Posted on 02/21/2022 9:07:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Could a much-delayed COVID-19 shot finally win over religious vaccine skeptics?
That’s the question swirling around a vaccine made by Novavax, a Maryland biotech firm that submitted its request to the US Food and Drug Administration last month for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 shot, also known as NVX-CoV2373.
Although more than a year behind competitors such as Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, which were both cleared for emergency use in late 2020, Novavax’s two-dose vaccine has already been approved for use in other countries such as the UK, and the company hopes to aid global inoculation efforts.
But Novavax may have another unusual selling point: the potential to woo vaccine skeptics who reject other widely available vaccines because of distant links to abortion they say violate their morals and their faith.
“No human fetal-derived cell lines or tissue, including HEK293 cells, are used in the development, manufacture or production of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373,” a Novavax spokesperson told Religion News Service via email.
About 64 percent of the US population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of February 18, with 28 percent having received an additional booster shot, according to The New York Times.
Public health experts say the unvaccinated population is harboring vaccine hesitancy or outright anti-vaccine sentiment, some of it driven by faith. According to a December 2021 survey by Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core, 10 percent of Americans say they believe getting a COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Among their objections is that in developing or testing their vaccines, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson all used cell lines in various ways that trace their origins to aborted fetuses from the 1970s and 1980s. The most commonly used in medical laboratories are known as HEK293 and PER.C6.
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Q: Why do you think informed consent is possible for the CoupFlu vaxxes?
zipper wrote: “And it’s not “can be forced” in the military, it’s WILL be forced, with extremely few exemptions (none for religious reasons, a handful of medical exemptions, even for those with documented doctor recommendations).”
Have you seen the threads recommending certain doctors as willing to write excuses for people they’ve never seen?
As for religious reasons, some here remind me of Gomer Pyle running around yelling citizens arrest. They seem to think that simply asking for a religious exemption should be sufficient regardless of sincerity.
mewzilla wrote: “Q: Why do you think informed consent is possible for the CoupFlu vaxxes?”
Why wouldn’t I? No one has been vaccinated by force. Vaccination is a choice. You may not agree with the options, but they are there. You can easily refuse the vaccinations as long as you don’t mind the consequences.
The NYT inadvertently revealed the scandalous withholding of data by the CDC to protect the narrative -- in their distorted view the withholding of data was justified, to protect the public's acceptance of the jabs. They busted themselves.
If you read accurate news sources you would already have known that.
Yes, for nearly any illness doctors are conducting visits over Zoom, Facetime, etc. For all types of illnesses, especially now during the covid epidemic in which people are discouraged or banned from in-person visits. It's a common protocol. The fact doctors are consulting patients online has no discernible correlation to the validity of medical advice.
As for religious reasons, some here remind me of Gomer Pyle running around yelling citizens arrest. They seem to think that simply asking for a religious exemption should be sufficient regardless of sincerity.
Clearly you stereotype people of faith as being insincere. Who made you G-d, granting you license to judgementally determine someone's "sincerity"?
Clearly "informed consent" is a foreign concept to those who wish to expose us to experimental gene therapies at the bequest of the dishonest pharmaceuticals, backed by misguided and often corrupt unelected bureaucrats and slipshod "science".
For those without principles, the Faustian nature of the deal is invisible.
mewzilla wrote: “Clearly you stereotype people of faith as being insincere. Who made you G-d, granting you license to judgementally determine someone’s “sincerity”?”
I’m not stereotyping people of faith as I am those who will lie in order to avoid vaccinations. Religious exemptions have become just a loophole for some. I would think that most would condemn such false religion.
Yeah, I’m sure only the best ingredients would go in a stab especially designed for pro-life Christian skeptics!
zipper wrote: “Clearly “informed consent” is a foreign concept to those who wish to expose us to experimental gene therapies at the bequest of the dishonest pharmaceuticals, backed by misguided and often corrupt unelected bureaucrats and slipshod “science”.”
Clearly, if you had principles, you wouldn’t make such outlandish and incorrect claims.
clearly if you had principles you wouldn’t be a drug pusher...
“This vaccine is the first without links to fetal-derived cell lines.”
So they say. Like we’re going to believe them NOW.
It still isn’t a vaccine.
It still hasn’t been properly tested.
heavy metal wrote: “clearly if you had principles you wouldn’t be a drug pusher...”
I’m a drug pusher because I insist upon accurate information? I’m a drug pusher because I want people to protect themselves by taking the effective and safe vaccinations?
worry about yourself and you’ll have plenty to worry about...
you’re a drug pusher...
“My body, my choice.”
Turning the left’s mantras to counter them is a good thing.
One of the signs being held up the first day of the truckers convoy did the same thing: “Don’t hate me because I’m unvaxxed. I WAS BORN THIS WAY”. I thought that was clever, using “I was born this way” the way the homosexuals do.
“it isn’t because they’ve been praying for us.”
👍
“How many additional deaths are you willing to sacrifice while waiting on those long term studies?”
First, “deaths” aren’t being sacrificed. LIVES are being sacrificed. That’s at the alter of the gods Pfizer, Moderna, Fauci, etc., and their bank accounts.
Past protocol for generations has resulted in pulling a new drug showing approximately 10 negative events, including death. The clot shots have thousands of dreadful occurrences, yet the revenue-generating snake oil not only remains, but also continues to be pushed.
“They seem to think that simply asking for a religious exemption should be sufficient regardless of sincerity.”
There should be no opt-out reason for religious exemption. There should be no opt-out reason except: I’M A FREE PERSON AND I F**KING DON’T WANT IT! “
“You can easily refuse the vaccinations as long as you don’t mind the consequences.”
OMG. Pathetic. On many levels.
MayflowerMadam wrote: “There should be no opt-out reason for religious exemption. There should be no opt-out reason except: I’M A FREE PERSON AND I F**KING DON’T WANT IT! “”
I agree but you should be ready to pay the price for your personal preferences.
MayflowerMadam wrote: “First, “deaths” aren’t being sacrificed. LIVES are being sacrificed. That’s at the alter of the gods Pfizer, Moderna, Fauci, etc., and their bank accounts.”
And, you would sacrifice lives to satisfy your personal prejudices against vaccination.
MayflowerMadam wrote: “Past protocol for generations has resulted in pulling a new drug showing approximately 10 negative events, including death. The clot shots have thousands of dreadful occurrences, yet the revenue-generating snake oil not only remains, but also continues to be pushed”
Show me those protocols. In writing please and not from some anti-vaxxer website.
“you should be ready to pay the price for your personal preferences.”
I did that. My personal preference was to NOT be needle raped. I paid the price by getting WuFlu and having natural immunity. Not a bad deal.
“...you would sacrifice lives to satisfy your personal prejudices against vaccination.”
YOU would sacrifice lives to satisfy YOUR personal prejudices FOR vaccination. How are YOUR “personal prejudices” more valid than MY personal (well-informed, carefully considered) prejudices? Anyhow, not my job to live my life “for the greater good”, the socialists’ mantra. My job is to take care of me and mine. You and your fellow commies should do the same and stay out of my business.
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