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.
Bill Gates: Third shot may be needed to combat coronavirus variants
Or, like his software, just let the users sort it out!
Ever seen someone crippled by polio hobbling around with their crutches? Polio is basically eradicated now thanks to a vaccine.
Measles used to kill about 2.6 million people, mostly children, every year before the vaccine in 1963 and the children who didn't die had a chance of becoming mentally retarded. Now, thanks to vaccines, it's basically eradicated in the United States at least. In places where the vaccine is not readily available, it still kills 140,000 people a year.
An outbreak of rubella in the early 1960s resulted in 20,000 children being born with brain damage, including autism, and other congenital abnormalities. Rubells is all but eliminated now thanks to the MMR vaccine.
Small Pox was still killing about 2 million people a year (and causing widespread human misery) as recently as 1967. It had killed 300-500 million people prior to it's eradication in the 1960s.
Hib used to infect about 20,000 U.S. children a year prior to the HiB vaccine in 1992. Its incidence has been decreased by 99% thanks to the HiB vaccine. I have actually seen one case of epiglottis in a child who did not have the vaccine.
I'm not into anal swabs but I'm all about saving innocent lives and ending human suffering and I don't have a ton of respect for people that think they're protecting their children by skipping their vaccines and I despise people that get on the internet and tell people that they shouldn't immunize their children because-insert conspiracy theory here.
So basically, FU.
LOL! Good ONE!!
“Vaccines save millions of lives. “
Do you know anything about Bill’s vaccine antics in India and Africa? He needs to be hung, in public, on TV and his foundation needs to be confiscated.
He needs a lethal dose, Im sick of these scumbags
No, tell me.
He needs to be hung, in public, on TV
I feel similarly about a whole lot of people. .
“No, tell me.”
You can look it up.
Enough to give him more power and control.
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that.
All the following are just updates.(think blue screen of death)
They are literally starting to wright code to you DNA.
Bttt!
“Wonder how many gullible FReepers will just continue to get these shots?”
Probably the same amount as use Facebook, Twitter and Google.
“The people who “listen” to Bill Gates do so because he his a billionaire who says the “right” things.”
As with Bezos, Zuck, Pichai, Hollywood and sports celeb’, big lefty politicians.
And they all love the A-list parties and events (that proles can’t get near).
“At current rates of population growth, India is on track to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation in a few years.”
And Kamala is half Indian. Hmm...imagine that...
“This is gene therapy, not a vaccine.
All the following are just updates.(think blue screen of death)
They are literally starting to wright code to you DNA.”
Hence Gates’ love of it — he knows the model well.
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