Protection against infection from a fourth Pfizer vaccine dose wanes to zero in just eight weeks, an Israeli study published in the NEJM has found.
The researchers looked at the records of all 1,252,331 people over 60 in Israel eligible for the fourth dose during the Omicron wave (January 10th to March 2nd 2022). They excluded various groups, including those with prior test-positive Covid to avoid confounding with natural immunity.
They compared infection rates and severe cases in the four-dose group to the three-dose group, and also to an “internal control” in the form of the four-dose group in the first week after the jab (excluding the first two days). They provided estimates of rate ratios (a measure of vaccine effectiveness) adjusted for age, sex, demographic group, and calendar day (to take into account the varying prevalence over the epidemic wave).
They found that although some fleeting protection against infection appeared to occur, it peaked two to three weeks after the injection (blue dots in the chart below) and was gone by the eighth week.
The adjusted rate of infection in the eighth week after the fourth dose was very similar to those in the control groups; the rate ratio for the three-dose group as compared with the four-dose group was 1.1 (95% CI, 1.0 to 1.2), and the rate ratio for the internal control group as compared with the four-dose group was only 1.0 (95% CI, 0.9 to 1.1).
Note that the apparent reduced risk in the first two days after the jab the researchers put down to “transient biases” such as people not getting vaccinated if unwell.
Enhanced protection against severe illness, on the other hand, persisted for the six weeks of the study (red dots above), the researchers observe. However, they sound a note of caution, pointing out that the effectiveness of earlier doses was found to wane quickly. A CDC study found that two doses were only 38% effective against hospitalisation with Omicron after six months, while another study found vaccine effectiveness against emergency department admission with Omicron waned to 41% with two doses after six months and to 48% with three doses after three months.
It’s worth noting that the four dose group in the Israeli study appears to be healthier than the three dose group, which means the vaccine effectiveness against severe disease in the chart above will be overestimated. Compared to the four dose group, the three dose group had 3.5 times the adjusted risk of severe Covid whereas the internal control group (i.e., the four dose group in its first week post-jab) had just 2.3 times the adjusted risk of severe Covid. This is a version of the healthy vaccinee effect, and means the vaccine effectiveness against severe disease above will be overestimated as it does not adjust for it.
It’s also worth noting that the raw (unadjusted) reported infection rate was higher in the internal control group than in the three-dose group (388 vs 361 per 100,000 person-days), which means the four-dose group experienced higher than average infection rate in the week after the jab (a phenomenon noted in many contexts previously). This means many of the susceptible may have been infected at that point, creating a survivorship bias in the four-dose group that lowers its infection rate and artificially increases reported vaccine effectiveness.
The study confirms that additional vaccine doses do little to nothing to reduce infection risk. They appear to have a positive impact on serious disease, though the follow-up time is too short to know how quickly this wanes. There is no reason, however, to think it will differ much from earlier doses, where it dropped to around 40% within six months.
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https://galileoisback.substack.com/p/israel-clalit-hmo-answers-please?r=i378u&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
They did not look into total mortality data,which they have,to obscure the fact that the severe outcomes deaths are worse than stated according to this just published article from Israel above
& some misguided gullible folks are still asking for more & more! beggars belief how they Conned everyone…. Almost everyone
It is up to each and everyone of us who understand how dangerous these experimental biologicals are to tell every single person you know taking them. Do it today, don’t wait. They do not work and they are dangerous. That sums it up and that is all you have to say. Direct them to Pfizer’s own trial data dump with six pages of adverse events. It is now public record.
60 kids under age ten, vaxxed, now have hepatitis? When in the hell will this dangerous genetic biological be taken off the market?
We keep hearing the facts about the ineffectiveness of the vaccine which leads people to think they must constantly top up. How about the information coming out that tells us of the terrible cancers that are now beginning to swamp society. At the moment this is falsely being put down to lack of diagnosis. However, the numbers of cancers are already outweighing that of previous years. Will no one join the dots. These injections are working very well indeed.
My Dad is in his mid seventies, he is unjabbed.
All of his golfing friends are jabbed, one has had a stroke and two have been diagnosed with cancer since the jab fest started.
He won’t even discuss it with them because they are all true believers.
This is insane being jabbed continually is not a vaccine yet people will go along with it , for as long as possible I despair humankind is over , we are finished Never except a culture like the 80’s again with Madonna Duran Duran , New Order A-HA , Whitney Hounston , Tears for Fears The Bangles the films were great Topgun , You’ve got Mail , 1984 movie similar too 2020 -2021
I do not want to be negative I have had a great weekend I went out to a Brixton walkabout I met some nice people and I tried a delicious vegan burger with chips vegan Mayo , and a lovely vegan dark chocolate Biscoff cake.
