DanM wrote:
Natural immunity to COVID is as good as or better than the vaccine
Universal medical recommendations like what the CDC is recommending for the COVID vaccine with very little supporting evidence have the potential to harm patients and decrease trust in public health.
I would like to express my concern over a significant lack of informed consent for individuals receiving the new 2023/24 COVID vaccine against one strain (monovalent) called XBB.1.5, authorized for emergency use. For the new vaccine, Pfizer has only shown antibody production in 10 mice. Moderna tested its vaccine in 50 people with one serious adverse reaction but Moderna didn’t disclose the reaction.
The Moderna patients were only followed for two weeks. I’m also concerned that the COVID emergency for which this vaccine was authorized, has long since ended. The current strain for the vaccine, XBB.1.5, has already been spreading in the United States since the fall of 2022, according to the World Health Organization. How many people may already have natural immunity? At this point in the history of COVID, Pfizer and Moderna should have to provide randomized control trials (RCT) data that show a benefit for this universal recommendation. Unfortunately, Pfizer and Moderna haven’t done this and the CDC and FDA haven’t requested it.
Did you know that previous COVID vaccines have shown that the antibodies produced only last about two months? Patients should know that many other developed countries are only recommending this vaccine for those 65 and above. Patients also need to know that there have been no studies in pregnant or lactating women. In fact, Pfizer stopped their RCT in pregnant females in 2021 after five months without explanation. Why? Parents need to know the extremely low risk of severe disease and death in healthy children and the fact that the vaccine doesn’t reduce transmission to others. Parents also need to know the Moderna vaccine is not given in other countries to people less than 30 years old because of the increased risk of myocarditis.
That doc died of COVID, Dan
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