Will you need a new booster vaccine?
👉🏼 OF COURSE YOU WILL!!
Back in June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would ask COVID vaccine makers to focus on using a single component in their vaccines that is targeted at the XBB.1.5 variant, which is a descendent of Omicron.
“The new booster is going to be a good match for Eris,” Dr. Russo says. “It’s only two amino acids difference in the spike protein.”
Cool. Just two amino acids.
Easy Peasy. They’ve done a great job so far on that matching thing…AND, it’s just two of those essential protein building block thingies that are encoded into that gene thingy…so roll up your sleeves useless eaters people!
🙌🏼 They’ve GOT THIS 🙌🏼
Here’s some really clear* guidance on efficacy from last fall. I’m sure it’ll be EVEN CLEARER this fall. 🤗
(if that’s even possible)
Fully vaccinated and once-boosted people (three total shots of the original mRNA vaccines) had 37- and 55-fold lower neutralization against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, respectively, than they did against the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, and about 70-fold lower neutralization against XBB and XBB.1.
Fully vaccinated and twice-boosted people (four total shots of the original mRNA vaccines) had 43- and 81-fold lower neutralization against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, respectively, than they did against the original virus, and 145- and 155-fold lower neutralization against XBB and XBB.1, respectively.
Fully vaccinated and twice-boosted people (three shots of the original vaccine plus one Omicron booster) had 24- and 41-fold lower neutralization against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, respectively, than they did against the original virus, and 66- and 85-fold lower neutralization against XBB and XBB.1, respectively.
Fully vaccinated people who had received the original booster and who had been infected with BA.2 had 20- and 29-fold lower neutralization against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, respectively, than they did against the original virus, and 103- and 135-fold lower neutralization against XBB and XBB.1, respectively.
Fully vaccinated people who had received the original booster and who had been infected with BA.4 or BA.5 had 13- and 31-fold lower neutralization against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, respectively, than they did against the original virus, and 86- and 96-fold lower neutralization against XBB and XBB.1, respectively.
Wow that was clear!
I am SO GLAD that they are totally on top of this stuff. Phew.
You know what my favorite new →The Science™ ← term is?
Ish
Oh, you haven’t heard of that? Well, you probably aren’t updated on The Science™ Booster Terms then.
There aren’t currently recommendations on who should get the new booster (and when), but they should be issued soon-ish, Dr. Schaffner says. His advice: “Listen to the recommendations. I would certainly enthusiastically support getting it.” (source)
DUH. We should always certainly ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORT getting ANYTHING ISH-Y.
Because The Science™ and stuff.
Dr. Schaffner acknowledges that “not everyone is doing that” when it comes to following isolation guidelines. “They are reverting to their usual way of doing things, which I don’t endorse,” he says.
IDIOTS…At least it won’t be on your watch, Dr. Schaffner!
Gee, I wonder if we should put masks back on since they have historically proven to be so effective against respiratory infections?
Let’s see what Dr Peter Chin Hong has to say from UCSF:
How effective are face masks at preventing the spread of COVID-19, Dr Chin-Hong?
Chin-Hong: Face masks are highly effective at reducing COVID-19 transmission
Oh wait, what’s this?
Oh, it’s just a little review from Cochrane…
The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. Hand hygiene is likely to modestly reduce the burden of respiratory illness, and although this effect was also present when ILI and laboratory‐confirmed influenza were analysed separately, it was not found to be a significant difference for the latter two outcomes. Harms associated with physical interventions were under‐investigated.
I think we can all agree that The Science™ and The Experts™ all did a really great job at Covid.
Am. I. Right?!?!?
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 Let’s hear a round of applause, folks!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
I’m just finishing up my Covid Comment Card…and what do you do if someone does a really great job at something? (Pssst….HIRE THEM BACK, of course.)
Better get that in so they’ll know if they have another job or not.
Y’ALL…This next video is from MAY OF THIS YEAR (2023) 🤣…
***PLEASE, FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, WATCH THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON BAT VIRUSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ***
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT FALL FOR IT AGAIN…
THEY ARE NOT EVEN BEING CLEVER.
THEY ARE JUST RUNNING IT BACK.
AGAIN.
tacit
tăs′ĭt
adjective
Not spoken.
Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.
Not speaking; silent.
agreement
ə-grē′mənt
noun
The act of agreeing.
Harmony of opinion; accord.
An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.
dissent
dĭ-sĕnt′
intransitive verb
To have or express an opinion different from a prevailing or official position; disagree.
To reach a conclusion contrary to the majority of the judges deciding a case; render a minority opinion.
civil disobedience
noun
Refusal to obey a law as a result of moral objections, especially through passive resistance.
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
―Pat Miller,Willfully Ignorant
The best way I’ve found to keep myself Up-to-Date, is to do the opposite of whatever they say.
2+2=5 if we say it enough and “Snow is Black” if we repeat it enough
Welcome to the Brave New World of 1984
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-brave-new-world-of-1984-part