Analysing data on the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna booster jabs provided by the U.K Health Security Agency (UKHSA), some Australian medical experts have said that three annual booster jabs will be needed for the foreseeable future. For example, Jaya Dantas, a Professor of International Health, declared that “it appears that there might be a need for regular boosters”. The Guardian has the story.
Australians may have to receive two or even three Covid jabs each year to maintain defences against the virus if early results on the efficacy of booster shots turn out to be a useful guide.
Weekly data published just before Christmas by the U.K.’s Health Security Agency shows the effectiveness of both the Pfizer and Moderna boosters against symptomatic diseases is lower for the Omicron than the Delta variant across all periods after the injection.
The analysis included 147,597 Delta and 68,489 Omicron cases in the U.K. The agency stressed the “results should be interpreted with caution due to the low counts and the possible biases related to the populations with highest exposure to Omicron (including travellers and their close contacts) which cannot fully be accounted for”.
The U.K. data showed both Pfizer and Moderna boosters had 90% effectiveness against symptomatic diseases from the Delta variant up to at least nine weeks.
By contrast, efficacy against the Omicron strain was about 30% lower, and appeared to drop away further after nine weeks.
Israel has already begun administering a second booster dose to follow the original three-dose treatment, and at least one U.S. medical centre is considering recommending staff have a second booster.
Medical experts in Australia said results beyond the 12-week dataset would be needed to get a longer term picture.
Jaya Dantas, a Professor of International Health at Curtin University, said it was still early days for the understanding of the efficacy of the vaccinations but “it appears that there might be a need for regular boosters”.
“You might need boosters, say maybe two a year or three a year,” Dantas said, with elderly people more likely to be in line for a triple annual dose…
Michael Lydeamore, an infectious disease modeller at Monash University, said it was reassuring from the U.K. study that “no matter what your initial first two vaccine doses were – so either AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna – you get basically the same protection” from the Pfizer or Moderna booster.
“That’s really important, because we know the AstraZeneca protection is a bit lower to start with than Pfizer,” Lydeamore said “But both go up to about the same level after a booster, so that’s really good.”
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He can stick his booster up his jacksy, along with all the others. We would prefer to hang on to the immune systems we’ve built up over our lifetimes. I have finished with all vaccines now – these people must never be trusted ever again. Bloody scientists will kill all life on earth in the end if we let them. Who the F do they think they are??
When will the sheeples question the need for boosters if these toxic jabs are effective?
These people are either numbskulls or they have been completely brainwashed by the Johnson regime’s lies.
😂😂😂😂😂😂oh, okay, who wants to be first to get their three a year death jabs. Come on don’t be shy, step forward. Australia has totally lost it. Never been, never going, to this hell hole.
Protection against what, exactly?
Someone needs to show these politicians the Pfizer trial design and their lack of safety data for vaccination in the previously infected.
This is an existential threat to standard scientific method.
Why don’t they just set up camps where people get permanent drip feeds of the poison. As they die from heart failure, strokes etc, they can re-use the drip for the next victim.
They could put a sign over the entrance “Impfung Macht Frei.”
That’s what they’re saying today.
I’m expecting four as the minimum by mid year.
Only three a year? Sounds like these guys have got it sorted.
THE Oxford/AstraZeneca jab gives powerful protection that may last a whole lifetime, a new study has found.
As well as generating virus-busting antibodies, the vaccine also creates “training camps” in the body for search-and-destroy T-cells which can kill even new variants. The Sun 15 July 2021……..
How long a lifetime are they specifying? Another 3 years? 4? Maybe even 5?
Strongly disagree.
And in France..
The French State Council Quietly Voted the Vaccine Pass – No Longer Democracy but a Putsch..
The machine is not going to stop unless the people stop it..
https://www.europereloaded.com/the-french-state-council-quietly-voted-the-vaccine-pass/
I wonder how many tumbrils have been sitting at the back of barns through the last two centuries, just waiting their moment to be hauled out again….
like Australian experts have a recent track record of being right about anything to do with Coronavirus? Away and bolt, ya numpties!
How can anyone be a professor of international health? Health is personal, not national, and certainly not international. Why not interplanetary or interstellar? Can’t ever risk being to modest in one’s ambitions.
‘Nations be the building blocks of Weltregierung’ – Konrad Asspanzer
(apocryphal)
I don’t quite understand what this is suppose to communicate.
