Tag: Omicron

Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study

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Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times   The protection against severe illness from so-called natural immunity remains superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study. People who survived COVID-19 infection and were not vaccinated had sky-high protection against severe or fatal COVID-19, researchers in Qatar found. “Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3 percent … irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning.… Read the rest

FDA Panel Gives Thumbs Up to Omicron-Containing COVID Boosters

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FDA Panel Gives Thumbs Up to Omicron-Containing COVID Boosters
— Most panelists favored a bivalent vaccine containing a vaccine against the BA.4/BA.5 strains by Joyce Frieden | June 28, 2022 An FDA advisory committee voted 19-2 on Tuesday to recommend use of an Omicron-specific component in a future COVID-19 vaccine booster. “We really do need vaccines that provide broader protection against variants that have not yet emerged,” said Melinda Wharton, MD, MPH, associate director of vaccine policy at the CDC, at a remote meeting of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC).… Read the rest

Moderna says its new vaccine is more potent

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Moderna says its new vaccine is more potent
Damian McNamara | June 22, 2022 Moderna released new study results today showing a fivefold increase in neutralizing antibodies for its combination COVID-19 vaccine booster. The new booster in development contains the original mRNA-1273 (Spikevax) vaccine and one specifically designed to target the more recent BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants. The announcement comes at a time when the proportion of BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants in the United States is growing.… Read the rest

Moderna Says Omicron-Specific Booster Should Be Ready by August

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Moderna Says Omicron-Specific Booster Should Be Ready by August
June 23, 2022 Moderna Inc. announced Wednesday that the revamped COVID booster shot it has developed to fight Omicron and its subvariants should be ready for public use by August. The company has been making shots of the vaccine, called mRNA-1273.214, before getting regulatory approval so it can be ready to ship doses out for the fall and winter, when health experts worry that there could be another wave of COVID-19.… Read the rest

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: banishing unvaccinated Nova Scotia health workers doesn’t make sense

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PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: banishing unvaccinated Nova Scotia health workers doesn’t make sense
Paul Schneidereit | Posted: June 22, 2022 It’s time for Nova Scotia — desperately short of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals — to drop its mandatory vaccination policy for health-care workers. Although some may twist it that way, that’s not an anti-vaccination position. The reason is simple. COVID-19’s omicron variant, and its subvariants, have changed the rules of the conflict.… Read the rest

Omicron Sub-Variants BA.4 and BA.5 Account for up to 13% of COVID Variants in U.S. – CDC

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Omicron Sub-Variants BA.4 and BA.5 Account for up to 13% of COVID Variants in U.S. – CDC
US News reported: The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron are estimated to make up nearly 5% and 8% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of June 4, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday. The two sublineages, which were added to the World Health Organization’s monitoring list in March and designated as variants of concern by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), were present in all U.S.… Read the rest

More of the Vaccinated and Boosted Hospitalized With COVID, U.S. Pedestrian Deaths at Their Highest and MORE

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More of the Vaccinated and Boosted Hospitalized With COVID, U.S. Pedestrian Deaths at Their Highest and MORE
  More of the Vaccinated and Boosted Landing in Hospital With COVID The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported: As summer once again brings signs of a coming COVID-19 wave, an unusual trend has emerged: The Georgians who are fully vaccinated and boosted are increasingly winding up in the hospital with serious COVID-19 symptoms. The rate of hospitalizations for boosted Georgians fell again this week but still remains higher than the rate of hospitalizations for those with only the primary vaccine series (2 shots).… Read the rest

JAMA study: Pfizer Jab “Protection” Fades in Weeks, Fails After 2nd/3rd Doses and Weakens Immune System

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JAMA study: Pfizer Jab “Protection” Fades in Weeks, Fails After 2nd/3rd Doses and Weakens Immune System
  Joe Biden delivers remarks on the FDA giving full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) A peer-reviewed paper published by the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that immunity against the omicron coronavirus variant fades rapidly after a second and third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.… Read the rest