Posted on 02/03/2022 9:47:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
COVID-19 vaccines are saving an untold number of lives, but they can’t stop the chaos when a hugely contagious new mutant bursts on the scene, leading people to wonder: Will we need boosters every few months? A new vaccine recipe? A new type of shot altogether?
That’s far from settled, but with the shots still doing their main job many experts are cautioning against setting too high a bar.
“We need collectively to be rethinking what is the goal of vaccination,” said Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, infectious disease chief at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. “It’s unrealistic ... to believe that any kind of vaccination is going to protect people from infection, from mild symptomatic disease, forever.”
If the goal is preventing serious illness, “we may not need to be doing as much fine-tuning of the vaccines every time a new variant comes.”
Overshadowing all of these questions is that “we don’t know how to predict the next strain,” said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief. He wants to see a global strategy that defines the trigger for any vaccine change. “Otherwise we are going to have a confused public, again.”
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What was that about banning misinformation? The AP is the top contender.
Are they? Where is the scientific proof of that conveniently self-serving statement?
Translation: They don't work but keep taking them and don't blame the current administration, comrade.
Goebbels was still telling the German public that the Nazis were winning the war in 1944.
Yes, we need new ones. The current shots are assisting the spread the virus to the point that total deaths are going up now even with a lower percentage of fatal cases among cases.
There’s a new Potassium Chloride based covid-19 vax developed by a biopharm start up called YouthInAsia Meds out of Indonesia which is run by Australians.
The vax is to be distributed free of charge and the initial target groups to receive the jab are elected officials and government employees.
I’m going to jump all over their IPO.
Brilliant...just follow the science.
100% effective in stopping all Covid-19 variant viruses, stops ‘em dead.
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Well played sir!
Beginning to backtrack.
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