I then went to the river Thames , but on the train at least maybe 50 /50 were masked the Victoria line to Brixton is just for compliance, coming back I tore down a sticker the Blue TFL ones saying Please Social distancing something on the train it is not mandated so why still have it
and wear a face covering or face a fine or I I forgot it is still advised, yet advised is not mandated people… Read more »
Interesting and concerning.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/boosters-associated-with-higher-death?s=r
Apparently the new Pfizer vaccine ad campaign will make the claim that Jesus came back from the dead because someone slipped him a booster after he was taken down from the cross.
Pfizer juice is that good for you.
Trifling point but if there was ever a grain of truth in the effecasciousness of these vaccines, it was only in the minds of scientists, doctors, the NHS and of course government officials, aided and abetted by the opposition. The above premise assumes that a covid-19 virus ever existed, outside the minds of those who created the only method of testing for it.
Indeed. Confirmation bias writ large. That’s what mass hysteria is.
The virus itself may not exist, but the vaccines that aren’t vaccines certainly do.
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Where is Bagshot Lane in Bracknell? It is not shown on any maps.
It’s Bagshot Road as I’ve told you before and attached a map of the area. You’re acting like a troll now Mr Fox.
Lockdown Sceptic could change it, you know. I know it’s Bagshot Road / Broad Lane. (And I must have missed your post & map).
He could, but why does it bother you so much? You referred to wind turbines as windmills, I corrected you, but although you continue to call them windmills, I don’t pester you. You’ve been told that a local confirms the existence of a Bagshot Lane, but you know better because, apparently, Google is your single point of truth.
In case anyone was wondering, by “demographic group” they mean “general Jewish, Arab, or ultra-Orthodox Jewish”.
As has been the case with the protection offered by earlier Covid shots, the benefits of the fourth shot will be illusory and nothing more than statistical fraud. And as with all the earlier shots the “benefits” will be negative. This should be clear to all of us by now.
That’s not how brainwashing works 🤡
Positive benefits to Pfizer. My theory which I came up all by myself two years ago, that ‘Covid’ was all about control of people, and ripping them off at the same time, has, to my satisfaction, proved to be, sadly, true.
People have been controlled, and they have paid for all of the abuse.
I didn’t think that it would have gone on for over two years (and counting!).
Shopping in town this afternoon my partner ‘sanitised’ her hands at the entrance to the first shop. I asked why are you doing that, we’ve just come from home, and she said, exactly, we may have Covid at home.
I know why she really does it, it’s to ‘look like a model citizen’ in case the shop staff are looking. I said why are you still wearing that mask and she said it’s because that’s what the shop staff want (there are no signs, she just assumes that’s what they want).
She ‘sanitised’ her hands another 3 times (at least) during our trip to the shops. And says she won’t stop sanitising her hands and wearing a face mask until she feels it’s safe… which could be years… or maybe she’ll… Read more »
Especially women. We have forgotten women seek security. Decades of feminism etc.
Many men are no better, but the fairer sex actively seek out safety and security and are more risk averse than men. Just one aspect we rarely see discussed.
You do well to maintain your cool. I would find it very difficult to be as understanding as yourself.
At least Fat Zero, Boris, got his photo taken sat in a chair in Kiev.
Clap. Clap. Clap.
I am not thinkig it would have been nice if Kiev had been bombed when the fat bastard Boris was there and any suggestion otherwise is pure fantasy.
You think either of them were in the Ukraine?
They were just as likely in the the no.10 garden with a green screen.
Tel Aviv from what I’m hearing 😉
The Ukrainian missile brigades were busy at the time, bombing train stations it would seem.
Now now, why would psychotic neo-nazis bomb their own people in a war characterized by off the wall propaganda? I mean, really 🧐
Considering that every time someone compiles a statistic on this, the numbers differ, I suggest an alternate theory: Vaccination has exactly no positive effect and the illusion to the contrary is essentially random. Given enough time, all vaccinated people who are being tested end up infected, just as if they hadn’t been vaccinated at all. These so-called studies are essentially political. And they’re routinely stopped before the numbers keel over.
Neatly summarised!
The VAIDS afflicted “topped up”population – already suffering from a myriad of infections and conditions usually managed by their immune systems- will have no resistance to any strain of enhanced ‘flu’ that just happens to escape from a lab!
Are we ready for what might be coming next?
