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Today Pfizer released the data from their ongoing study that persuaded them to recommend a third dose.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
OK, me and my family are sold on a booster. I hope Moderna gets on the bandwagon because that’s what me and my mother got, although my brother and sister-in-law got Pfizer.I belong to a pro-mask/pro-vaccine group on Facebook and this is what someone said in response:“I'd like to see someone besides Pfizer recommend this. Pfizer obviously would like people to get boosters so they can sell more vaccines and make more money.”
Yeah, if we need boosters that is not a big deal to me even if we need annual boosters. The time it takes now to get the vaccine is the roundtrip from the parking lot to go in and get a shot that takes 2 seconds with a 15 minute wait at CVS and back out to the car.It's not really a inconvenience from my perspective.
The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body that may protect against the coronavirus for years, scientists reported on Monday.
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As far as I can tell, it's not that the vaccines are "wearing off", it's just that they are less protective against Delta than they were against the previous strains. So as Delta becomes the dominant variant they become less effective. Right now between 20-25% of the positive case in LA County are fully vaccinated people, according to our public heath department. Most of those people have no or very mild symptoms, but they still contracted covid. Delta is just that much more virulent.
For those paying lots of attention to the info: At one point they were saying the Moderna vaccine could last for years. Does the Pfizer data impact that?
Are they thinking Pfizer and Moderna will have similar efficacy long term? I'm really asking because I'm traveling overseas in September and was vaccinated in February, do I need a 3rd shot?
So this reporting on an internal presentation at the CDC is why the CDC reversed the mask recommendation and changed testing policy a couple of days ago. To sum up, delta is much more contagious and leads to more severe illness. Based on the reporting, the CDC publicly is still sugar coating what they know internally. There's a mismatch.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginWhat appears new to the CDC, the rest of the world had already known that for a while. A while back I posted how an overseas immunologist said that delta to a fully vaccinated person is like the original strain to an unvaccinated person in terms of infection and transmission. Based on this reporting, the CDC acknowledges that now. It's embarrassing to hear how experts outside the US talk about the CDC now. A once revered organization is now mocked. One reviewed the CDC changes from a couple of days ago point by point and said that all that has been known for a while. They said it's great that the CDC has finally caught up. But they also pointed out that the CDC website that was updated just 2 days ago still says that the level of protection against infection in Israel is still 90%. Even though Israel publicly reported a couple of weeks ago that it's much lower. They concluded that the CDC is just out of date.
One reviewed the CDC changes from a couple of days ago point by point and said that all that has been known for a while. They said it's great that the CDC has finally caught up.
The CDC's website is obviously problematic if its outdated. But CDC can only report/make decisions based on their own findings. Science, and scientists/doctors, are incredibly methodologists when it comes to their work: especially published work. They're not going to jump all-in on another agency's report before doing their own studies that either correlate or refute others' findings. While I agree CDC throughout this pandemic has dropped many balls along the way, criticizing the agency for not embracing other countries' findings w/out conducting their own thorough research sounds like something someone who doesn't know a ton about science methodology (or is taking a lot for granted).
I'm speaking to whom you're referring to here which is interesting since essentially they mean "it's great the US has caught up w/Delta that the rest of the world was ravaged by first."