A population-wide study from Israel published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that a fourth dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine ceases to have any efficacy against infection within just eight weeks (see chart above). Here is the abstract.
BACKGROUND
On January 2nd 2022, Israel began administering a fourth dose of BNT162b2 [Pfizer] vaccine to persons 60 years of age or older. Data are needed regarding the effect of the fourth dose on rates of confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
METHODS
Using the Israeli Ministry of Health database, we extracted data on 1,252,331 persons who were 60 years of age or older and eligible for the fourth dose during a period in which the B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variant of SARS-CoV-2 was predominant (January 10th through March 2nd 2022). We estimated the rate of confirmed infection and severe COVID-19 as a function of time starting at eight days after receipt of a fourth dose (four-dose groups) as compared with that among persons who had received only three doses (three-dose group) and among persons who had received a fourth dose three to seven days earlier (internal control group). For the estimation of rates, we used quasi-Poisson regression with adjustment for age, sex, demographic group, and calendar day.
RESULTS
The number of cases of severe COVID-19 per 100,000 person-days (unadjusted rate) was 1.5 in the aggregated four-dose groups, 3.9 in the three-dose group, and 4.2 in the internal control group. In the quasi-Poisson analysis, the adjusted rate of severe COVID-19 in the fourth week after receipt of the fourth dose was lower than that in the three-dose group by a factor of 3.5 (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.7 to 4.6) and was lower than that in the internal control group by a factor of 2.3 (95% CI, 1.7 to 3.3). Protection against severe illness did not wane during the six weeks after receipt of the fourth dose. The number of cases of confirmed infection per 100,000 person-days (unadjusted rate) was 177 in the aggregated four-dose groups, 361 in the three-dose group, and 388 in the internal control group. In the quasi-Poisson analysis, the adjusted rate of confirmed infection in the fourth week after receipt of the fourth dose was lower than that in the three-dose group by a factor of 2.0 (95% CI, 1.9 to 2.1) and was lower than that in the internal control group by a factor of 1.8 (95% CI, 1.7 to 1.9). However, this protection waned in later weeks.
CONCLUSIONS
Rates of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19 were lower after a fourth dose of BNT162b2 vaccine than after only three doses. Protection against confirmed infection appeared short-lived, whereas protection against severe illness did not wane during the study period.
While protection against severe disease did not appear to decrease during the six week follow-up, note that the fact that severe Covid illness was occurring in the triple-dosed at over three times the rate of the quadruple-dosed suggests that the protection of three doses against severe illness had already significantly declined. This is confirmed by other studies (e.g. here and here) and noted by the authors themselves.
Read the study here. My write-up of an earlier version can be found here.
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Andrew Doyle presented a very fair analysis of the Cass report on GB news last night. The biggest victims are the children. The second biggest group of victims have been gay people, especially lesbians who have been criticised by Stonewall for not accepting men who now identify as women into lesbian only groups.
The fear is that children who would go on to be gay are being forced to ‘change’ their sex instead and this is supported by Stonewall who were originally started to support gay people.
Yes, quite. It’s like a form of gay conversion for the older kids. Many who ‘trans’ are same-sex attracted anyway but because the whole ideology opposes homo/heterosexuality and instills confusion to vulnerable young minds, by this warped logic it is deemed better to be trans, and on they go on their pathway to royally screwing up their health and lives. The greatest shame, in my opinion, is the fact that parents are also swept up in this madness and actively encourage younger kids and teens through this whole shitshow. It’s within the parents’ power to make or break this entire process. I can understand young kids and vulnerable people, such as mentally ill or autistic people, being more easily brainwashed but the parents too?? I’m a parent and it’s like these people are a species from a different planet.
And as for the adults, ( predominantly men ) it’s like the meme says; ”So let me get this straight. You hate women but you want to become one?” Make it make sense.
My fear, as always, is the 6% of the population who are sexually attracted to children. We have fought this group out of the Church, Care homes, Schools, Sports and Social groups and the Overseas charities and many went to live abroad.
By making Trans yet another subject which cannot be questioned we enable this group to get closer to the vulnerable children to harm them. Based on a population of 80million this would be 6 million people.
I think this explains the fight back against Cass and the use of outside charities and other groups to infiltrate the schools and to go for the very young.
I can’t resist the temptation to leaven what is a very serious subject by an image that springs to mind whenever I read about this topic. 40 years or so ago, I saw, scrawled on a public urinal wall, ‘My mother made me a homosexual’. Under it in totally different handwriting was written ‘If I buy her the wool, will she make me one?’
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Stonewall should have its charitable status removed, all public funding stopped and proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
I’ve cancelled my monthly direct debit to this organisation as of this morning. I’ll put extra items in the local food bank boxes instead.
Just seen an advert asking for donations to the RNLI. The only people to fund them now are surely just the woke left and the ignorant.
I hope this is true, but my sceptical mind wonders how they could find enough volunteers to work FOC to operate the taxis 24/7 not to mention the cost of fuel and maintenance.
I used to regularly donate to them – over several years – but cancelled my support a couple of years ago. I’ve better things to spend my money on.