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Has anyone seen research around mix and match? As in which is better, stay with the original or get a different booster? Especially mRNA followed by J&J, and J&J followed by mRNA? Additionally, is there any benefit to Pfizer followed by Moderna and vice versa.
I have a few relatives in the medical field (all vaxxed and boosted) that have explained the booster shot is just more of the same stuff - they haven't had time to make a new recipe.. so isn't this just the same study all over again? i.e 2 shots had high protection in the beginning and waned over time. Can we expect the same from the booster shot?
From reading around (not a biologist), I get the impression that there's some kind of super-linear immunity building, not just waning protection. Standard children's vaccines often have a few doses, and not evenly spaced. Soo... you're building up better immunity against the "baseline" virus with each dose. That immunity translates to some (reduced) immunity to the variants. But if the "baseline" is high enough, you…
I bet they had leaked this article to Wall st. yesterday and that's why we saw the markets rise sharply.
The moment to have any critique against capitalism there is an invisible vocieless army of downvoters to suppress any chance for reality to invade the bubble of libertarianism on here. I get it, this is hosted on a capitalist funding platform, just do not pretend this is a refuge for inquiring thought.
You really think this does not happen, that people on Wall Street do not get inside information before the rest of you suckers get it?
If I'm reading this correctly, this is "protection against severe disease" and has little to do with transmission. The National Airport Data from Israel seems to suggest "the absolute number of infected individuals in the Vaccinated (boosted) group is likely to be at least as high as in the Unvaccinated" [0] So it seems to me that as long as we all remain obsessed with case numbers and not actual hospitalizations and…
Maybe, maybe not. It is clear, even to someone with zero background in vaccines, that the COVID vaccines are no resulting in sterilizing immunity. Everyone said as much since the first trials. What does this mean? IMHO it means that once we reached sufficient levels of vaccinations (no idea what that would be, definitely above 70%) COVID will be nothing more than a severe flue / cold for most of the population, if th…
>anti-vaxxers (among a lot of things with them). They don't want the shots because a) COVID is just a flew (and simultaniously a deadly bio weapon the Chinese spread in order to win a global economic war...)
Maybe the problem is that people who are against covid vaccines are being a) slandered as anti-vaxxers and b) lumped in with all sorts of other conspiracists.
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Is there a good reason that they haven't updated their vaccine for Delta, which has been out for much longer than 3 months? Over 99% of cases in the US are Delta now, which the original jab wasn't designed for.
> Delta now, which the original jab wasn't designed for. Current vaccines have still been "highly effective" against Delta, so I think that's why this hasn't been done: there's no point in using the big guns now when the existing weapon works well, and you might really need the big gun soon (and you can't know when). So it's better to keep it in reserve. The question now is, is Omicron "it" ?
If I'm reading this correctly, this is "protection against severe disease" and has little to do with transmission. The National Airport Data from Israel seems to suggest "the absolute number of infected individuals in the Vaccinated (boosted) group is likely to be at least as high as in the Unvaccinated" [0] So it seems to me that as long as we all remain obsessed with case numbers and not actual hospitalizations and…
The reason why people are obsessed with case numbers and not deaths is that case numbers control the case numbers in the insufficiently immunized which predicts death toll 3 weeks ahead of time. Why would you want to control a system with 2-3 weeks of additional lag in your input data when case numbers (a thing that is somewhat easy to measure) correlates so well future deaths? Ideally politician would have some fami…
For example, if you implement a travel rule that every traveler needs to get tested a day before they leave and a day after they arrive, then you’re going to see an increase in cases (both real and false positives).
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This has always been my fear. I'm vaccinated (Moderna) and got COVID in September. I recovered quickly - about 3 days. But I'm worried that my body did not get to have a proper immune response and that as such, I'll have to continue get vaccinated forever whereas if I had just gotten COVID without the vaccine maybe I would be set. But I haven't found _much_ data to back up this concern.
There is little evidence right now that immunity through a natural infection is better than immunity from a vaccine. Given the strains circulating now I don’t think your concern is valid. Vaccines are better and less risky than having your naive immune system deal with covid. Maybe that will change with a future strain (though I’d bet against it), but it isn’t the case now.
Agreed. However, many people are not in that position. For those who have been infected but not vaccinated, they have experienced immune systems and must evaluate information from that starting point.
If I'm reading this correctly, this is "protection against severe disease" and has little to do with transmission. The National Airport Data from Israel seems to suggest "the absolute number of infected individuals in the Vaccinated (boosted) group is likely to be at least as high as in the Unvaccinated" [0] So it seems to me that as long as we all remain obsessed with case numbers and not actual hospitalizations and…
That’s a weird way to phrase your second paragraph, considering hospitals have been close to full very recently in parts of the us. https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization
[0] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200326/us-hospital-beds-we...
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There's the whole t-cell and b-cell stuff that protects from serious disease but it's much harder to test/measure so you don't get these rapid headline grabbing lab studies. T-cells as I understand it are much less likely to be thrown off by spike mutations because they react to whole genome of virus (edit: T-cells from an infection that is).
This is not my area but isn't the point of the mRNA vaccines that that virus' DNA is never introduced into your body? You only end up with a narrow transcribed slice of that DNA targeting a specific protein. I've also never heard of your immune system targetting a genome; how is it generally gaining access to that genome when it is encapsulated? My understanding of the spike targeting is that COVID is only so infecti…