The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) is recommending for everyone six months of age and older to get vaccinated against both flu and COVID-19 this autumn, and in a new ‘Check-In with Dr. Cohen‘ video, CDC Director Mandy Cohen even suggests you can make life simple and get the shots at the same time. See the below screen shot.
In a would-be humorous ad featuring American football star Travis Kelce on doing ‘Two Things At Once‘, Pfizer is likewise promoting the idea of topping up the annual flu shot with a COVID-19 shot.
Note that the ad contains a caption which states, “The CDC recommends getting your COVID and FLU SHOTS at the same visit if you’re due for both” (capitalisation in original). See below.
But is it safe to get the Covid and flu shots at the same time?
Well, neither the CDC nor the manufacturer know. An August 30th BioNTech press release on the EU’s authorisation of Pfizer and BioNTech’s “XBB.1.5-adapted” COVID-19 vaccine includes the following paragraph in the ‘Important Safety Information’ section.
Interactions with other medicinal products or concomitant administration of COMIRNATY, COMIRNATY Original/Omicron BA.1 or COMIRNATY Original/Omicron BA.4-5 with other vaccines has not been studied.
Apparently, this is “important safety information” which has not reached Mandy Cohen and the CDC.
(Hat-tip: @Quo_vadis_BRD)
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I don’t believe the Chinese were at the top of the conspiracy but one of the things they did do early on was to run a massive social media psy-op campaign against Italian politicians etc to encourage lockdown as mentioned in one of Senger’s books “snake oil”.
James Delingpole, like many Conspiracy Theorists, is far too thin skinned.
I started following him on Telegram and I made one polite comment about agreeing with him that Covid was a scam BUT showing that viruses exist and he blocked me.
I love a good conspiracy.
I supported David Icke for 20 years, bought most of his books, paid a monthly subscription to him, watched him live at Wembley for 10 hours and donated money to his TV project The Peoples Voice.
For about 6 months, I politely debated with people on his forum about Covid being a scam and that the extreme view that viruses do not exist was harming the sceptics fight against the scam.
And one of his administrators, Grumpy Owl, blocked me.
Years ago having been “moderated” by The Guardian for my “below the line” sceptical comments I joined OffGuardian. Two years ago I politely agreed with them that Covid was a scam but SARS-CoV-2, like other viruses, does indeed exist.
One of their administrators, Sophie2, blocked me.
It seems that if you do not agree 100% with these “Conspiracy Theorists” on every subject then they ban you from any sort of debate.
If they were so convinced of their positions you would have thought they would welcome a healthy debate.
It seems they don’t believe in “free speech”.