Sept 12, 2023
COVID Booster News:
Pfizer & Moderna are still chasing the all the rapidly mutating SARS-Co-V-2 virus subvariants … as they release a “new” set of boosters this Friday – by offering us vaccine-boosters that were designed for the COVID substrain infections from almost a year ago … as today’s “new” boosters are not a particulary good fit with the prevalent COVID substrain infections circulating right now.
Top virology scientists are offering some interesting advice:
” Two years ago, with the pandemic raging and vaccines dramatically cutting serious illness and death, there was little doubt about their value for everyone. …
Yet now … We’re in a very different situation than we were a few years ago.”
Remember how Pfizer & Moderna used to TRUMPET “93% Efficacy !”… “96% Efficacy” … Notice that there are NO big claims for the this round of “new” boosters – because these year-old versions, have very little proof of being supposedly highly-effective against the current prevalent COVID substrains.
Especially noteworthy is how last May, the new boosters offered some early initial small reductions in hospitalization and serious COVID disease risk, yet, that protection waned to just under 50% for both between 60 – 119 days, and then:
… It plummeted to a miserable 24% protection at 6 months.
Conclusions: … Where it made a LOT of sense to get the first COVID vaccines 2 years ago , instead, now … with all the rapidly mutating SARS subvariants out there … top experts are questioning the value of this latest round of COVID boosters.
Top experts are saying: If you are seriously old (over age 79) or seriously immuno-compromised, then consider getting the “new” booster … but realize that you can’t trust its protection … and you still need to wear a tight-fitting N-95 mask when around COVID infected people.
https://www.science.org/content/article/should-i-get-covid-19-booster
Dr. Steven M. Fry
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Public Health & Environment, and Laboratory Measurement Science
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Thanks Steve. In 1967 while in Navy boot camp I “was volunteered” (Nah!) to be a guinea pig in a flu vax which kicked my butt for a few days. Ever after, I avoided flu vax, until this pandemic. And none of the recent jabs I got had noticeable effects (A-Z gave me a tiny reaction). So, I’m done with further jabs. I will, however, wear masks in dense social settings. (I don’t care how much any right-wing nuts might protest or insult.)
Should a chemist(PhD) be giving medical advice?
Editors Note:
Only if that Ph.D. Chemist is also a Public Health expert, with a wife who is one of Mexico’s top Virologists, since 1982 … who founded Mexico’s first Biosafety Level 3 laboratory.
It also helps when that Ph.D. Chemist – Public Health Expert was the first Western Scientist invited into the new independent Republics after the Soviet Union broke up … where I was invited by Ukraine … Moldova … Belarus … and Tadjikistan … to help ana;yze & advise them on how to improve their shocking 52 yr. life expectancies.
It also helps when that Ph.D. Chemist – Public Health Expert was a trusted Staff Editor for our top Biomedical Journal Revista Biomedica for 7 years.
It also helps when that Ph.D. Chemist – Public Health Expert was a trusted staff member of Mexico’s top virology lab … finding the best ways to stop Dengue Virus transmissions and West Nile Virus transmissions.
Then on to SARS – COVID Expertise:
It also helps when that Ph.D. Chemist was a top expert in Aerosol Science, of the same invisible fine aerosols from people talking, that transmit 100% of the Dengue cases …
It also helps when that same professional Aerosol Scientist – Chemist was one of just 3 top Public Health Scientitsts who identified the 2 best ways to STOP DENGUE TRANSMISSIONS in March, 2020 … Long before the CDC or the US Medical Schools changed their policies to recognize what we published in March, 2020 – the first month of the Pandemic.
https://yucalandia.com/2020/03/30/how-to-keep-yourself-safe-from-covid-19-sars-cov-2/
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Hi Steven, You do good work.
Cheers David
I was sitting next to a masked medical professional on the bus a few days ago. When asked, he told there are many cases, few hospitalizations, and no deaths. He also said it’s time to mask up again. In hospital Juarez yesterday, even though they are not required, 80-90% of folks were masked. Practically none of the staff.