Only older and vulnerable people need to get an annual Covid booster, according to the head of Covid vaccine manufacturer Moderna, who also likened the virus to seasonal flu. The Mail has the story.
Stéphane Bancel said his company’s shots should mainly be targeted at over-50s and people with underlying health conditions. His comments seem to be at odds with the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) which is urging everyone over the age of five to get boosted.
Covid is now predominantly only killing the most vulnerable because the U.S. has built up strong immunity through high infection rates and repeated vaccine rollouts. There are currently around 300 deaths from the virus across the country every day, compared to more than 1,000 this time last year.
Mr. Bancel told a finance conference on Monday: “I think it’s going to be like the flu. If you’re a 25-year-old, do you need an annual booster every year if you’re healthy? You might want to… but I think it’s going to be similar to flu where it’s going to be people at high-risk, people above 50 years of age, people with comorbidities, people with cancer and other conditions, people with transplants.”
Mr. Bancel’s comments come amid a sluggish vaccine booster rollout that has seen just one in 20 eligible Americans taking up their Omicron-specific shot.
Despite there being little appetite for the new vaccines, the CDC last week approved Moderna and Pfizer’s shot for children as young as five.
Pfizer recently joined forces with Marvel for a PR campaign that appeared to target children.
But Mr. Bancel said it was “very important to think about” whether or not to get Covid boosters. He said there are around “1.5billion people” globally who would fall into the vulnerable category. But he emphasised that younger people “are going to have to decide for themselves what they want to do”.
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Nobody needs the sh*t. They know it. We know it. They know we know it. Our surefooted messaging, based on simple facts, not faith, has forced these murderers to start backtracking.
So he’s basically saying that I was right when I made my decision not to take their poison shot …. because I’m not in a vulnerable category.
I am classed as “vulnerable” but I had enough common sense to say No.
All that was required when these death shots were being rolled out was to apply common sense –
How likely am I to die if I catch this “illness?”
What sort of trials have these concoctions been subject to and over how long?
Why are manufacturers being granted across-the-board indemnity for any failures of these brews?
Seeking out the answers to just these three questions would have resulted in a very different uptake and many people still being on this planet.
The question ‘how likely am I to die if I catch this illness?’ is a major bugbear. A lot of people simply cannot get their head around the fact it is, in most people, no more than a cold, in some others, more like flu. After saying all this to a relative I got the answer, “Yes, well people can die of the flu, can’t they, so why should I take the risk?” It really is like banging your head against a brick wall and I blame the government with their all too successful brainwashing, which will never be erased for many. A much vaccinated friend is recovering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome – when I pointed her towards a paper by the BMJ about its connection with the covid ‘vaccine’ it was like I hadn’t spoken. Honestly, I find it less stressful to keep my mouth shut these days.
I think a major problem is, as Hux has pointed out, the lack of common sense. There are an almost infinite number of ways that could cause your terminal demise, but we don’t spend every minute of every day guarding against those possibilities… not yet anyway. Nowadays, there doesn’t even need to be a reason, you can just drop down dead with no explanation. Alive. Dead. Nothing too see hear, move on.
I had a heated discussion with my pro-‘vaccine’ brother recently – he’s also pro-climate change, pro-trans, pro-lockdown, pro-everything-the-Guardian-tells-him – and he said that he thought most “anti-vaxxers” were stupid. I replied something along the lines of “a new virus appeared that has an IFR similar to flu, that was/is only really of risk to the very elderly and vulnerable. To combat this flu-like virus we developed a gene-based solution, using a technology that had never before passed human clinical trials and with very little short safety data, and no long term safety data, in the space of six months, rather than the usual 6-10 years, and offered it to the public via incentives, fear, coercion and threats. Oh, and they had to change the definition of ‘vaccine’ to allow it to still be categorised as a vaccine. Oh, and it turned out it didn’t work very well. Remind me again, who’s stupid?”. Ok, it definitely wasn’t that calm and clear, but the points were there. His reply? “Well, The Guardian says…”. Honestly, I sh*t you not.
So I think it’s a mix of an inability to think for themselves, a head stubbornly stuck in the sand mentality, a lack of common sense, a deference to authority and sheer, absolute stupidity. But, yeah, it would definitely be less stressful not trying to wake these idiots from their slumber.
Funny – I’ve got a brother like that. Pro Sadiq Khan (he lives in London), pro Biden, pro Trudeau, plus all the other pros you mention.
We don’t talk very often these days.
