Coronavirus: Pfizer jab 'stopping 91% of cases in first six months'

BBC ^ | 4/1/2021

[Republican Wildcat]

Pfizer says its vaccine is preventing 91% of coronavirus cases in the six months after people are immunised.

And a separate study shows even people in their 80s and 90s are producing impressive levels of antibodies after receiving both doses of the vaccine.

Only 63% of them, however, also produce the T-cells that help maintain those antibodies in the longer term.

And the crucial question of how long the protection from the vaccine lasts remains unanswered.

Pfizer analysed data from 46,000 people on the original clinical trial, exactly six months after their second dose.

It also looked at 800 trial participants in South Africa and concluded the vaccine was equally effective against the variant identified there - despite laboratory studies suggesting people's antibodies were less effective at attacking this variant.

"The high vaccine efficacy observed through up to six months following a second dose and against the variant prevalent in South Africa provides further confidence in our vaccine's overall effectiveness," chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said.

[Paul R.]

This nonsense we hear about “no flu deaths” (therefor: Conspiracy!!) comes because we have people who are either so ignorant or biased that they won’t realize or accept that COVID-19 mitigation efforts, clumsily and ham-fisted and overly onerously as they were laid on us in most cases..., plus voluntary efforts, are much more effective against flu than they are against COVID-19.

This doesn’t mean I agree with the gov’t mandates and such at all: I think mitigation cost was far too high, mainly because most of the directives came from people whose brains fossilized with the dinosaurs. We got mediocre mitigation at incredible cost: A typical gov’t result. But, that doesn’t mean COVID infection rates were not reduced in a mediocre way, and flu, more so. (Sorry for the double negative.)

[SecAmndmt]

“However, it is tricky to know what the safe dose of zinc if you are planning to take large daily amounts. I say no more that 20 mg daily and let your hamburger and oyster consumption make up any extra you need.”

Please stop offering me specific medical advice.

Both my own MD and FLCCC suggests higher amounts of zinc.

[RC one]

Yeah, you get it. Norovirus (stomach flu) outbreaks are pretty common every winter. There were about 750 such outbreaks reported in 2019. There were about 35 in 2020. Same reason-Covid mitigation.