FDA rejects plan to administer Covid boosters to the general public

wait a second wrote:

They’re afraid of losing their jobs if they report it. Yeah it’s a hospital

Sure, Boris. We all believe your story.

wait a second wrote:

So have they isolated “COVID” yet?

One of MANY papers with microscope images of SARS-CoV-2

If you truly believe viruses don't exist.... you are beyond help.

applied science wrote:

I am hearing a good number of L.P.N.s, R.N.s and radiology techs are not drinking the Kool-Aid, so to speak. Email C.D.C. and tell your co-workers to email C.D.C. Create a record. It is one thing for public officials to spin and tell half truths. Deleting emails is a felony. Email C.D.C.

So the less-educated medical professions are more antivaxx?

Just like the rest of the population. Big surprise.

Weekly boosters coming. That’s white privilege.

stan the corgi wrote:

Thank goodness. I thought the FDA and CDC were owned by pharma. I'm glad some objectivity prevailed today.

No, that’s just conservatives that are owned by big pharma.

Only reason mRNA boosters would be practical is if you feel a given population's immune response degrades heavily after a while or is otherwise poor, and you want to give them some spike proteins to wake it up again. That makes sense with 65+ and other immuno-vulnerable populations.

Otherwise, an mRNA booster is pointless. Your immune system once it develops a response after the initial 2 shots already knows how to fight the spike protein. You don't need to get a booster and make more proteins. It's redundant.

Wise Old Man wrote:

Harambe wrote:

https://twitter.com/megtirrell/status/1438965256441761792?s=20

This makes sense. Where you want to keep sterilizing immunity high as breakthrough cases have the potential to get severe.

I’m a professor of medicine at a US medical school and have spent the last 1.5 years taking care of covid patients. The FDA got this right. Nearly all the breakthrough covid in those vaccinated occurs in the elderly or those who are immune compromised. 85-90% of those in the ICU with covid are unvaccinated and the rest fall into one of these groups. After a booster these groups are far more protected, but for how long is unknown. Moderna is likely better and more durable for delta than Pfizer, so a Moderna booster is a bit more of a stretch, but probably will be a yes for high risk groups too.

There are plenty of breakthrough cases in those under 65. What there are not a lot of is breakthrough cases resulting in death for those under 65. Break through cases in those under 65 offer far better protection going forward than boosters as the reinfection rate is about one tenth the break through infection rate because the vaccines do not have all the proteins that the delta variant has (just the spike.protein).

stan the corgi wrote:

Thank goodness. I thought the FDA and CDC were owned by pharma. I'm glad some objectivity prevailed today.

Yes this is a good sign indeed. Apparently not everyone can be paid off and influenced by big pharmas power pull/money. At least for now. Maybe this is all part of their dog and pony show plan though. They don't want to be too predictable amd obvious. Deception is their game.

Harambe wrote:

So the less-educated medical professions are more antivaxx?

Just like the rest of the population. Big surprise.

Yeah seriously. This is a broad brush I admit, but the majority of the (many) nurses I've met aren't among the best and brightest.