‘Covid’ is a religion and the ‘vaccines’ the communion wine.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-not-so-great-carbon-reset-part-2
This study took place during a time with extreme changes in infection and hospitalisation rates over the period — it is extremely difficult to compensate for background rate changes of this magnitude, but the authors barely give it a mention (it is just ‘quasi-Poisson regression’ including ‘calendar day’, which is only the barest of suggestions of how it was done, not the entirety).
Looking at the ‘flavour’ of the data it does look as though there are questions to answer. For example, the majority of the 4th dose participants were vaccinated during the first 2 weeks of the study (you can work this out from table s1); the peak ‘protection from infection’ then aligns with the peak in cases in Israel during the study (final week of Jan) and the suggested peak ‘protection from hospitalisation’ aligns with the peak in hospitalisations during the study. Ie, they would get the results they found with an overestimate of the quasi-Poisson regression parameters — this could readily occur, for example, by doing the regression over a longer time quantisation (eg, by week) or because other regression parameters forced it (eg, older people were vaccinated earlier in the study).
Dr.John Campbell has aired this study.
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/it-looks-bad-but-really-this-stuff?s=r
Populations are now such a mix of vaccinated with different amounts, people recovered from the disease, people previously with the disease, recovered and vaccinated, people who have had infections and not noticed symptoms and others with natural immunity, and a medical and scientific profession so full of grifters and charlatans, that none of these epidemiological studies is worth spit.
So, hospitalisations in the Jabby Four Dose victims are fewer than among Jabby Three Dose victims – could there be other reasons why that might be? General health and age of one group versus the other? Vax-addicts are likely to be more obsessive about their general health, for example?
The persistant claim of well of course the ‘vaccines’ don’t provide immunity, don’t stop you getting the disease, don’t stop transmissions and wear off after about 5 minutes BUT apart from them really being crap – Less Serious™️. It’s a kind of consolation prize.
I can’t be the only one who thinks Less Serious™️ is just the last redoubt of those still selling the mRNA ‘vaccines’ not least to cover their embarrassment of insisting they were effective and necessary but just cannot admit they were wrong, very wrong… about… Read more »
This may be of interest. Apparently the Pfizer compound was never meant for multiple doses. I haven’t watched this yet.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YKFcZVk0-oM
When does the whole truth bubble burst? How much longer can they hold down the lid of their real intentions?
There is a good series of documentaries that look at sars-cov-2 and how it was never isolated or shown to cause disease.
This is followed on by documentaries showing that HIV never caused any disease, also they look at the Spanish flu, smallpox, polio etc and how none of these claimed viral/bacterial pathogens have ever been shown to cause disease.
It is an eye opener, when you are shown the claimed proofs that these various viruses etc cause disease you realise that the science behind it is complete junk.
I’m coming to the understanding that virus’ simply do not exist as disease causing agents, same thing for bacteria.
The Viral Delusion
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jajyAdPMdzfJ/
Wait for their ‘enhanced’ Avian Flu now in the pipeline! Are we ready for it?
I don’t doubt that they will claim a new virus but there will be no credible evidence that there is one because there never is any credible evidence that there is a virus doing anything.
They will present lots of computer generated make believe genomes with variants but none of these will be shown to actually exist in the real world because they never can.
If this were not demonstrably true, it would be simply unbelievable
These ‘booster’ Jabs are simply designed to keep the pathogenic spike proteins working in the body not prevent “Covid” infection.
Still the us the Media to suppress the extent of their ‘vaccine’ injuries and deaths.
Still Johnson persists with his tired blown narrative – still they lie to us!
Meanwhile of very great concern, it appears that they are planning to release their new strain of bird flu which we must surely presume they have been working on ij their world-wide bioweapon labs to make it more infectious to humans.
Will they then force another miracle WHO mandated ‘vaccine’ “prepared earlier” onto the the gullible population with the same techniques as before – only ramped up with even more hysteria? Immune systems weakened by the spike protein Jabs will make human/bird cross infection much easer.
It appears there is no end to this demonic Globalist evil spewing from the UN the WHO assorted Agencies and psychotic Billionaires.
Destroying out poultry will not only seriously affect our food supplies but it seems will be another weapon in their Population Reduction operation which clearly has many… Read more »
‘But the good news must be, why worry about energy supplies? With the population cull they are planning the windmills and solar panels will be quite adequate !’
I have thought that myself.
Green energy has a supply/demand problem, they can’t do anything about the supply limitations but they can address the demand side.
Yes and all the signs show the are working on it!
We know the solution from all the billion dollar science that has been done.
To remain 100% safe from whu flu everyone must simply move around in a wheelchair.
