Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
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Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#2Hahahahaha have fun vaxtards.
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#3Assuming it's only as effective as the original two-dose shot and prevents for the same duration, it seems like COVID will never go away. Assuming the current trend and a 9 month prevention, that pretty much aligns to what happened last year. So we'd need no new significant variants to develop or any outbreaks. Seems unlikely given that there are many countries with vaccination rates under 50%
Probably better to focus on the minimum number of vaccinations necessary to make hospitalization/death unlikely and move on from there. Preventing infection might be too high a bar to meet now.
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#4Assuming it's only as effective as the original two-dose shot and prevents for the same duration, it seems like COVID will never go away. Assuming the current trend and a 9 month prevention, that pretty much aligns to what happened last year. So we'd need no new significant variants to develop or any outbreaks. Seems unlikely given that there are many countries with vaccination rates under 50% Probably better to focu…
That's ok your iPhone will ensure you've had the requisite boosters before allowing you access to public spaces.
Everyone can sleep easy!
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#5Assuming it's only as effective as the original two-dose shot and prevents for the same duration, it seems like COVID will never go away. Assuming the current trend and a 9 month prevention, that pretty much aligns to what happened last year. So we'd need no new significant variants to develop or any outbreaks. Seems unlikely given that there are many countries with vaccination rates under 50% Probably better to focu…
[edit] this is in response to the earlier version of your post where you wonder if the virus will ever go away:
That I think is a given. Even if we had a bullet proof vaccine, you have such a large reserve of unvaccinated people across the world, plus animals, that the virus is endemic at this stage.
Which isn't a problem. If once vaccinated the virus is mostly harmless, then it is just one more of the many endemic diseases we live with without worrying about.
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#6It's like Linux on the desktop and fusion reactors. It seems like we are always one jab away from being safe and overcoming covid.
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#7Assuming it's only as effective as the original two-dose shot and prevents for the same duration, it seems like COVID will never go away. Assuming the current trend and a 9 month prevention, that pretty much aligns to what happened last year. So we'd need no new significant variants to develop or any outbreaks. Seems unlikely given that there are many countries with vaccination rates under 50% Probably better to focu…
Is there any reason not to increase vaccine production rates so we have the capacity to vaccinate the world population faster than every 9 months?
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#8I am fascinated to know what the effects are of over-vaccination. Is there some spillover effects where a highly-primed immune system begins to get into weird autoimmune reactions? Do weird plaques develop or a build-up of antibodies begin to form in random parts of the body, like in a blood dyscrasia? Or does nothing happen?
Chronic vaccine overdoses are so exotic, as access to vaccines had been historically so tightly controlled, and it’s unlikely that someone would routinely subject themselves to daily/weekly IM injections.
Edit: After seeing a few responses, I meant to say that my curiosity is for vaccine doses way over and above what might be comparable to current practices with annual vaccinations.
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#9It's like Linux on the desktop and fusion reactors. It seems like we are always one jab away from being safe and overcoming covid.
At this point we need to acknowledge that there will be no "overcoming" it and it will be endemic, like the flu.
Re: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
#10> Probably better to focus on the minimum number of vaccinations necessary to make hospitalization/death unlikely and move on from there.
It would be nice if we could meet even that bar, but the US is currently at 53% of the population vaccinated, and much of its medical system is collapsing.
Which is fine for that 53%, until they have a heart attack, get in a car accident, cancer, are immuno-compromised, etc, etc.
Given how virulent COVID is, the minimum number from keeping outbreaks from overwhelming ICUs, seems to be close to "80% of the population, and a booster shot every 6 months."