you have to be tested before you get the vaccine? Doesn’t make sense to give it to someone that has the virus since vaccines are preventatives, not cures. Read the article but it doesn’t say anything about this. Maybe I just don’t understand how vaccines work? Sorry to sound clueless but would appreciate some help here:)


27 posted on 12/04/2020 8:32:03 AM PST by freedomispriceless
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To: rxsid

So the vaccine will create an army of Typhoid Marys?

Give me the disease. It’s safer than the vaccine.


28 posted on 12/04/2020 8:36:07 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: rxsid

Thalidomide would be approved in a short trial like this one. It takes years to determine all the side effects of a new drug.


29 posted on 12/04/2020 8:43:05 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: rxsid; All
Not only is a Big Pharma company questioning the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine, but Dr. Fauci says that we still need to wear masks and social distance.
Social distancing, masks still necessary after getting COVID-19 vaccine: Fauci (11.15.20)

I remember Trump bragging about making experimental drugs available to people who are dying which I regard as reasonable.

But regardless that Trump has been bragging about COVID-19 vaccine being made available in record breaking time, the doubts being expressed by medical experts concerning efficacy of vaccine lead me to conclude that it is still experimental, and that only high-risk people should take vaccine in my non-medical opinion.

Insights welcome.

In the meanwhile, it’s follow the money, the lucrative government vaccine contracts.

I'm not sure what to think about this one.

Warning: Renowned Virologist Sucharit Bhakdi Warns Against Hastily Created Gene-Altering Coronavirus Vaccine (Video) (9.25.20)

30 posted on 12/04/2020 8:50:04 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: rxsid

What matters is that the gov’t forces you to get the vaccine and you must have this vaccine record card or you will not be able to travel or work without it. You must present it at the request of the police at all times except when you are protesting....
https://rantingly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CNN-vacunacio%CC%81n.jpg


31 posted on 12/04/2020 8:53:23 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: freedomispriceless
"Do you have to be tested before you get the vaccine? Doesn’t make sense to give it to someone that has the virus since vaccines are preventatives, not cures."

I don't think that can be answered with any authority at this point, again...because there is a lack of data due to a lack to time studying it in humans.

Regarding the flu vaccine, most health professionals ask if your currently sick with certain symptoms before administering the shot because they generally don't want to stress your already stressed immune system. If you've had it, but are over it, they will generally administer the shot with the thinking that...since the flu vaccine can protect against several strains, it still might be beneficial.

Another question regarding this vaccine (Pfizer's) would be...since this vaccine requires 2 shots, how precise of a timeline do those shots need to be given?
We're told they need to be given a few weeks apart. That doesn't sound very precise.
Many patients are notorious for not taking their medication/shots/treatment properly.
What if someone gets the shot a few days after the optimal time? Do they have partial immunity? What does that look like in terms of disease prevention? Do they need a 3rd shot? What is the safety profile of a 3rd shot, if any? Or, would they have to go with whatever partial immunity they may have and wait X number of months before starting all over?

Another question...since this vaccine has very specific storage requirements that are difficult for most places that would be administering it, we're told this vaccine must be used within 4 or 5 days once kept at "normal refrigeration" temperatures.
Again, that's not very specific.
Have they run trials and studied what happens if many people are given a 1st dose vaccine that's been refrigerated for 5 days...but then comes back in a few weeks and is given a vaccine that is recently brought out of deep freeze and refrigerated for less than a day? Meaning, their 1st dose was not fresh and their 2nd dose was. How about the reverse of that scenario?

32 posted on 12/04/2020 9:01:35 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha !

Screw your stupid vaccine !!


33 posted on 12/04/2020 9:08:20 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: rxsid

Thank you so much for your informative reply. There is certainly a lot to consider. I intend to wait before I consider getting the vaccine even though at age 71 I’m considered at risk to some extent. There is just too much uncertainty at this point.


34 posted on 12/04/2020 9:32:32 AM PST by freedomispriceless
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To: minnesota_bound

“What matters is that the gov’t forces you to get the vaccine and you must have this vaccine record card or you will not be able to travel or work without it. You must present it at the request of the police at all times except when you are protesting....
https://rantingly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CNN-vacunacio%CC%81n.jpg

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I see a business opportunity


35 posted on 12/04/2020 10:04:58 AM PST by khelus
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To: SJackson

Everyone just needs to hold their breath for 3 months and the problem will solve itself.


36 posted on 12/04/2020 1:42:16 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: freedomispriceless
Do you have to be tested before you get the vaccine? Doesn’t make sense to give it to someone that has the virus since vaccines are preventatives, not cures.

Aaah. But for everything other than voting you'll need your vaccination card comrade.

37 posted on 12/04/2020 1:58:48 PM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: rxsid

We still have “flu deaths” with a flu vaccine widely available and handed out for free.


38 posted on 12/05/2020 3:56:39 AM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: SJackson

Some vaccines such as rabies and the experimental HIV vaccines were given to the infected, as a means to assist the immune system in fighting a current infection. The experimental HIV vaccines didn’t work however. The rabies ones do.


39 posted on 12/05/2020 3:57:58 AM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: deweyfrank
So, just get the vaccine like we say and you’ll have nothing to worry about. /s

And don't you dare take that filthy mask off!

40 posted on 12/05/2020 4:02:28 AM PST by Drew68
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