Posted on 10/14/2022 2:16:18 PM PDT by lightman
Few people have received updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters since it was first made available in August, according to recent data published by the federal government.
About 14.8 million have received bivalent boosters made by Pfizer and Moderna, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data that was published Thursday shows. The Food and Drug Administration provided emergency use authorizations for both booster doses on Aug. 31 for people aged 12 and older, while it signed off on an emergency approval for children aged 5 to 11 this week.
Some 226 million people have received their primary vaccination series, CDC data shows. It means that about 6.5 percent of people who are eligible got the updated boosters, which were designed to target the Omicron variant and several of its subvariants.
The Biden administration has repeatedly called on people to get the bivalent booster shots. Earlier this week, White House COVID-19 coordinator Ashish Jha earlier this month claimed that “tens of thousands of lives” could be saved by people taking the booster shot.
“Each of the last two winters we have seen increases in Covid infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. There are new subvariants of Omicron emerging that are going to pose substantial challenges to several of our therapies. So our message is very simple: Don’t wait. Get vaccinated,” he stated. Lack of Testing?
However, some medical professionals—including members of an FDA advisory panel—have recommended that young people shouldn’t receive the updated boosters.
Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, said in a CNN interview that he isn’t convinced the Omicron-specific shots will provide any benefit to that age cohort.
“When you’re asking people to get a vaccine, I think there has to be clear evidence of benefit,” he said in September. “And we’re not going to have clinical studies, obviously, before this launches, but you’d like to have at least human data [on] people getting this vaccine, you see a clear and dramatic increase in neutralizing antibiotics, and then at least you have a correlate of protection against [Omicron subvariant] BA.4, BA.5.”
Offit, in the interview and during the FDA panel’s meeting in August, cited concerns that there was a lack of human testing before they were rolled out.
Dr. Oliver Brooks, an advisor during that meeting, conceded that “I really do struggle with a vaccine that has no clinical data that has been reported for humans.”
Other than the lack of testing, Offit told the Financial Times that Americans have “booster fatigue” and feel “they are mostly protected” from COVID-19 at this point.
“The pandemic is largely behind them,” he added, “so I think there will be less interest in these boosters.”
Well he will just have to mandate the boosters for the serfs. It’s for their own good.
Funny how the military doesn’t require the boosters...
Science says you need them to be FULLY vaccinated
We’ve all probably been “naturally” boosted several times already without knowing it given the behavior and lower potency of the latest variants.
still no sign of comirnaty
gosh! almost like it was never approved at all
why give up the legal immunity when you dont have to
saw one commercial for comirnaty with all the side effects
then nothing
The CDC no longer differentiates between vaccinated and unvaccinated for health care mitigation protocols.
Let's see where the EU investigation of the MRNA vaccines winds up..., they have launched an investigation this week...
Science says you need them for hurricanes too.
If it were up to me, there would be a forensic audit on the top 10 people (and their families) at Pfizer for years 2019 through 2Q2022.
If it were up to me, there would be a forensic audit on the top 10 people (and their families) at Pfizer for years 2019 through 2Q2022. And Fauci!
Everyone is on to the NWO’s deadly scam
It’s more like:
“Boosters”: “vaccinating” today for NEXT month’s variant.
Remember when they tried that advice?
One of the variants hadn’t hit yet, and they were hawking
the last booster because it would help.
LOL
People I know in the vaxxed community ran out and got this latest booster. Then they all got sick the next day from the shot. They saw no problem with that.
Novavax is, unfortunately, toxic too as it’s made up of spike proteins which damage/cause inflammation to heart and organs.
I would like to thank Black Americans for showing us that Covid vaccinations were unnecessary.
and who are this stupid “few”? never mind. You reap what you inject.
If the Dims take Congress, they’ll pass a law mandating it. Senile Biden will gladly sign it.
Now that "safe and effective" has been demonstrated a marketing slogan which is untrue, why would one unquestioningly have an experiment -- it remains in phase three clinical trials -- continue to be injected into one's body. Informed consent without information?
Besides the mortality rate across almost three years remains less than one-tenth of one percent worldwide.
Reposting again for those who have not seen this:
As of 1 October 2022, 33 months into the so-called and supposedly continuing pandemic, here is the mortality rate using official sources. ( 6,545,971 global deaths / 7,924,032,450 global population ) x 100 = 0.0826 percent morality rate. Still less that one tenth of one percent of the global population.
Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock
I got a call from Walgreen’s pharmacy saying that the have the booster shot available. No dice for me.
They are trying to “voluntell” soldiers to get boosted when they get their annual flu shot. Pretty much forcing it.
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