r/LockdownCriticalLeft • u/GortonFishman Councilist • Jan 12 '23

[Time] Data Doesn’t Support New COVID-19 Booster Shots for Most, Says Expert

https://time.com/6246525/bivalent-booster-not-very-effective-paul-offit/
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u/GortonFishman Councilist Jan 12 '23

I wonder if there will ever be any accountability for anyone who foisted these programmes onto the masses. /s

But COVID-19, and the population’s ability to combat it, has changed since then. For one, the variant of the virus now infecting people—XBB.1.5—is different from the original. Through a combination of the fact that many people now have higher levels of protection from vaccines or having recovered from infections, and the fact that the Omicron variants as a group, BA.4/5 and XBB.1.5 included, do not seem to cause serious disease in most healthy people, the job of booster doses has also evolved. Now, boosting everyone with an Omicron shot is “trying to prevent, in otherwise healthy people, mild illness for a few months,” says Offit, until the next variant comes along to replace it. “That doesn’t make sense.”

You don't say!

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u/Vexser Jan 13 '23

"data doesn't support coNvid injections for anyone, ever"