“So I think it’s a mix of an inability to think for themselves, a head stubbornly stuck in the sand mentality, a lack of common sense, a deference to authority and sheer, absolute stupidity. ” And the comforting, modern delusion that governments/science can keep us safe from everything. The more safety we have, the more we want/expect.
Agreed. A mix of the last two I believe – a deference to authority and sheer, absolute stupidity.
Unfortunately, and what makes any attempt at raising a debate with these people so pointless is that they ALL firmly believe that we are the crackpots. Point out a few indisputable facts and all of a sudden they have lost their hearing.
I remember watching one of Neil Oliver’s monologues when he stated that we have a duty to speak out and I genuinely believe he is correct. Unfortunately, when they throw a deaf ‘un it becomes pointless. I keep trying, but deaf is DEAF.
So now we have the bizarre situation where the CDC is about to include mRNA shots in the schedule of innoculations for children and even the CEO of one of the companies making them can’t recommend them for anyone under 50.These people don’t turn their backs on profits without a very good reason, and I think we all know what that is.
It’s one better, so to say. The typical (so-called) COVID victim has comorbidities and is well beyond the so-called average expected lifespan. And this group is decidedly not identical to the group of people who are older than 49.
Change ‘over 50’s’ to ‘over 70’s’ and he’s about right.
Oh, and fully informed consent would be required, these are novel treatments only approved on an emergency basis.
Over 80, but worth remembering everyone over 80s dies, but few die over 100.
Will Californian doctors (and possibly Australian ones soon) be deregistered if they quote the Moderna CEO to patients asking whether they need a jab, as this seems to run counter to the public health guidelines.
Tough time to be a doctor with the capacity for critical thinking!
The only honourable thing a medic should be doing right now is resigning as medicine is not able to be practised by someone who waits for the evidence before treating a patient, the patient would be dead waiting for a peer reviewed paper!
Empirical medicine is what was practised prior to all these stupid protocols & pathways being imposed by bureaucrats which have nothing to do with treating the patient in front of the medic.
This is what a few doctors who are as frustrated & angry as hell at the utter failure of medics to stand up for their patients rather than being the tools of the state.
Stephane Bancel “COVID accelerated the company by about five years”. Well, that was serendipitous for them. I’d like see his smug face behind bars.
I love the part in the real Anthony Fauci film (which can be viewed for free for the next 8 days), where they have a TV clip of Fauci Poo Poohing anyone claiming the vaccines modify your genetics or RNA. They then point out Moderna choose it’s name because it is the concatenation of two words (or rather part of one word and an acronym)
. That is the very basis of the company mission statement.
“Covid is now predominantly only killing the most vulnerable because the U.S. has built up strong immunity through high infection rates and repeated vaccine rollouts.”
Lying toad.
That’s exactly the way it was before vaccination programmes were rolled out during 2021 and because strong immunity already existed because of centuries exposure to respiratory viruses including coronaviruses.
So this article is totally at odds with today’s sickening yet predictable news that the EMA has advised the European Council to approve the Pfizer and Moderna bivalent shots for infants from 6 months old. If the E.C does approve them then the final decision lies with the individual countries’ governments as to whether they will go ahead and allow the gene therapies to be used in this age group. Let’s wait and see just how unethical and anti-science Rutte’s government is. Currently in the Netherlands anyone 12 years old and over can get the latest clot shots.
https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/19/ema-gives-positive-advice-covid-19-vaccines-children-6-months
Meanwhile two days ago it was reported that 16 GPs were fined for prescribing Ivermectin and HCQ off-label here. Two drugs which have decades of excellent safety data, so safe they can be given to pregnant women, but it’s always better to “follow the science” and give infants a medication that has been tested only on a few mice.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/10/doctors-fined-for-giving-ivermectin-to-coronavirus-patients/
Oh my God. I feel sick.
The partnership between Big Pharma and Marvel has gotten a fair amount of attention. What hasn’t gotten nearly enough is the partnership between Pfizer and the SEC (the best-known college sports conference in America). Pfizer has been running commercials non-stop in college football telecasts, showing montages of past SEC great athletes and coaches, and then ending with the blurb that the SEC and Pfizer have “teamed up” to get everyone their boosters. Everyone would of course mean all the college students and athletes at the 14 institutions of higher learning that make up the SEC. So this is the greatest science minds at these prestigious colleges endorsing unnecessary and unsafe boosters for their 18 to 22-year-old students.
I wonder how much money Pfizer paid the SEC and I wonder if these colleges will one day regret taking that “blood” money?
No thanks. I deeply regret taking the first two AZ shots.