Americans may be offered a single dose of a Covid vaccine each autumn, much as they are given flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Monday. Not all FDA advisers are happy about the plans, however. The New York Times has the story.
The proposal took some scientists by surprise, including a few of the FDA’s own advisers. They are scheduled to meet on Thursday to discuss the country’s vaccine strategy, including which doses should be offered and on what schedule.
“I’m choosing to believe that they are open to advice, and that they haven’t already made up their minds as to exactly what they’re going to do,” Dr. Paul Offit, one of the advisers and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said of FDA officials.
There was little research to support the suggested plan, some advisers said.
“I’d like to see some data on the effect of dosing interval, at least observational data,” said Dr. Eric Rubin, one of the advisers and editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. “And going forward, I’d like to see data collected to try to tell if we’re doing the right thing.”
Still, Dr. Rubin added, “I’d definitely be in favor of something simpler, as it would make it more likely that people might take it.”
Only about 40% of adults aged 65 and older, and only 16% of those five and older, have received the latest Covid booster shot. Many experts, including federal officials, have said that the doses are most important for Americans at high risk of severe disease and death from Covid: older adults, immunocompromised people, pregnant women and those with multiple underlying conditions.
In its briefing documents, the FDA addressed the varying risks to people of different ages and health status.
“Most individuals may only need to receive one dose of an approved or authorized Covid-19 vaccine to restore protective immunity for a period of time,” the agency said. Very young children who may not already have been infected with the virus, as well as older adults and immunocompromised people, may need two shots, the documents said.
But some scientists said there was little to suggest that Americans at low risk needed even a single annual shot. …
The FDA advisers said they would like to see detailed information regarding who is most vulnerable to the virus and to make decisions about future vaccination strategy based on those data.
“How old are they? What are their comorbidities? When was the last dose of vaccine they got? Did they take antiviral medicines?” Dr. Offit said. At the moment, the national strategy seems to be, “‘OK, well, let’s just dose everybody all the time,’” he said. “And that’s just not a good reason.”
According to the FDA’s suggested plan, officials would choose the annual vaccine’s composition each June, targeted to fight whatever variant is circulating.
But this year, the booster was quickly outpaced by newly evolved variants. It might make more sense to develop vaccines that target parts of the coronavirus other than the so-called spike protein, which changes less frequently, some researchers said.
Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease physician and senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said that the plan makes no sense as most people are “well protected against severe Covid disease with a primary series and without yearly boosters”.
“This makes no sense, based on what we’ve learned from the current bivalent vaccine and imprinting. Why not switch to a monovalent Omicron vaccine?” she added.
The FDA advisers said they hoped the meeting on Thursday would allow for robust discussion of such questions. But Dr. Gounder was sceptical. The voting questions “are framed in such a way as to force a certain outcome,” she said.
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A good way to keep the discredited mRNA faux-vaccine sales up and hide adverse reactions from them, among those from ‘flu shots.
Correct ! More normalising of the wonder fluid !!..
Any doubt the FDA is part of the Pfizer-Moderna crime syndicate?
It is so obvious now
I think they are all one Mafia type clique & Fauci was The Don !!
Kerching. Evidence-free, or rather the evidence backing this approach is $$$$$s for all (except the general population), and keeps the covid lies going.
The $cience $peaks for it$elf.
What a ridiculous idea. Here’s a better one: Take both the Covid jabs AND the existing annual flu jabs, and shove them where the sun don’t shine! And replace them with high-dose Vitamin D pills/gels/capsules for all who want them every October or so. And for those who still want to keep the ritual of injections, give them a 50,000 or 100,000 unit injection of Vitamin D, and hand them a bottle of lower-dose Vitamin D pills/gels/capsules to maintain it through the winter. And add some some Vitamin C, Zinc, Quercetin etc while one is at it as well.
Problem solved. But that would make too much sense, right?
You’re presuming that they want us to remain alive.
Indeed, that is probably not a very accurate presumption.
