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2021-09-17 at 7:33 PM UTCMaking me
Awfully
Glad that I got
A Moderna shot (the same as Fauci)
POLITICO
CDC study finds Moderna vaccine is best at preventing Covid-19 hospitalization
By Erin Banco
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is the most effective at protecting against Covid-19 hospitalizations, according to a study published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Moderna vaccine also produced higher post-vaccination antibody levels than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the study found.
An analysis of more than 3,600 adults hospitalized at 21 U.S. facilities from March to August found that vaccine efficacy against hospitalization was 93 percent for the Moderna vaccine compared to 88 percent for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
The effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine declined significantly after 120 days, the CDC’s report said, although it still provided strong protection against severe disease.
The Moderna vaccine also produced higher post-vaccination antibody levels than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the study found.
The study excluded immunocompromised people.
The CDC has released several studies looking at vaccine efficacy in particular groups, such as frontline health care workers, as the administration prepares to roll out boosters to at least some adults in the coming weeks. While some of those studies have included data on efficacy of the various vaccines, the study published Friday offers greater insight into the extent to which Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson protect against severe disease and Covid-19 hospitalization.
The data from the recent CDC cohort study suggests that the two-dose Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine regimens protect better against hospitalization than the single-dose Johnson & Johnson shot. However, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine still reduced risk of Covid-19-related hospitalization by 71 percent.
Although the efficacy of the vaccines varied, the CDC study showed that all of the FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccines still work well at protecting against Covid-19 hospitalization. -
2021-09-17 at 7:50 PM UTC"I've got my own passport. It's called the 'Bill of Rights,'" the Weasel wants on his tombstone.
INSIDER
An Alabama couple who trashed vaccines on their YouTube channel died from COVID-19 within three weeks of each other
kniemeyer@insider.com (Kenneth Niemeyer)
An Alabama couple who opposed COVID-19 vaccines on YouTube died from the disease, AL.com reported.
In a recent video, Dusty and Tristan Graham said the vaccine was "technically not" a vaccine.
The couple's channel had 10,000 subscribers before it was removed from YouTube, Social Blade said.
An Alabama couple who posted videos opposing the COVID-19 vaccine on their YouTube channel, "Alabama Pickers," died from the disease just three weeks apart from each other, AL.com reported.
Dusty and Tristan Graham, of Huntsville, Alabama, ran a YouTube page together where they would post videos showing them travel around the state to find vintage items, the report said. They would then sell the items on eBay under the name bama4348.
The couple's YouTube channel appears to have been taken down, but one of their last videos was reposted to the channel "Vaxx Mann." The channel belongs to the website sorryantivaxxer.com, a site dedicated to resharing social-media posts from people who publicly opposed the COVID vaccine and subsequently died from the disease.
"I've got my own passport. It's called the 'Bill of Rights,'" Dusty Graham said in the video.
In the video, Dusty Graham said the COVID-19 vaccine was "technically not" a vaccine and called it an "immunity therapy."
"I don't know guys. Here's the deal: It's been a year. I haven't had it yet," Dusty Graham said, before the couple lists a series of other illnesses they have recovered from, including that Tristan Graham was a survivor of childhood bone cancer.
The couple's channel had about 10,600 subscribers before it was removed, Social Blade said.
Tristan Graham died on August 25 in her sleep, AL.com reported. Then the couple's daughter, Windsor, wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post that her father was being moved to a ventilator last week.
"I want to thank everybody that reached out to check on my brother and I," she wrote, as quoted by AL.com. "For now, it's just waiting and praying his body relaxes."
Dusty Graham died on Thursday, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help the couple.
Dusty Graham started the GoFundMe page from the ICU two days after his wife's death, AL.com reported. The page has raised around $23,000 to help the couple's two children cover medical and funeral costs. -
2021-09-18 at 1:17 AM UTC"Everything your government has told you about this virus is a lie. None of it is supported by science."
"I think we are standing at the very gates of Hell."
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2021-09-18 at 1:49 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 An analysis of more than 3,600 adults hospitalized at 21 U.S. facilities from March to August found that vaccine efficacy against hospitalization was 93 percent for the Moderna vaccine compared to 88 percent for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
in another words, 3600 people who were vaxxinated were hospitalized,
2- doesnt make sense how did they came to the conclusion since they did not give the total numbers of vaxxinated individuals. -
2021-09-18 at 11:56 AM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny in another words, 3600 people who were vaxxinated were hospitalized,
2- doesnt make sense how did they came to the conclusion since they did not give the total numbers of vaxxinated individuals.
They think you're too stupid to realize the contradictions they're serving. -
2021-09-18 at 12:44 PM UTCI heard they just banned the unvaxxed from hospitals and there is nothing to worry about
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2021-09-18 at 2:09 PM UTC100% proof they are culling society...
