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Anonymous wrote:There is a large increase in wastewater for the entire US including VA a large increase in hospitalizations and an increase in deaths from covid right now. This is the second largest wave since 2020. "You need the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine to be better protected against JN.1. A new study this week from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and Pfizer shows that prior vaccinations do nothing to protect you against hospitalization with JN.1; only the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine does." This is an updated vaccine and NOT called a booster. It's an entire new shot.


https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-and-more-123023


CDC COVID Wasterwater results broken down by local watershed locations. Much easier to read in this format:
https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirusVA/commen...a_as_of_dec_29_2023/

The first set of citations are not from neutral sources:
1) The substack author is affiliated with a non-profit centered on "providing solutions for the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of the novel coronavirus". She is not a disinterested party. https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ruth-crysta...ab=cap-profiles-home https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/202003...-COVID-19-Task-Force
2) The booster study was done by Pfizer and Kaiser and funded by Pfizer. Kaiser works closely with the CDC on covid policy and its Vaccine Study Center director presents at CDC ACIP covid meetings. https://divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.o...accine-study-center/

Covid hospitalizations and deaths remain at their lowest winter levels since covid emerged despite minimal uptake of the new booster.

Thank you for pointing this out. There are many who have a vested interest in keeping the covid hysteria going.

Add in Pfizer's interest in pushing testing. While they don't manufacture tests, they do have a stake in increased testing so they can try to offset slumping sales of Paxlovid.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-swings-quarterly-loss-due-paxlovid-write-off-2023-10-31/

Who? Who are these mythical beings who just love the drama. Oh, wait...

Unless you're implying everyone here asking folx to vax and mask is a pfizer shill, you're the one who seems invested in the drama. If you see covid precautions as "hysteria", log off and go suck air indoors for a bit. Unmasked. For science.

So breathe while indoors? Surely you jest. I never breathe when I am inside.

Do you sleep and eat in a mask in your own home? Because if you ever take your mask off anywhere, include your own home, YOU ARE SUCKING AIR INDOORS.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a large increase in wastewater for the entire US including VA a large increase in hospitalizations and an increase in deaths from covid right now. This is the second largest wave since 2020. "You need the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine to be better protected against JN.1. A new study this week from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and Pfizer shows that prior vaccinations do nothing to protect you against hospitalization with JN.1; only the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine does." This is an updated vaccine and NOT called a booster. It's an entire new shot.


https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-and-more-123023


CDC COVID Wasterwater results broken down by local watershed locations. Much easier to read in this format:
https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirusVA/commen...a_as_of_dec_29_2023/

The first set of citations are not from neutral sources:
1) The substack author is affiliated with a non-profit centered on "providing solutions for the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of the novel coronavirus". She is not a disinterested party. https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ruth-crysta...ab=cap-profiles-home https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/202003...-COVID-19-Task-Force
2) The booster study was done by Pfizer and Kaiser and funded by Pfizer. Kaiser works closely with the CDC on covid policy and its Vaccine Study Center director presents at CDC ACIP covid meetings. https://divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.o...accine-study-center/

Covid hospitalizations and deaths remain at their lowest winter levels since covid emerged despite minimal uptake of the new booster.

Thank you for pointing this out. There are many who have a vested interest in keeping the covid hysteria going.

Add in Pfizer's interest in pushing testing. While they don't manufacture tests, they do have a stake in increased testing so they can try to offset slumping sales of Paxlovid.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-swings-quarterly-loss-due-paxlovid-write-off-2023-10-31/

Who? Who are these mythical beings who just love the drama. Oh, wait...

Unless you're implying everyone here asking folx to vax and mask is a pfizer shill, you're the one who seems invested in the drama. If you see covid precautions as "hysteria", log off and go suck air indoors for a bit. Unmasked. For science.

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Anonymous wrote:All the good traditional vaccines keep you from getting or spreading the disease and don’t turn your cells into spike protein factories. This is a crappy shot

Get Novavax, then.

Anonymous wrote:I had COVID at the start of October so it's coming up on 3 months next week. At that point, I can get the booster right?

The main thing about the COVID boosters is that they do make me sick the next day (and my arm is sore for a full week) so to get one almost requires me to build my schedule around it.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a large increase in wastewater for the entire US including VA a large increase in hospitalizations and an increase in deaths from covid right now. This is the second largest wave since 2020. "You need the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine to be better protected against JN.1. A new study this week from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and Pfizer shows that prior vaccinations do nothing to protect you against hospitalization with JN.1; only the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine does." This is an updated vaccine and NOT called a booster. It's an entire new shot.


https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-and-more-123023


CDC COVID Wasterwater results broken down by local watershed locations. Much easier to read in this format:
https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirusVA/commen...a_as_of_dec_29_2023/

The first set of citations are not from neutral sources:
1) The substack author is affiliated with a non-profit centered on "providing solutions for the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of the novel coronavirus". She is not a disinterested party. https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ruth-crysta...ab=cap-profiles-home https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/202003...-COVID-19-Task-Force
2) The booster study was done by Pfizer and Kaiser and funded by Pfizer. Kaiser works closely with the CDC on covid policy and its Vaccine Study Center director presents at CDC ACIP covid meetings. https://divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.o...accine-study-center/

Covid hospitalizations and deaths remain at their lowest winter levels since covid emerged despite minimal uptake of the new booster.

