Posted on 01/14/2023 9:19:50 AM PST by bitt
In August 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave emergency authorization to the new booster shot called “bivalent.”
The new vaccine contains two messenger RNA (mRNA) components of the coronavirus. Half of the vaccine targets the original strain, and the other half targets the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariant lineages.
The new COVID boosters were not tested on humans at the time, only on mice. FDA was only relying on the mice trial data.
The CDC panel then voted to recommend the shots for people over the age of 12 and for children as young as 5 to 11.
“Since children have gone back to school in person and people are resuming pre-pandemic behaviors and activities, there is the potential for increased risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19. Vaccination remains the most effective measure to prevent the severe consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D.
“While it has largely been the case that COVID-19 tends to be less severe in children than adults, as the various waves of COVID-19 have occurred, more children have gotten sick with the disease and have been hospitalized. Children may also experience long-term effects, even following initially mild disease. We encourage parents to consider primary vaccination for children and follow-up with an updated booster dose when eligible,” he added.
However, two independent studies conducted by scientists from Columbia University in New York City and Harvard University found that the new boosters did not produce a better antibody response in humans against BA.5 than the first-generation vaccines.
They compared samples from 21 patients in the Columbia research and 18 people in the Harvard study who received the new boosters to people who received the old vaccine as their fourth shot.
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Where did you read they are putting it our food??
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I would provide the link, but you said you like being dumb
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You gonna hunker down in your bunker E..??
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Get another booster. Please.
I have natural immunity...
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