Which is why nobody is actually pushing the currently available boosters right now. Biden admin didn’t approve them widely because they know they aren’t effective against this strain and are hoping the new ones later this fall will be. |
People who have had 4 shots tend to be older and have more health problems than people who choose to forgo the second booster. |
Precisely! Keep going, you are almost there! So therefore, there are people who are fundamentally at-risk and those not at-risk for higher Covid severity and yet this basic fact was downplayed and often completely ignored. The masks, lockdowns, school closures, vax pass, mandates, etc. were sold as a Covid panacea for all as if everyone has the same risk level for a severe outcome and needed to endure these draconian experimental polices. This is malfeasance. |
When? This was true pre-Omicron. I know someone who was vaccinated and boosted twice who was recently hospitalized with this latest strain. The vaccines and boosters worked against the OG and delta strains. They are worthless now. |
By fall, will these even be effective? I’m not rushing out to boost my family. We’ve all had omicron and it wasn’t bad at all. I don’t think boosters are needed for the young and healthy. And I’ve lost trust in the FDA so I’m not convinced these new boosters will be better than what we have now, especially as Covid continues to mutate. |
Wtf. Yes, omicron is killing people. |
First of all, omicron is killing people. Second of all, no one under fifty is allowed to get a fourth shot unless they are immunocompromised! Not only is no one pushing young healthy adults to get a fourth shot, they aren’t allowed to! I’m diabetic and asthmatic and forty eight and can’t get a fourth shot. So much misinformation |
Wow—you “knew someone”! So impressed! https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00462-7/fulltext |
“Booster vaccination with an mRNA vaccine was highly protective against hospitalisation and death in omicron cases (HR for hospital admission 8–11 weeks post-booster vs unvaccinated: 0·22 [0·20–0·24]), with the protection afforded after a booster not being affected by the vaccine used for doses 1 and 2.” |
No, doesn’t make me think. Just about everything you wrote is incorrect. |
Another article: “Efficacy against variants of concern — Several SARS-CoV-2 variants that are concerning for their potential for immune escape have emerged over the course of the pandemic (table 6). For the Omicron variant and its sublineages (BA.1, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5), COVID-19 vaccines remain effective in preventing severe disease, but effectiveness in preventing symptomatic infection is attenuated.” https://www.uptodate.com/contents/covid-19-vaccines#H1892303479 |
I’m happy for you if you and your household members have no health issues, but the reality is around half of American adults have one of the underlying conditions that make severe COVID more likely. Since most people don’t live alone in a bubble, that means the vast majority of households have at least one person who is obese, has a heart problem, is severely asthmatic, etc. |
Time to hault all vaccines and boosters until there is proof it will work on the current strain. It's just a cash grab at this point. |
Totally agree. What's most disappointing to me is Americans are championing these vaccines...that do not work! We should not accept the narrative that the Covid vaccine prevents hospitalization. No one would accept the idea that the polio vaccine only prevents partial paralysis. Why, as a nation, are we not pushing for a better vaccine. One that works and doesn't require a 'booster (that doesn't work)' every 5 months. |
| Friends, THEY DID WORK. But many of us got vaccinated for the first time 18 months ago and the virus has mutated a lot in that time. Please stop screaming they don’t work. All that does is dissuade people from getting a newly formulated vaccine that can target the omicron strains better once they’re available. |