Some discouraging tidbits at the end of this article:
Murphy said that because the U.S. government purchased all of Pfizer’s doses, it technically owns them. Patients trying to get third doses or doctors giving boosters by tricking the system could be committing fraud.
“If the vaccine is technically owned by the U.S. government, then that’s fraud,” he said. “You’re defrauding the government. But if Pfizer sells to private offices, then there’s nothing they can do.”
If that’s correct and continues to be the case, then it doesn’t really matter whether kids can legally get the shot–the government still controls access through its own distribution policy, which will presumably continue to deny vaccination to kids even if their pediatrician prescribes it.
Natural breakthrough with severe illness/death is something like 1% x 1%. Let’s give a range of 1:10,000 to 1:100,000.
A booster is 1:1,000,000 or less.
I’m going to ride with the booster(s) as a 56 year old with a wife that has asthma.
That said if you are someone that is very confident in a having a good immune system and no underlying risk factors I don’t think it’s insane as long as the plan is to
A deliberately expose yourself
B quarantine until sure not contagious
Sure it is. Typically vaccines produce a larger response for most viruses and there have been a few COVID studies that have seen this effect. I wish the BBC elaborated on this because I feel like I’m missing something.
Office of National Statistics figures show more than nine in 10 adults in the UK now have antibodies to coronavirus, either through vaccination or having been infected with the virus.
Prof Hunter said: "I’m very confident that we’re not going to see anything like the amount of disease we saw last time round [in the autumn].
“But it doesn’t mean that if we went back to living how we did two years ago that we won’t see cases increasing.”
However, while the UK as a whole could be approaching equilibrium, not everywhere will get there at the same time.
Huh? The JnJ vaccine is DNA-based. Oh, BBC whiffed on the headline, as the company claims first “plasmid” DNA vaccine, so the DNA is in a circle rather than a linear piece. It looks like it’s also the first that can be administered via a jet injector rather than a regular needle.
Either way, good news to have more manufacturers of effective vaccines.
It sucks that this kind of duplicated effort is needed, but as long as the US continues to be a dickhole about sharing IP, I guess nations like India and Cuba are going to need their own vaccine development programs.
But it’s an obviously stupid article. The name of the game is to not get and spread a disease that kills people, even people who have already been vaccinated. Deliberately giving people a deadly disease is not winning the game! It is the opposite of that.
It still seems like we might not know. And perhaps it depends on one’s situation. And booster strategies in general should vary too. I think this is topic we should all be more invested in as this is where we’re all at.