White House details plan to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/politics/white-house-covid-vaccines-for-children-rollout/index.html
Work on a universal Coronavirus vaccine continues... From COVID to SARS to MERS, scientists believe they can create a "universal" coronavirus vaccine Authors of a new research paper are bully on the prospect of vaccinating against all coronavirus variants at once https://www.salon.com/2021/10/18/universal-vaccine-all-coronaviruses/ We may be inching closer to a vaccine against all coronaviruses It could help us prevent future pandemics -- and fight some that are already problematic. https://www.zmescience.com/science/vaccine-all-coronaviruses-20102021/
Two vaccine doses after COVID-19 strongly boost antibody levels https://knowridge.com/2021/10/two-vaccine-doses-after-covid-19-strongly-boost-antibody-levels/
Pfizer says its booster shot has 95.6% efficacy against COVID-19 amid the Delta variant https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-booster-shot-efficacy-preventing-coronavirus-delta-2021-10
*** Raises hand *** I know the answer. "Because J&J should never have been a single dose vaccine in the first place". Why Are Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Being Urged To Get A Booster Shot Immediately? https://www.healthdigest.com/636267...a-booster-shot-immediately/?zsource=smartnews
Studies confirm COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness in teens, even against Delta https://www.latimes.com/science/sto...tect-teens-against-delta-variant-studies-show
European Journal of Epidemiology Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States S. V. Subramanian and Akhil Kumar Vaccines currently are the primary mitigation strategy to combat COVID-19 around the world. For instance, the narrative related to the ongoing surge of new cases in the United States (US) is argued to be driven by areas with low vaccination rates [1]. A similar narrative also has been observed in countries, such as Germany and the United Kingdom [2]. At the same time, Israel that was hailed for its swift and high rates of vaccination has also seen a substantial resurgence in COVID-19 cases [3]. We investigate the relationship between the percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases across 68 countries and across 2947 counties in the US. Read the full paper here, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/
Here's part of the summary in the posted article. ---------- ...In summary, even as efforts should be made to encourage populations to get vaccinated it should be done so with humility and respect. Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good. Importantly, other non-pharmacological prevention efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or handwashing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus. ---------- We had our chance to follow less stigmatizing policies before vaccinations and early in the vaccinations. Instead, the United States had several states that pushed back very hard against those simple policies including governors helping to spread misinformation about the vaccinations at the worst possible time...Delta Variant quickly rooted itself and quickly spread to the rest of the U.S. We blew our chance and people are now bitching and complaining about doing something so damn simple in a health crisis prior to vaccination and early few months of vaccination...fuck them. More importantly, the Delta Variant was targeting younger adults, children and threatening to over-run our hospital systems. Sadly, we were being warned about this November and December of 2020 and we still fucked up via not following simple public health policy in the most vulnerable communities. Any government will panic when it realizes its citizens are not suitable to do their civic duty to defeat Covid. Then came the mandates and here we are today but the good thing...vaccinations are in fact working to drop our Covid numbers especially in the hospitalizations and deaths although most of the hospitalizations are still those that are not vaccinated. Simply, we're doing much better now in our fight against Covid but it's sad to know it's because the government had to overstep in applying mandates. It was not just the United States with mandates...many European countries put mandates on American travellers to their countries in which we need to have a vaccination passport...they just don't trust us too. I'm hoping the mandates will be removed by end of the school year in June but the vaccination passports (for travel) will most likely remain until the end of next year. wrbtrader
Found on the entry of a doctor's practice: Important announcement From January 1, 2022, I will only treat fully vaccinated patients. If not fully vaccinated, you better look for another doctor, because then you have no confidence in medicine, and therefore not in me.
This doctor is also protecting the welfare, health, and safety of his employees along with protecting himself because Covid vaccines are not 100%. There's a possibility that someone had recently had a breakthrough infection at his practice...an infection from a patient that was not vaccinated...the employees then threaten to sue him silly if it happens again. By the way, the Catholic church in Canada and United States are discouraging parishioners from asking for a religious exemption letter for vaccines. As I stated in an earlier post...there will be very few religions that will play the religious exemption from vaccination for workers seeking a religious exemption. wrbtrader