After all we know that going into a resturant or pub was dangerous when walking in, so you needed a mask, yet it was safe when you sat down to eat or drink so no mask was needed.
Obviously ‘THE SCIENCE’ says sitting down is safe, thus wheelchairs are the solution, I bet Bill Gates has bought up wheelchair manufacturing and is churning them out as we speak.
Of course we will all need to update our wheelchair every three months because ‘THE SCIENCE’ will show that different variants of whu flu float at different levels so we will all need wheelchairs set at different heights to ‘keep us safe’.
“found vaccine effectiveness against emergency department admission with Omicron waned to 41% with two doses after six months and to 48% with three doses after three months.”
what does the effectiveness look like when you adjust for them being six times more likely to test positive?
Don’t worry Bill Gates, Fauci and Whitty have come up with a clever IV bag that fits in your pocket allowing you to be constantly fed your nutritious and delicious covid vaccine, only £99.99 for a months supply.
[Please note triple masking, social distancing and lockdown will still be required, not that these things make a blind bit of difference]
Ps
For technical reasons beyond your ability to comprehend any death from covid whilst on the drip will be classed as an unvaccinated death, no asking silly questions, just hook up your bag and shut up.
According to the French courts it will be classified as suicide.
Which objectively , with all the information in the public domain, it now is!
As Insurance companies are international -the ruling will be applied Globally.
The french case was an insurance claim that went through their civil courts. Plenty of evidence the jabs killed the poor fellow, including his own doctor’s testimony. Insurance company refused to pay out.
The judge ruled it as voluntary as he was not compelled to take the vax. That is, a form of suicide.
That is France of course. But an indicator of what’s to come.
So if he refusedthe vax and starved to death because he wasn’t allowed to work or go into a shop that obviously would be classed as suicide as well.
Welcome to the new normal.
Suicide requires an intention to kill oneself. Even if a course of action is risky and dangerous (like rock climbing) if there is no intention to kill oneself, dying as a result of that action can not be suicide. If dying as a result of being vaccinated can be classed as suicide, it must follow that mandating vaccination must be attempted murder.
I agree. But they weren’t mandated, that’s the point. It was a civil court proceeding to settle the insurance claim I believe. The judge ruled the man’s act was ultimately voluntary; he wasn’t forced and he referred to the suicide clause of the insurance claim rendering it null.
Intravenous ‘vaccine’ drips are the solution
It’s inefficient and labour intensive to go to the jab centre every two months and have a relatively small amount of gunk inserted
With a ‘drip’ the top up would be continuous
Ok, getting on the tube with a pole on wheels is an inconvenience but it’s for the greater good and it could in theory save just one life
Too inconvenient. What we need is to adapt those baseball caps with drink holders on each side. Two drips, right into the neck. That’s the way forward for the sheep, sorry, the conscientious 🧐
That is amazing.
You could have different vaccines in each can.
Do the glasses let you see which variant is in the air around you so you can sip from the most effective vaccine at any given moment.
This is double plus good.
Only £199.99, brought to you by Pfizer.
If it were up to me I’d mix them with amphetamines to crank their paranoia up to eleven just to see what happens 😀
Fu[k it, why not?
Thanks you, MrTea – I’ll think of that every time I see people displaying their latest supermasks.
It will stop me from glaring and make me laugh at them.
Back to school booster (sept1st), uncle festers Halloween booster (Oct 31st) Santa’s little booster ( Dec 25th). What a joke and still the majority lap it up.
January detox booster?
Summer Solstice Super Jab
Off subject
The dictatorship is suggesting lower gas and electric prices off peak
What thy don’t tell you is that individuals will not be able to take part in this unless they have ‘smart’ meters installed
Once ‘smart’ meters are installed they can ration or cut you off remotely
More bullying and coercion
That’s the real cult in the UK, not people conned into jabbing through the use of effective propaganda. It is the urge to control others, to run their lives that is dangerous. A religious mania, with many of these types gravitating to government and its agents.
For those in “government and its agents”, you get to feel the power firsthand. To hell with pulling the strings behind the scenes! Issue the edicts; enforce the restrictions.
These people are not primarily corrupted by money (though that might be involved, too). It’s power that’s their aphrodisiac.
SMART meters also emit LOTS of harmful electromagnetic radiation. Anyone who has one of these things installed is subjecting themselves and their family to this evil all day and all night forever. Oh and you cannot turn off the WIFI on the new routers theyre sending out – they have literally removed the on-off switch so you either frazzle your cells with this weaponised crap or no internet. Seriously, what a bunch of criminal pieces of shit we have running this place, especially these vile individuals in the government and corporate sector. No soul antihuman NAZI scum.
