Scientists question the need for COVID-19 booster shots
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Scientists question the need for COVID-19 booster shots
Sunday, October 03, 2021 by: Nolan Barton
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(Natural News) Scientists are questioning whether or not coronavirus (COVID-19) booster shots will be needed.
Many infectious disease and vaccine development experts told Reuters there is growing evidence that the first round of global vaccinations may offer enduring protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and its most worrisome variants discovered to date.
Big Pharma executives are conditioning people’s minds
Some of those scientists expressed concern that Big Pharma executives are conditioning people’s minds.
“We don’t see the data yet that would inform a decision about whether or not booster doses are needed,” said Kate O’Brien, director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at the World Health Organization (WHO).
O’Brien said the WHO is forming a panel of experts to assess all variant and vaccine efficacy data and recommend changes to vaccination programs as needed.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, said decisions on whether boosters will be needed “will best be made by public health experts, rather than CEOs of a company who may benefit financially.”
Gandhi is taking a dig at Big Pharma executives who have been actively promoting COVID-19 booster shots. (Related: Big Pharma companies begin push for coronavirus booster shots, with no end in sight.)
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people who’ve gotten both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab would likely need a third shot within 12 months and might need an annual shot thereafter.
“There are vaccines like polio vaccine that one dose is enough, there are vaccines like pneumococcal vaccine that one dose is enough for adults, and there are vaccines like flu that you need every year,” Bourla said. “The COVID virus looks more like the influenza virus than the polio virus.”
Pfizer and BioNTech announced last month that they were testing a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine to better understand the immune response against new variants of the virus.
The companies believe their current two-dose vaccine will work against the South African variant and the one first found in the United Kingdom. But the studies will allow the vaccine makers to be prepared if and when more protection is necessary, the companies said.
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky started using the narrative in February when he told CNBC that people may need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots.
Meanwhile, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel aims to produce a vaccine by the fall that targets a variant first identified in South Africa and expects regular boosters will be needed. In March, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began testing a variety of offerings from Moderna to use as a third shot designed to boost immunity protection as concern grows about emerging variants.
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Sunday, October 03, 2021 by: Nolan Barton
Tags: Anthony Fauci, bad medicine, Big Pharma, booster shots, coronavirus, COVID, covid-19, COVID-19 booster, covid-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, Flu Season, immunity level, Joe Biden, pandemic, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine wars, vaccines, White House
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(Natural News) Scientists are questioning whether or not coronavirus (COVID-19) booster shots will be needed.
Many infectious disease and vaccine development experts told Reuters there is growing evidence that the first round of global vaccinations may offer enduring protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and its most worrisome variants discovered to date.
Big Pharma executives are conditioning people’s minds
Some of those scientists expressed concern that Big Pharma executives are conditioning people’s minds.
“We don’t see the data yet that would inform a decision about whether or not booster doses are needed,” said Kate O’Brien, director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at the World Health Organization (WHO).
O’Brien said the WHO is forming a panel of experts to assess all variant and vaccine efficacy data and recommend changes to vaccination programs as needed.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, said decisions on whether boosters will be needed “will best be made by public health experts, rather than CEOs of a company who may benefit financially.”
Gandhi is taking a dig at Big Pharma executives who have been actively promoting COVID-19 booster shots. (Related: Big Pharma companies begin push for coronavirus booster shots, with no end in sight.)
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people who’ve gotten both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab would likely need a third shot within 12 months and might need an annual shot thereafter.
“There are vaccines like polio vaccine that one dose is enough, there are vaccines like pneumococcal vaccine that one dose is enough for adults, and there are vaccines like flu that you need every year,” Bourla said. “The COVID virus looks more like the influenza virus than the polio virus.”
Pfizer and BioNTech announced last month that they were testing a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine to better understand the immune response against new variants of the virus.
The companies believe their current two-dose vaccine will work against the South African variant and the one first found in the United Kingdom. But the studies will allow the vaccine makers to be prepared if and when more protection is necessary, the companies said.
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky started using the narrative in February when he told CNBC that people may need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots.
Meanwhile, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel aims to produce a vaccine by the fall that targets a variant first identified in South Africa and expects regular boosters will be needed. In March, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began testing a variety of offerings from Moderna to use as a third shot designed to boost immunity protection as concern grows about emerging variants.
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