The point I was trying to make is that a lot of these COVID experts have seriously pompous titles which don’t really mean anything except “I’m the head of a department gathering statistics about …”
I suppose that pompous globalists like to inflate their ambitions beyond reasonable limits. It was rather terse sarcasm I admit! 😉
The hamster wheel of hell.
All I know is that somebody in the Australian government is a BIG fan of the Mad Max franchise.
Only if you’re experiencing problems down under, one would hope?
It’s worrying that there are people in the world stupid enough to say things like this. I don’t think there is a cat in hell’s chance of it actually happening, because thankfully people this stupid are a relatively small minority. But it’s worrying all the same.
Nothing more to say
Good, but: ‘Got the jab because I’m as thick as mince. I am still as thick as mince!!’
(this one means they’re impervious to contradictions, bad effects, the whole shebang!)
Sadly, those once with brains have now lost them as well. They can just about remember to breath on their own, without following orders.
“Israel has already begun administering a second booster dose to follow the original three-dose treatment..”
No one else pick up on that subtle rewriting of history? There was no “original three-dose treatment” – at least not one that was disclosed to the public at large. J&J, one and done. AZ, two jabs for freedom.
And now, just like that, it was always meant to be 3 doses – and it also would appear not to be a vaccine after all, but a treatment. This does give plenty of scope to argue it should not be forced on people who do not need and are unlikely to need ‘treatment’.
What virus/variant will we be at war with next week and how many times will the ‘basic series of shots’ be altered?
Everyone is going to need a personal syringe driver at this rate.
It’s the only way to maintain a constant antibody high.
The quoted “expert” has a PhD in Food Science.
Enough said
https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/jaya-a-r-dantas-b525bfae/
The other guy is just a recent post grad in applied maths.
The guy who wrote the article is an “economics correspondent” who has a degree in Social Studies. Supposedly from Harvard. A Harvard degree I had never heard of before.
So the article is the usual Grauniad level drivel.
Don’t work. Take more.
Lunatics not just running but also successfully having board meetings in the asylum.
K*rwa mac!
This is what happens when you abandon your actual immune system and try to rely on vaccinations instead. It doesn’t work. You end up on a roundabout of permanent medication of declining efficacy, trying frantically to recover the natural protection you gave away.
And when you object to this (because eventually you do), what happens? Your objection is suppressed with state violence. You’re censored, bullied, coerced, fined imprisoned.
A policy this deranged and counter productive can be maintained only by extreme state violence and the abolition of all democratic norms of government. Welcome to North Korea!
Genocide.
It’s Genocide alright as I keep repeating on here. Target / completion date 2030.
I wonder what price this mans soul went for
He doesn’t have one.
Probably ball all, he’s just happy to have got in to the headlines.
An unrelated post, but does anybody know of any reliable data source that shows Covid hospitalizations and deaths by age group?
I have been attempting to debunk some people’s opinion (formed by vague news snippets) that Omicron is a threat to everybody, which is ridiculous. If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
Try a search on the ONS website. Also ‘ourworldindata.org’. Or the Zoe site.
I’d like to see properly peer reviewed papers on the claims these things work at all. We know we can’t trust the Government – ask yourself why they bought so many jabs for 65 million people.
“As of April 13, 2021, the United Kingdom government had ordered 457 million doses of various COVID-19 vaccines.”
If you divide that figure down you get 7 doses per person.
So they knew that “boosters” as they now like to call them would be necessary. Yet they told us “one jab” and then “a second jab” and now “get your booster and it will all be over”. Meanwhile Israel is on its fourth jab.
And yet not one MP is smart enough to ask the questiom in the Commons.
Perhaps they are just “smart” enough not to?
Maybe Amess was about to?
“I’d like to see properly peer reviewed papers on the claims……”
Wouldn’t we all.
The Guardian is funded by you know who to the tune of $3,499,032
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/09/inv017377
These dedicated socialists, these opponents of global capitalism and big business snd obscene personal wealth?
Yeah, it figures.
Socialists are not opposed to obscene personal wealth, as long as it’s not yours.
There is a risk to vaccinations. It may be low (according to mRNA proponents) however repeated jabs increase the risk, and that is without considering whether any of the ill effects are magnified by repetition (ie whether it is an arithmetic or geometric progression).
The experts just do not know and through their denial are just compounding any likely problem.
This is going to be rather expensive for the Govt now their compensation scheme is in force.
Or another way to contribute to the obliteration of the economy?