Don’t forget the K2 along side the D3 to ensure proper uptake & prevent decalcification!
Very true. And MK-7 (menaquinone) is the best form.
And Niacin as well, per Dr. Dmitry Kats.
No doubt the manufacturers will propose it globally, for their (financial) benefit.
“And going forward, I’d like to see data collected to try to tell if we’re doing the right thing.” Says a doctor and editor in chief of a supposedly prestigious medical journal.
Are you frigging kidding me? Going forward? More than 2 years after they started injecting this abject failure of a “vaccine” and only now you’re calling for data? And even then you use the unconvincing wording that the data should “try to tell” you if you’re doing the right thing? If it only “tries” to tell you, it’s obviously shit data.
Dr Gounder says the plan makes no sense – well, that means it must be “The Science”, as nothing they have said since March 2020 has made the slightest bit of sense. I notice not one single doctor quoted mentions people who have natural immunity from actual infection. So 2019 apparently.
I also like how they slipped in that they should develop vaxxes based on other parts of the virus – because the spike protein changes so frequently. A little honesty goes a long way: what you really mean is you want to switch out the toxic spike protein in the hope that people won’t notice you’ve been injecting them with garbage to cause their own bodies to produce copious amounts of a dangerous pathogen.
With this level of genius and honesty, I’ll stick with Lempsip. Cheaper and safe and effective (without the quotation marks).
I wouldn’t even touch the Lemsip -which has paracetamol in which impairs the body’s production of glutathione used for healing & repair at the cellular level. Why is pharma designed to treat one thing but cause further dis-ease as a consequence….
Far better natural alternatives. Easy one to make at home & have a jar of in the fridge is:
2-3 whole organic lemons chopped finely
60-75g of root ginger chopped finely
1 jar raw organic runny honey
Put the chopped lemon & ginger into a Kilner jar & cover with the honey. Fridge for at least a week before using.
Use for hot drinks or add to natural yoghurt. Eat the lemon & ginger.
Works a treat for sore throats & when one is under par with a respiratory infection. Damn sight cheaper than all the pharma stuff & you know what’s gone in it.
Indeed. And if one does take paracetamol (or as we call it here, acetaminophen), be sure to also take NAC (N-acetylcysteine) to replenish the glutathione it depletes. NAC is also good against the virus as well, and neutralizes the spike protein.
Vaccines schmaccines. Totally unnecessary and what we have immune systems for! This is a really good essay covering the nonsensicalness ( sp? ) of it all;
“Before you know it, all of the powers that be have seemingly forgotten that we all have this stunningly effective virus-fighting machinery onboard, a mechanism that has carried us through sudden meetings with novel viruses for literally hundreds of millions of years. But no – just like the outdated concepts that sex is binary or men cannot menstruate, the immune system is suddenly passé.
Even a year into the chaos, there was disdain from the experts about the hundreds of millions of unvaccinated who seemed to be doing just fine. The entire continent of Africa was supposed to be a bloodbath, but they were skating through unscathed (they all take Ivermectin for parasites.) No, in the “sophisticated” countries, compliance was required: get the vaxx – or else!
What our science leaders like Fauci (“I am the Science!”) forgot, as if they didn’t take pre-med sophomore molecular biology, is that mRNA is an unproven intervention in the most complex system known to mankind. It’s as if they had never studied complex systems before. They knew about Original Antigenic Sin from RSV vaccination in the 60s. They knew about ADE from Dengue fever vaccinations in the 2010s. They certainly knew that mRNA could go off and do its own thing once it’s onboard. These were not, to quote Rumsfeld, unknown unknowns.”
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/the-realization
Meanwhile in other News, I wonder what could be the cause if heart irregularities in pilots? I have read a number of US pilots have been failing mandatory medical exams, some retiring early, shortage of airline pilots. I wonder what could possibly be the cause?
From Epoch Times…
”Concerns and controversy are swirling around the decision by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to alter an electrocardiogram test limit for pilots.