Thank you for pointing this out. There are many who have a vested interest in keeping the covid hysteria going.

Add in Pfizer's interest in pushing testing. While they don't manufacture tests, they do have a stake in increased testing so they can try to offset slumping sales of Paxlovid.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-swings-quarterly-loss-due-paxlovid-write-off-2023-10-31/

Who? Who are these mythical beings who just love the drama. Oh, wait...

Unless you're implying everyone here asking folx to vax and mask is a pfizer shill, you're the one who seems invested in the drama. If you see covid precautions as "hysteria", log off and go suck air indoors for a bit. Unmasked. For science.

the people who think “go suck air indoors” is an insult… just wow.

+1 Lol, right? We have been sucking air indoors, in crowded cities, on planes, unmasked for years now. We’re fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Peoples value to vaccinate has contributed to the reason why we are in the second worst Covid wave ever per the CDC. Check out CNN’s website.

* peoples’ failure to vaccinate…

The booster does not stop transmission.

It’s not a booster. It’s a new vaccine. And yes it does to some degree.

No, it doesn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Peoples value to vaccinate has contributed to the reason why we are in the second worst Covid wave ever per the CDC. Check out CNN’s website.

* peoples’ failure to vaccinate…

The booster does not stop transmission.

It’s not a booster. It’s a new vaccine. And yes it does to some degree.

Anonymous wrote:All the good traditional vaccines keep you from getting or spreading the disease and don’t turn your cells into spike protein factories. This is a crappy shot

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peoples value to vaccinate has contributed to the reason why we are in the second worst Covid wave ever per the CDC. Check out CNN’s website.

* peoples’ failure to vaccinate…

The booster does not stop transmission.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting seeing all the new "I've got covid" posts popping up now. I wonder how many peeps secretly with they'd vaxxed.

Again, for the millionth time, the vaccines don’t prevent transmission.

That's not entirely true. While the vaccines do not and have never claimed to provide sterilizing immunity, there are studies that have shown a reduction in infection (and transmission), particularly in the weeks following vaccine administration. Here is one example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02138-x

The CDC acknowledges that the vaccine's protection against infection tends to be "modest and sometimes short-lived."

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/5-things-you-should-know.html#:~:text=COVID%2D19%20vaccines%20provide%20sustained,at%20protecting%20against%20severe%20illness.

These comments are about the historical covid vaccines, not the new booster. Which is why the CDC only cites reduction in disease severity as the reason to get the new booster and makes no mention of protection again infection or transmission in its Up-to-Date page. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

Fair enough. However, there have been multiple statements throughout this thread that vaccines generally do nothing to prevent transmission (not limited to the new vaccine).

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting seeing all the new "I've got covid" posts popping up now. I wonder how many peeps secretly with they'd vaxxed.

Again, for the millionth time, the vaccines don’t prevent transmission.

That's not entirely true. While the vaccines do not and have never claimed to provide sterilizing immunity, there are studies that have shown a reduction in infection (and transmission), particularly in the weeks following vaccine administration. Here is one example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02138-x

The CDC acknowledges that the vaccine's protection against infection tends to be "modest and sometimes short-lived."

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/5-things-you-should-know.html#:~:text=COVID%2D19%20vaccines%20provide%20sustained,at%20protecting%20against%20severe%20illness.

These comments are about the historical covid vaccines, not the new booster. Which is why the CDC only cites reduction in disease severity as the reason to get the new booster and makes no mention of protection again infection or transmission in its Up-to-Date page. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a large increase in wastewater for the entire US including VA a large increase in hospitalizations and an increase in deaths from covid right now. This is the second largest wave since 2020. "You need the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine to be better protected against JN.1. A new study this week from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and Pfizer shows that prior vaccinations do nothing to protect you against hospitalization with JN.1; only the updated XBB.1.5 vaccine does." This is an updated vaccine and NOT called a booster. It's an entire new shot.


https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-and-more-123023


CDC COVID Wasterwater results broken down by local watershed locations. Much easier to read in this format:
https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirusVA/commen...a_as_of_dec_29_2023/

The first set of citations are not from neutral sources:
1) The substack author is affiliated with a non-profit centered on "providing solutions for the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of the novel coronavirus". She is not a disinterested party. https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ruth-crysta...ab=cap-profiles-home https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/202003...-COVID-19-Task-Force
2) The booster study was done by Pfizer and Kaiser and funded by Pfizer. Kaiser works closely with the CDC on covid policy and its Vaccine Study Center director presents at CDC ACIP covid meetings. https://divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.o...accine-study-center/

Covid hospitalizations and deaths remain at their lowest winter levels since covid emerged despite minimal uptake of the new booster.

Thank you for pointing this out. There are many who have a vested interest in keeping the covid hysteria going.

Add in Pfizer's interest in pushing testing. While they don't manufacture tests, they do have a stake in increased testing so they can try to offset slumping sales of Paxlovid.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-swings-quarterly-loss-due-paxlovid-write-off-2023-10-31/

Who? Who are these mythical beings who just love the drama. Oh, wait...

Unless you're implying everyone here asking folx to vax and mask is a pfizer shill, you're the one who seems invested in the drama. If you see covid precautions as "hysteria", log off and go suck air indoors for a bit. Unmasked. For science.

the people who think “go suck air indoors” is an insult… just wow.