Posted on 02/16/2024 12:29:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering whether to recommend yet another Covid booster shot this spring, especially for people most at risk for severe complications of the illness.
A spring booster would be the same vaccine that was approved last fall, which was formulated to target the XBB.1.5 subvariant. The vaccine is also very effective against the JN.1 subvariant, which is causing almost all Covid infections in the U.S. right now.
While it's unlikely that the majority of Americans would opt for another dose — just 21.9% of adults received the latest version of the vaccine — experts say that it's critical to make it available sooner rather than later.
"Waiting till the fall, I think, is a mistake," said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "We have clear evidence that either vaccine or previous infection probably gives four to six months of relative protection against serious illness, hospitalizations and deaths, but wanes substantially after that."
Earlier this week, the CDC said it had no immediate plans to pull back on isolation guidelines for people who test positive for Covid.
Advisers to the CDC are expected to vote on whether to recommend a spring Covid booster during a meeting scheduled for Feb. 28, according to a source close to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It's expected that the panel will focus its discussion on those most vulnerable to Covid, including people age 65 and older and anyone with a weakened immune system, such as organ transplant recipients.
"The discussion will be aimed at the people who are most accepting of public health recommendations," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. "The committee, in its rigorous fashion since the question has come up, will be considering a second dose for people at high risk or for people who wish to get it."
But even some vulnerable groups who usually adhere closely to their doctors' advice to get vaccinations are experiencing vaccine fatigue, said Dr. William Werbel, associate director of epidemiology and quantitative sciences with the Johns Hopkins Transplant Research Center in Baltimore.
"Some people have had seven, eight vaccines," Werbel said. "Transplant recipients would be more receptive and much more likely to follow recommendations, particularly if recommended by the transplant center, but the ceiling is kind of lowered because of this societal fatigue and societal disenchantment with Covid."
CDC says it has no plans to ease Covid isolation yet, despite urging from doctors He added that he would recommend a spring booster to his patients if the CDC signs off on one.
Experts generally recommend waiting at least two months after a Covid vaccination or Covid infection before getting another shot, even for high-risk patients.
Vaccination rates are higher for people ages 65 and older, at 42%, according to the CDC. Research shows that people who got the latest booster shot were 54% less likely to be infected with Covid this winter. That level of protection held against the strain found in nearly all circulation of Covid right now: JN.1.
The CDC is not required to follow the advice of its advisory panels, but it usually does.
As of this month, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid are down, according to the latest CDC data.
"We're lucky that the vaccines are safe," Werbel said, "certainly much safer than getting Covid."
A Johns Hopkins doc for the money shot:
“We’re lucky that the vaccines are safe,” Werbel said, “certainly much safer than getting Covid.”
The CDC can recommend whatever it wants but I’m not having any of it.
FTA “”We’re lucky that the vaccines are safe,” Werbel said, “certainly much safer than getting Covid.”
They are mocking us, they literally hate us.
I think EVERY CDC employee from the head on down needs to get the ENTIRE series of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shots PLUS all the boosters AGAIN. No excuses or saline injections this time.
IMO, it’s the only way to stop all the lying and political deceit.
So - about 1/5th of folks got the latest jabs and we didn’t have any huge issues - they’re gonna milk it for every penny they can fool folks into spending on it...because it ain’t “free” - my taxes have gone up $2K in the last 2 years...
Can you get a subscription for the jabs? You know like get the tenth one free like a punch card or something
Thanks, but that source perpetuates the myth that “Covid” was a spreading disease that the jabs were able to save some people from.
I hear I May we are being signed over to the UN when it comes to pandemic decisions as well as climate change being a right and a cause for whatever they need it to be. We are in big danger, who will enforce this?
Yes; however, they are still dying . . . . and yet to be added to the jab death toll.
Regards,
You would bring up the T word. . . .Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Right. But perpetuating the idea of a dread, “lab-leaked” virus sets up the fiction for the next such “pandemic”.
Most CDC personnel deserve to be in prison.
They have already developed an aerosolized covid vaccine. LOTS of ways to give that to a person - willing or not.
The vaccines are NOT safe....long term effects include cancer, and damage to the immune system via over-saturation with spike protein, damaginging ingternal organs and causing joint arthritis.
Ivermectin is YOUR FRIEND.
Mke no mistake about it.
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They are not vaccines, but I agree, they are not safe.
Ivermectin is one of our cheap, miracle meds. But if you are suggesting it be used for the Covid fiction, then you are feeding into the narrative they want to inflict another plandemic fraud on us.
I am beginning to wonder if government employees were given the water shot instead of the killer vacccine. It would be interesting to see the data on vaccine injuries that segregated govt. employees from the rest of the population.
A few weeks after they got it…. There was a lot of flu and Covid positivity. I have been in the lab many years… a few weeks after the annual flu shot I see flu positivity.
Very few lab folks will dare mention it. CMS reimbursement is tied to every hospital’, clinic, medical facility complying with their flu mandate. About.03% of healthcare workers are not vaccinated against the flu.
I had experiential evidence of vaccine shedding before I even knew it was a thing. #VaccineTyranny
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