A researcher for an aviation advocacy group, US Freedom Flyers (USFF), stumbled upon the EKG change in December, several weeks after the FAA enacted it.
Because the revision was made without a published explanation, USFF turned to a nationally known cardiologist and other experts to assess its importance.
They say the FAA’s change involving “the PR interval” is significant. The PR interval represents the time it takes for an electrical impulse to travel from one part of the heart to another. It is an indicator of heart health.
But “the new normal” PR interval that the FAA set for pilots is 50 percent longer than the previous limit; it deviates from a long-accepted limit in cardiology.”
Regarding the revised EKG standard, the FAA said: “When making changes to medical requirements and guidance, the FAA follows standard processes based on data and science.”
Oh well that’s reassuring – they’re following The Science™️
But maybe better to avoid the plane and let the train take the strain.
Steve Kirsch is all over this like a rash, has had a few substacks on it recently.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/us-federal-air-surgeon-susan-northrup
A prolongued PR interval is no small potatoes:
https://heart.bmj.com/content/102/9/672
Conclusions Data from observational studies suggests a possible association between prolonged PR interval and significant increases in atrial fibrillation, heart failure and mortality. Future prospective studies are needed to confirm the relationships reported, consider possible mechanisms and define the optimal monitoring strategy for such patients.
Indeed.
Meanwhile: https://www.biznews.com/health/2023/01/23/ivermectin-efficacy
I wonder whether that changes Berenson’s take on it. He now shills for Paxlovid instead.
Indeed
…..is that it then? The mRNA is approved, and considered safe and effective….?
No discussions…?
Despite the biggest backlash against a ‘drug’ that the world has possibly ever seen…?
No matter the abject safety data? No matter that there is abysmal short term efficacy and unknown long term safety problems?
No matter that ‘the people’ have spoken by not getting the ‘boosters’…and not giving it to their teenagers and young children?
No matter that it is under emergency authorisation? No matter that the ‘trials’ are still in progress? No matter that it’s the worst ‘drug’ ever for the amount of death and safety signals it has caused to be generated….?
No matter that the Pfizer ‘document dumps’ have shown malpractice on an epic scale?
No matter that the EU is currently investigating both the manufacturers and their own President of the European Commission?
No matter the systematic lies and corruption?
None of this matters? Everything gets swept under the rug? They think we will just accept that?
In whose fricken world??
They get to let up a bit in killing people with the death shot because they know there’s many more coming down the pipeline to fill that 12 month gap. Well Dr Zalenko was always adamant it was genocide and Dr McCullough thinks the same. I’d say it’s indisputable at this point. If they scrapped the Covid death shots where would that leave the billions of dollars guaranteed with all of these other kill jabs heading our way? They can’t admit failure at this crucial time.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HywYLchrnhCJ/
The trouble with natural immunity is…
…it’s free.
Give it up you morons and reopen your country so that those who suffer from a sceptical mindset and a properly functioning immune system can go and see their friends and relatives again.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1616904705195794432?s=20&t=hxq8Rz7I02gVjZEnXAKhcQ
As if anyone ‘needs’ these worse than useless injections…
And proposing two shots for ‘very young children’…this is evil.
Meanwhile, in Australia…
Tech billionaire kingpin of international vaccination policy, Bill Gates, lobbed in to plan the next pandemic with his underling, prime minister Anthony Albanese.
Gates “has warned Australia to be ready for the next pandemic, which could be man-made and far more brutal”.
So it looks like these scams are being set up back-to-back – manufactured crises which are public health terrorism to control the people, and exploit them over and over again with unnecessary jabs.
Biggest crime of all time…
Marvellous. It’ll be like an annual Christmas especially for Big Pharma ….. until all the junkies die.
To paraphrase Charlton Heston. “They will vaccinate my cold dead arm
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/london-truth-be-told-rally-giving-a-voice-to-the-injured-and-bereaved/london–truth-be-told-rally-giving-a-voice-to-the-injured-and-bereaved/