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.
3rd shot is called the Oswald.....back and to the left
Bill Gates mouthing off definitely makes me say NO to the mRNA jab. I don’t trust this guy.
Follow the money....right into Gates’ wallet.
Like Climate Change Gates is heavily invested in Pharmaceuticals. And like most who do so think they're experts on what they invest in.....unfortunately so does the media.
Ka- ching is right!
How’s it going to kill you? We have given in the neighborhood of 200 million doses globally and how many people have died? It doesn’t seem very deadly. It seems like it’s just doing what it is supposed to do.
No big deal.
I’m already two shots behind.
No, I never slept with your mother.
GFY, nerd.
I will wait to hear what Dr Jill Biden has to say
My thoughts also. This geek is not an elected official nor someone with an MD.
I wouldn’t even ask him for advice about my computer!..............
“Why in hell is anyone asking Bill Gates anything?”
And broadcasting and promoting it? Did he even graduate college? Fix the damned viruses on your blasted computers Gates, and do not concerns yourself with national medical policy.
I remember when YouTube, Facebook and Twitter were banning actual doctors who were advising about Covid, Covid treatments, (Hydroxy), and these certified professionals were BANNED for not facilitating the ruse to support the coming election-fraud.
They are all complicit in that fraud against this nation! That fraud that persists today in the White House.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, you are both fraudsters!
Your posting history does not bear that out.
Glad it hasn’t been a problem for you. Yet.
However, you cannot guarantee that to everyone for everyone.
My tagline.
It’s all about the money, money, moooooney.
It took a few years for the all the Chinese to start dying in the 70s after they had the swine flu shot, but die they did. It took 5-10 years. If everyone started dying right away, nobody would keep taking it.
Bill Gates wants to sell you a beta version of someone else’s vaccine where you have to license a third party company for continual safety updates to keep it working...just like he did with Windows.
He’s an M.D.? (doctor, not mad democrat)
They’ve already admitted the sheeple will need a yearly vaccine. Just like the regular flu vaccine, it’ll be a roll of the dice which version will be given each year.
Between Gates and Soros being the most evil, I’m leaning toward Gates.
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