Posted on 02/19/2021 10:08:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With more than 40 million Americans having received at least the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, a third dose may be needed to prevent the spread of new variants of the disease, Bill Gates told CBS News Tuesday.
Gates’ comments come amid growing concern that the current vaccines are not effective against the more contagious Brazilian and South African variants.
Pfizer and Moderna have stated that their vaccines are 95% and 99% effective, respectively, against the initial strain of COVID. However, some scientists have questioned those statements. Additionally, the World Health Organization and vaccine companies have conceded that the vaccines do not prevent people from being infected with COVID or from transmitting it, but are only effective at reducing symptoms.
Gates told CBS Evening News:
“The discussion now is do we just need to get a super high coverage of the current vaccine, or do we need a third dose that’s just the same, or do we need a modified vaccine?”
U.S. vaccine companies are looking at making modifications, which Gates refers to as “tuning.”
People who have had two shots may need to get a third shot and people who have not yet been vaccinated would need the modified vaccine, explained Gates. When asked whether the coronavirus vaccine would be similar to the flu vaccine, which requires yearly boosters, Gates couldn’t rule that out. Until the virus is eradicated from all humans, Gates said, additional shots may be needed in the future.
“AstraZeneca in particular has a challenge with the variant,” Gates explained. “And the other two, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, are slightly less effective, but still effective enough that we absolutely should get them out as fast as we can while we study this idea of tuning the vaccine.”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding the studies being conducted in Brazil and South Africa, CBS News said. The foundation has also invested in the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and the Novavax vaccines, which are being tested against new variants. Once the AstraZeneca vaccine is approved, the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative or GAVI, founded by Gates, will distribute it globally.
“Gates continues to move the goalposts,” said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief legal counsel of Children’s Health Defense. “Meanwhile the strategies he and others have promoted are obliterating the global economy, demolishing the middle class, making the rich richer and censoring vaccine safety advocates, like me.”
Kennedy said that the exclusive focus on vaccines has prevented the kind of progress required to actually address and recover from the pandemic:
“From the pandemic’s outset, clear-headed people familiar with the challenges inherent in the vaccine model have understood that the path out of crisis would require multiple steps. Those steps would need to include the development and/or identification of therapeutic drugs, the sharing of information among doctors to hone improved treatment models that reduce infection mortality rates below those for flu, and the kind of broad-spectrum long-term herd immunity that protects against mutant strains and that only derives from natural infection.”
Instead, Gates and vaccine makers are proposing a lifetime of boosters, supporting insufficient testing to determine safety and failing to address the inadequate monitoring of vaccine injuries, Kennedy said.
Why in hell is anyone asking Bill Gates anything?.......................
Bill Gates doesn’t want you to get the vaccine. He wants you to get Covid. He is Jedi mind tricking you. Vaccines save millions of lives. Bill gates has a problem with that. tune that effer out.
That is just an opening round of telling you to get a new does every year.
Now, in as much as I have never had the flu vaccine and never had a serious flu illness, you can imagine just how much all this matters to me.
So says the college dropout.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding the studies being conducted in Brazil and South Africa, CBS News said. The foundation has also invested in the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and the Novavax vaccines...
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If the first and second shot doesn’t kill you, the third will.
Bill, do us all a favor and go drop dead. You’ve done all the good you were going to do - the invention and standardization of programs that make all of our communication possible - and now you’re just messing up your good deeds with evil garbage.
Bill knows as much about the Covid vaccine as Hollywood actresses know about Global Warming. But it seems that he is worrying that the loss of fertility the experts promised two vaccination would provide in young people is not panning out. Maybe four would get closer to the desired effect on the birth rate?
“Funding the studies being conducted in Brazil and South Africa”
Who appointed Bill Gates to anything? Maybe his handlers, the CCP?
....Additionally, the World Health Organization and vaccine companies have conceded that the vaccines do not prevent people from being infected with COVID or from transmitting it, but are only effective at reducing symptoms.....
The Israeli results say different!!!!
Gates and the WHO—as well as biden/harris/rice/obama—just don’t want us to get back to normal!!!!
Couldn’t see that one coming.
Ka-ching......
Now they’re pushing two masks and three shots.
By next year, Resident Biden admin. will be ordering everyone to wear a full haz-mat body suit.
Your logic is impeccable. Ever had syfilis?
Take your chances with Covid then. I don’t care what you do or don’t do. I got the vaccine and I’m fine though. No worries whatsoever.
Gates is positively clueless. All he does is parrot the most recent popular opinion from the Swamp. He’s completely brainless.
This can mainly be attributed to senility, or maybe he’s been this way all along. He’s maybe been simply lucky.
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