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Britain’s Health Security Agency Report: Booster Shots Offer Protection Against Infection for Only 10 Weeks. But That May Be All That's Needed for Omicron
PJ Media ^ | 12/24/2021 | Rick Moran

Posted on 12/24/2021 10:03:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A new report from Britain’s Health Security Agency found that the Covid booster shots being pushed by Joe Biden and other governments are effective against contracting the omicron variant of Covid-19 for only 10 weeks.

The effectiveness of the booster shot in preventing serious disease and death from omicron is unknown, but previous experience suggests it will provide significant protection.

The omicron variant is built to evade our best efforts to create a vaccine against it. Its biology allows it to dodge the antibodies that are produced after vaccination or even after infection by another variant of the coronavirus.

New York Times:

Among people who received two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a booster with one of the mRNA vaccines, made by Pfizer and Moderna, was 60 percent effective at preventing symptomatic disease two to four weeks after the shot. After 10 weeks, however, the Pfizer booster was just 35 percent effective. The Moderna booster was 45 percent effective at up to nine weeks. (The AstraZeneca vaccine is not authorized in the United States, but the Johnson & Johnson shot uses a similar technology.)

For people who were given three Pfizer doses, vaccine effectiveness dropped from 70 percent one week after the booster to 45 percent after 10 weeks. Pfizer recipients who received a Moderna booster, on the other hand, seemed to fare better; their vaccine regimen remained up to 75 percent effective at up to nine weeks.

What good would a booster shot do if it’s only effective for 10 weeks? In the case of the omicron variant, that might be all that’s needed.

Omicron is extraordinarily contagious. It’s the most contagious of all coronavirus variants and may be spreading faster than any infection in history.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: booster; omicron; vaccines
Evidence to date suggests the symptoms of omicron are milder than other variants and fewer people will be hospitalized.

But if seventy times the number of people are being infected in a short period of time than other variants, the fraction of people becoming severely sick may be lower, but the absolute number could be higher, filling up beds in ICUs.

In South Africa, where the variant apparently originated, the wave is already receding after only about a month. While extraordinarily infectious, its speed suggests a flame-out regarding the intensity of the wave.

Ten weeks of protection may be all that’s needed.

1 posted on 12/24/2021 10:03:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It is to laugh.


2 posted on 12/24/2021 10:05:31 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind
Fauchlov's dogs:

Ring the booster bell, and watch the salivating begin...

3 posted on 12/24/2021 10:07:19 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Covid booster shots being pushed by Joe Biden and other governments are effective for boosting the stock portfolios of vaxx billionaires for at least another few months, and may even pay for those third and fourth houses in the Southern Pacific and the Bahamas.


4 posted on 12/24/2021 10:15:00 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

TWO MONTHS?!

Unless you have a concerted and organized effort to immunize EVERYBODY at once - it’s a worthless proposition!


5 posted on 12/24/2021 10:19:05 PM PST by Skywise
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To: SeekAndFind

So get a booster every ten weeks. Easy peasy.


6 posted on 12/24/2021 10:20:24 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SeekAndFind

[[but the absolute number could be higher, filling up beds in ICUs.]]

Nope- report out tonight that 79% of the beds are used up, not 100%+ like they claim- with only 9% of the beds taken by covid patients-

Emergency roons likewise- only 79% full, and only 19% of the cases in them are covid related-


7 posted on 12/24/2021 10:24:25 PM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

The amount of folks boosted getting the disease is alarming. The injections are not ‘sterilizing’. Appears the vaxxed have entered the ‘Hotel California’ and will be need to jabbed regularly the rest of their lives. I have no idea what that would do to one’s body but my gut tells that can’t be good.


8 posted on 12/24/2021 10:25:40 PM PST by week 71
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To: Jeff Chandler
So get a booster every ten weeks. Easy peasy.

Eventually you'll completely eliminate that pesky immune system that keeps the peasants alive. Job done. Money made. Welcome robot friends.

9 posted on 12/24/2021 10:26:22 PM PST by Stentor ( )
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To: Stentor

Beep beep.


10 posted on 12/24/2021 10:27:13 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Britain’s Health Security Agency Report: Booster Shots Offer Protection Against Infection for Only 10 Weeks. But That May Be All That’s Needed for Omicron”

Whereas natural immunity will pretty much last your lifetime. Go figure. God actually knows what he’s doing. Puny humans.


11 posted on 12/24/2021 10:31:08 PM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t forget that there’s a TWO WEEK ramp up period before the vaccine is at full effect - so you’re technically looking at LESS THAN TWO MONTHS


12 posted on 12/24/2021 10:31:28 PM PST by Skywise
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To: SeekAndFind

worth watching:

26 Nov: Youtube: 3m54s: GB News UK: Covid: Report reveals increase in risk of heart attack following the mRNA COVID vaccine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8t0qQ5R4I


13 posted on 12/25/2021 3:15:03 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: SeekAndFind; week 71

14 posted on 12/25/2021 4:02:08 AM PST by 4Liberty (Let's go Brandon 👏 ...👏 ...👏👏👏 https://youtu.be/qr_F_XQrukM?t=1)
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To: SeekAndFind

Until the 10 weeks are over, then another booster for another ten weeks.


15 posted on 12/25/2021 4:30:32 AM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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To: kiryandil

And if it were to be effective at preventing the near term acquisition of Omicron it would be pushing back the time wen the WuHan flu fades into a version of the seasonal flu. Pushing the vaxxine in any form is extending the period of leftist control of the society by ever more controls and mandates.


16 posted on 12/25/2021 4:33:50 AM PST by arthurus (covfefe U)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I’m on my way to get my 3rd Clot shot because the first 2 didn’t work”

-Said the biggest dumbazz in the world.


17 posted on 12/25/2021 5:42:11 AM PST by afchief
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To: SeekAndFind

Gee, I wonder what the Powers That Be are up to while the rubes are distracted by the COVID snipe hunt. Too bad for them that the people are beginning to lose interest. What do you suppose they’ll come up with next?


18 posted on 12/25/2021 7:15:47 AM PST by Iowa Slim
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To: SeekAndFind

In other words, no deaths to report from Omicron.


19 posted on 12/25/2021 9:21:20 AM PST by RideForever (One of the CoVID naturally immune control group)
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