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Moderna Targeting Fall Release for Omicron Variant-Specific COVID-19 Boosters
epoch times ^ | 1 May A.D. 2022 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 05/01/2022 4:09:36 PM PDT by lightman

A top executive at vaccine maker Moderna said that an Omicron- and subvariant-specific COVID-19 vaccine booster will be potentially released by the company in the fall.

“We announced a couple weeks ago a new, variant-specific booster that we’ve been testing, and we have an additional candidate, our lead candidate, in testing now that I believe is going to be even more superior,” Moderna Chief Medical Officer Paul Burton told CBS on Sunday.

“We are confident that by the fall of this year, we should have large amounts of that new booster vaccine that will protect against Omicron and other variants, and really protect Americans and people around the world as we go into the fall of 2022.”

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)set a deadline of June for vaccine manufacturers to submit their respective formulas for variant-specific COVID-19 vaccines.

It comes after the company asked the FDA to authorize its vaccine for children under the age of 6. Burton told the outlet that the vaccine is only 37 percent in children aged 2 to 5 and 51 percent effective on children aged 2 and under. He said that because of the Omicron variant, the vaccine has a lower efficacy.

“What it means for parents or caregivers is that if they give the Moderna vaccine to these little kids, they would basically cut in half the risk of that children getting symptomatic COVID,” he claimed. “I know that 50 percent is often lower than what we’re used to seeing with our vaccine, but it’s because this study was conducted during a time of Omicron.”

Studies and data have shown that throughout the pandemic, small children saw the lowest hospitalization and death rates among all age groups. Elderly people and individuals with compromised immune systems have the highest COVID-19 death and hospitalization rates, according to data published by health agencies around the world.

And it is not clear how many American parents will want to vaccinate their children as data shows that only 28 percent of U.S. children in the 5 to 11 age group are fully vaccinated.

Meanwhile, data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that COVID-19 case numbers continue to remain vastly lower than the recent January 2022 peak. As of April 29, the 7-day average for U.S. cases stood at around 56,000, whereas on Jan. 15, the seven-day average was about 808,000.

On Tuesday, Pfizer asked the FDA to approve a third, or booster, dose for children aged 5 to 11.

COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid1984; moderna; omicron; vaccine
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An Omicron vaccine?

That train left for Auschwitz six months ago.

1 posted on 05/01/2022 4:09:36 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Quick close the barn door the horses got loose.


2 posted on 05/01/2022 4:11:43 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

And by fall almost everyone will have been exposed or “had” this dread disease so deadly that you need to take a “test” to know if you’ve had it.


3 posted on 05/01/2022 4:15:58 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Ummm yeah no. Unless it comes with a free prefilled mail in ballot.


4 posted on 05/01/2022 4:16:08 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Raycpa

Another EUA poison shot. At this point, there is no way any COVID “vaccine” is approved. How many times have they CHANGED the formula. Does FDA even have a clue what’s in this “new” formula??—— Spit !


5 posted on 05/01/2022 4:16:43 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Raycpa; lightman

No, no it also said subvariant specific. It said Omicron and subvariants. So they’re getting smarter.

This one will cover everything, even variants that have not come out yet. So this whole BS is going to get turned back on in the fall.


6 posted on 05/01/2022 4:17:57 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: lightman

Once per week boosters coming.


7 posted on 05/01/2022 4:19:04 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: lightman

We all got sick with the Omicron variant. So how are they going to predict the next one? Not much we can do at this point.


8 posted on 05/01/2022 4:19:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: lightman

Second verse same as the first
I’m Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am


9 posted on 05/01/2022 4:20:32 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: lightman

“Oh goody! More shots!” bleated the sheep through their masks, while jumping up and down in joy and anticipation.


10 posted on 05/01/2022 4:20:50 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: lightman

I refuse to take their suicide shots. I never will. These shots should be banned and removed from the market.


11 posted on 05/01/2022 4:21:08 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: OHPatriot

The emergency that never was is over. How are they allowed any more EUA’s for these clot shots?


12 posted on 05/01/2022 4:22:26 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes there is. Refuse to take them.


13 posted on 05/01/2022 4:23:09 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: dforest

Since when have Democrats ever followed the rules?? They make sh!t up as they go


14 posted on 05/01/2022 4:26:09 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Sarcazmo

Just in time for the election, of course.


15 posted on 05/01/2022 4:33:23 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: lightman
Moderna Targeting Fall Release for Omicron NEW Variant-Specific COVID-19 Boosters
16 posted on 05/01/2022 4:33:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: OHPatriot

Between a big ole war and another few rounds of body destroying clot shots with a famine thrown in, their desire to reduce the population may be a winner.


17 posted on 05/01/2022 4:39:37 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: lightman

Can we just inject billions of government money directly into Modern’s and Pfizer’s arms and skip the middleman of injecting us?


18 posted on 05/01/2022 4:56:17 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: lightman
This is very unlikely, to say the least. Moderna, the Theranos of pharmaceutical companies, is just making happy talk now to calm its jittery stockholders. It's all they've got at this point. Their Wuhan-strain vaccine is dangerous, rushed-to-market garbage. Their vaunted mRNA platform doesn't work in this setting, if indeed it will ever be shown to work in any setting involving human health. And everyone paying attention knows this.

There will be no "variant-specific" vaccine coming out of this fake company. They're just hoping that it's true that there's "one born every minute."

19 posted on 05/01/2022 5:10:38 PM PDT by DSH
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To: lightman

Bill Gates Warns: ‘We’ve Not Seen the Worst of Covid’
5/1/2022, 4:10:15 PM · 53 of 68
algore to Openurmind

“He is not going to stop until the human species is wiped out. Sounds like he is planning to release another one...”

I just now realized why John McAfee was murdered.

he had said he knew the what when where how and why of the Biden win, but I had assumed that was dominion related.

Gates may have a reduction agenda? but at this point he makes money if there is a corona in every home, and paid updates to your mRna antivirus software.

I have met Gates a few times, but always wanted to party with McAfee


20 posted on 05/01/2022 5:25:16 PM PDT by algore
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