THey also send instructions with these new routers that they must be swicthed on at ALL times or they wont work properly. LOL. They are such scum there are no words that do them justice.
Lovely photo posted of house plant placed next to an “Alexa” device…..the side closest to the device wilted and died – the other side was just fine.
The owner ditched the machine.
TikTok is pushing ads for £2.99 in-ear bluetooth headphones made by Lenovo.
Cheap enough for children to afford and for their clueless, trendy parents to grab a bargain. Adolescent brain cancer is going be off the charts in a few years.
Frequencies cause disease, this is a cornerstone of the covid scam almost nobody talks about.
So a jab every 2 months now?
That’s what the science is telling us. So yes. Take care to explain it to your pro-jab friends. Six times a year. And remember to explain the survivors will be well protected for some of the two months 😛
Protected from coronavirus perhaps. Not so much from myocarditis and a host of other cardiac issues, neurological issues, strokes, blood clots, tinnitus, etc. etc. etc.
But they won’t end up on a ventilator – well, for at least 2 months.
Minor issues. Nothing to see here. Move along.
But no more so than unvaccinated.
Jus think, when their deadly ‘enhanced, gain of function’ new improved Avian Flu is released, immune systems will be so destroyed as to offer no resistance.
It would be just be a case of counting the numbers.
So, looking on the positive economic bright side and the Financial front, would Funeral Services now be considered a very sound investment?
You could have a good point there(albeit a bit morbid)
If that does happen it will be blamed on the unvaxxed.
I had a quick look at the study in the NEJM.
As far as I know, at this point in time no determination has yet been made (or in any event publicly admitted) as to whether ADE is a factor. If this were to be the case, might that not explain why the 3rd dose performed worse compared to the 4th dose? If waning, non-neutralising antibodies, as compared to no antibodies at all, can be used by the virus to its advantage, then at a certain distance in time from the last shot, regardless of whether it is no. 2 or 3 or 15, the person in question might be at greater risk than a person who has just had a ‘top-up’ of his/her antibodies, which does seem to be all the next poke does.
How about a study comparing 0 shots to shot no. 4 and shot no. 4 to someone whose last shot was over a year ago (so presumably no antibodies at all)?
How would that help the narrative? The jabs are safe and effective. What more do you want?
But what if the jabs could be even more safer and even more effectiver!! They should stop faffing about and just go straight for a jab a day, you know it makes sense. (cents?)
Yes, that “Man of Truth{. Johnson has told us so !
( Trialteralist Starmer agrees and says they are even more effective than claimed the more you take!)
So booster (third dose) increased infection rate… because Omicron, and in highly vaxxed places like Far East also boosted hospitalisations and deaths despite Omicron.
We also know from UK data, that double dosed got more infections, hospitalisations and deaths than single doses, and that triple dosed got more infection, hospitalisations, deaths than double dosed, and unvaccinated got least of all three.
So now we must believe fourth dose of the same jollop has the opposite effect to the third dose, but this disappears after a couple of weeks.
It just isn’t credible.
ADE is an interesting one. Do we see ADE, or do we see the result of “genetically reset immmune systems” – immune systems being screwed up by the spike protein production. ADE is based on the premise that you build “bad” antibodies from the jab, then get re-infected, then your immune system goes haywire and does all sorts of bad things because you have made bad antibodiesf. Andrew Kaufman and co have been through all the virology papers with a fine tooth comb, and the reality is that what we perceive as ADE – like I just described – is not really ADE. So for example, in one of the studies proving ADE, they injected the animals, then killed them, then they found hepatitis in the subjects. This is not consistent with the enhanced respiratory symptoms from an airborne virus I think most on here perceive as ADE from coronavirus jabs. SO this is a grey area. If people do get ill, I would say that it will be more to do with the spike protein destroying their natural immune system as opposed to “catching” something else and the bad antibodies triggering a dysfunctional respinse.
Immunization with Modified Vaccinia… Read more »
Superb presentation explaining why people are questioning virology etc:
Germs Debunk Corona
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dg1D18lNImyS/
So long as the entire Global and National Establishments are under their control, there will never be any serious questions…. unless a few of the Elite find a moral conscience – which is virtually inconceivable and would in any case just see them locked away in a psychiatric ward.!
It’s a cult
They will drink the Kool Aid till it kills them
I suspect for the hardcore it is indeed a cult. Facts and graphs won’t help them.
Yes but as we recall, in Jones Town The ‘Kool Aid’ was forced on reluctant children by their parents .