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2021-09-18 at 2:27 PM UTCPeople dying is a good thing
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2021-09-18 at 2:28 PM UTCif they all die who would pay for your jobless insurance.
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2021-09-18 at 2:29 PM UTCAssociated Press
Top doctors say not so fast to Biden's boosters-for-all plan
By ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just one month ago, President Joe Biden and his health advisers announced big plans to soon deliver a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine to all Americans. But after campaigning for the White House on a pledge to “follow the science,” Biden found himself uncharacteristically ahead of it with that lofty pronouncement.
Some of nation's top medical advisers on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke of the idea, in essence telling the White House: not so fast.
A key government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected Biden's plan to give COVID-19 booster shots across the board and instead recommended the extra vaccine dose only for those who are age 65 or older or who run a high risk of severe disease.
Biden’s Aug. 18 announcement that the federal government was preparing to shore up nearly all Americans’ protection had been made with great fanfare. It was meant to calm the nerves of millions of Americans fearful of a new, more transmissible strain of the coronavirus.
“The plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot,” Biden said, noting that his administration would be ready to begin the program on Sept. 20.
Biden added the qualification that third doses would require the signoff of health officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but his public message glossed over the nuance.
“Just remember,” he said, “as a simple rule: Eight months after your second shot, get a booster shot.”
Biden’s plan drew immediate outrage from global health groups that encouraged the United States and other well-off nations to refrain from administering boosters until poorer countries could provide first doses to their most vulnerable citizens.
“Viewed from a global perspective, this is a squandering of a scarce global resource, as a consequence of which people will die,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “I feel completely comfortable saying this,” he added, acknowledging that domestic political considerations weigh differently on presidents.
The Biden plan was criticized, too, by medical professionals, who cited a lack of safety data on extra doses and raised doubts about the value of mass boosters, rather than ones targeted to specific groups.
“It created enormous pressure on the agency to go along with what the White House wanted,” said Lurie, who characterized the FDA panel’s decision as a “rebuke” of Biden’s efforts to circumvent standard procedures. “That’s what we’re trying to get beyond after the Trump era.”
“Following them has served FDA very well when they’ve done that,” he added. He contrasted the expeditious authorization of the vaccines to the agency's brief flirtation with unproven COVID-19 treatments such as the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine during the Trump administration. “When they’ve strayed from it, they’ve got in trouble.”
The nonbinding recommendation from the outside experts who advise the FDA is not the last word. The FDA will consider the group’s advice and make its own decision, probably within days. The CDC is set to weigh in next week.
One of the FDA’s advisers, Dr. Paul Offit of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told reporters after the meeting that while the Biden administration had planned for boosters for the general population, “that’s not this. This is, ‘We’re going to test the water one foot at a time.'’'
The committee “parked all of that stuff and did their job,” said Norman Baylor, former director of the FDA’s office of vaccine review. “I’ll be very frank here: I think this meeting was rushed. I would say it should have happened later,” so that the FDA had more data to make the decision.
White House allies defended the administration’s aggressive preparation for the boosters, which has included regular messaging from doctors about their necessity and bolstering the federal stockpile of doses.
They argue that the American people elect a president, not a scientist, to act in their best interests. They reason that the alternative — holding off on preparing for boosters until federal health officials give the green light — could have cost lives.
The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, told reporters before the panel’s vote that the administration was aiming to be transparent with the public about the promise of boosters providing enduring protection and was not trying to pressure regulators to act. He said the administration also wanted to be prepared in the event the boosters were approved.
“We have always said that this initial plan would be contingent on the FDA and the CDC’s independent evaluation,” Murthy said. “We will follow that evaluation and their recommendations, we will make sure our final plan reflects it.”
“What we were doing in August and we continue to do there is really prioritizing transparency and preparation,” he added.
Administration officials noted that the experts' recommendation Friday probably would result in boosters for people most likely to get them anyway had the entire population been give the go-ahead. Seniors were in the first group of Americans to be eligible for vaccination after their authorization last December, followed by those with preexisting conditions that put them at higher risk for serious disease. Those populations account for tens of millions of Americans, officials said.
After Friday's voting, the White House tried to put the advisory panel's action in a positive light.
“Today was an important step forward in providing better protection to Americans from COVID-19,” said White House spokesman Kevin Munoz. “We stand ready to provide booster shots to eligible Americans once the process concludes at the end of next week.”
Dr. Leana Wen, a former Baltimore health commissioner who comments regularly on the pandemic, said the decision about boosters "is not just one of science. It’s one of values.”
“Because when we’re considering issues like should additional doses go to Americans or people around the world, that is not the right decision for a scientific regulatory committee,” she said. “That is up to the president of the United States.” -
2021-09-18 at 2:31 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny if they all die who would pay for your jobless insurance.
The market would be more competitive I would just be able to roll over a few dead people and steal their industrial output to add to my ever growing consumer power. Soon I will be consuming entire planets. -
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