Posted on 01/25/2022 7:35:26 AM PST by MNDude
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A fourth dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine is largely ineffective in stopping Omicron infections despite boosting antibodies, an Israeli hospital study showed.
Healthcare workers at the Sheba Medical Center who received a fourth dose of the vaccine continued to get infected even though blood tests showed an increase in two key kinds of antibodies, according to professor Gili Regev-Yochay who led the research.
The preliminary findings, which are yet to be published, add to the global debate about the effectiveness of repeat doses of the Covid vaccine after booster shots, as some public health experts argue that regular shots are unsustainable in the long term.
Just over 150 members of the Tel Aviv hospital received fourth doses of the Pfizer vaccine, part of an ongoing experiment where thousands of Sheba employees have had regular serology tests — which look for antibodies in blood that fight infection — beginning from before their first doses in December 2020 to track the vaccine’s efficacy.
Enough of them tested positive for coronavirus two weeks after their fourth jabs to indicate that the level of antibodies needed to protect against infection from Omicron was “probably too high” for the vaccine to induce, said Regev-Yochay.
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Thanks for the clarity and the absence of scorn, mockery, ridicule, etc. etc.
Would that these kinds of comments and earnest experience were on the boards more frequently.
Prayers up for you, and again, thanks for the very welcome survivor's report.
Omicron don’t care about how many vaccinations you have had. Omicron don’t care about the mask you wear or social distancing or how many times you wash your hands. Omicron is the Honey Badger of Covid Variants. Omicron don’t care.
Well shoot, maybe they should 5 or 6, maybe those will work.
Here is a great Jew’s take on the Jabs:
Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
A 5th has been recommended at this point. They are already on 4.
Fourth???
Is it the same with Pfizer?
Is that why we're going to war and why we're going to suffer more under the 'rules' of this damn China virus?
IS THAT WHY WE'RE GIVING FREE PLANE TICKETS AND $2,000 TO EACH ILLEGAL WILLING TO DESTABILIZE THE COUNTRY? Biden and the DC filth need to pay back "favors"?
14 glasses = 17% less likely to get covid, let me do the math...... damn, I’m 100% less likely, YESSSSSS.
Uh Oh, get ready for a fifth jab.
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A 5th has been recommended at this point. They are already on 4.
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what was the old joke?
“if they had as many “needles” sticking out of them as they’ve had stuck in, they’d look like a porcupine”
While you are correct we should care very little about omicron.
It is incredibly mild. It will not kill you (unless you are already on hospice) and there are many seasonal or outbreak illnesses such as influenza and rotovirus among others that are far worse.
This whole “omicron” thing is ridiculous.
PS - ask yourself why the government is mandating “vaccines” that are for a variant that is no longer in circulation. Look at Israel. Vaccination is now worthless. In fact, it is more risky than the virus for everyone without serious co-morbidity.
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