Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Big Pharma and the media have divided the political parties and created racial animus so nobody will notice they are making billions to "execute the controlled demolition of American constitutional democracy." In an interview with Michael Cohen on his podcast, RFK Jr. argued you are no longer allowed to criticize government policies or you will be removed from YouTube. RFK Jr. said Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates should be criminally prosecuted for gross negligence and profiting off of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Putin Says He’s ‘Feeling Fine’ After Taking Experimental Booster https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...eeling-fine-after-taking-experimental-booster Russian leader took nasal version of Sputnik vaccine this week Nasal vaccine to enter clinical trials in Russia soon Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he took an experimental nasal Covid-19 vaccine earlier this week, a day after getting a booster injection of the locally developed Sputnik Light inoculation. The nasal version is still in trials and hasn’t been approved by regulators. Sunday, in a televised appearance announcing he’d taken the injected booster, Putin said he would volunteer to participate in the testing of the nasal vaccine, as well. That option provides better protection in the upper respiratory tract against breakthrough infections than injected versions, Denis Logunov, deputy director of the Gamaleya National Research Center, Sputnik’s developer, told Putin. The Russian president, 69, said Logunov gave him the nasal version Monday. Putin told a government meeting that he’s “feeling fine” after the boosters and had exercised today. Russia claimed to be the first to approve a Covid vaccine in the summer of 2020, but officials and scientists began getting the shots even before Sputnik was registered. Putin, however, got his first two-dose inoculation only in March of this year. ‘That’s Off-Label’ Gamaleya’s Logunov told the president that workers at the center had also tried the nasal version. “That’s off-label and we’re testing it on staff as usual,” he said. In the meeting with Putin Wednesday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said pre-clinical testing of the nasal inoculation “showed it was safe and effective” and phase 1 clinical trials in adult volunteers have been authorized. Initial results are due in about 42 days. At the same session, Putin again appealed to Russians to get vaccinated but said the government doesn’t plan to make the inoculations mandatory even though only about 40% of the population has gotten them. Officials said the government plans to register Sputnik for children aged 12-17 Wednesday.
EU regulator authorizes Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for kids 5-11 https://apnews.com/article/coronavi...ropean-union-9942c26add532adc1f72e64b8708ee6e THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator on Thursday authorized Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for use on children from 5 to 11 years old, clearing the way for shots to be administered to millions of elementary school pupils amid a new wave of infections sweeping across the continent. It is the first time the European Medicines Agency has cleared a COVID-19 vaccine for use in young children. The agency said it “recommended granting an extension of indication for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty to include use in children aged 5 to 11.” After evaluating a study of the vaccine in more than 2,000 children, the EMA estimated that the vaccine was about 90% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in young children and said the most common side effects were pain at the injection site, headaches, muscle pain and chills. The agency said the two-dose regimen should be given to children three weeks apart. At least one country facing spiking infections didn’t wait for the EMA approval. Authorities in the Austrian capital, Vienna, already have begun vaccinating the 5 to 11 age group. Europe is currently at the epicenter of the pandemic and the World Health Organization has warned the continent could see deaths top 2 million by the spring unless urgent measures are taken. The EMA green light for the vaccine developed by Pfizer and German company BioNTech has to be rubber-stamped by the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, before health authorities in member states can begin administering shots. Earlier this week, Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn said shipping of vaccines for younger children in the EU would begin on Dec. 20. The United States signed off on Pfizer’s kids-sized shots earlier this month, followed by other countries including Canada. Pfizer tested a dose that is a third of the amount given to adults for elementary school-age children. Even with the smaller shot, children who are 5 to 11 years old developed coronavirus-fighting antibody levels just as strong as teenagers and young adults getting the regular-strength shots, Dr. Bill Gruber, a Pfizer senior vice president, told The Associated Press in September. But the studies done on Pfizer’s vaccine in children haven’t been big enough to detect any rare side effects from the second dose, like the chest and heart inflammation that has been seen in mostly male older teens and young adults. American officials noted that COVID-19 has caused more deaths in children in the 5 to 11 age group than some other diseases, such as chickenpox, did before children were routinely vaccinated. Earlier this month, the EMA said it began evaluating the use of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 to 11; it estimated that a decision would be made within two months. Although children mostly only get mild symptoms of COVID-19, some public health experts believe immunizing them should be a priority to reduce the virus’ continued spread, which could theoretically lead to the emergence of a dangerous new variant. Researchers disagree on how much kids have influenced the course of the pandemic. Early research suggested they didn’t contribute much to viral spread. But some experts say children played a significant role this year spreading contagious variants such as alpha and delta. In a statement this week, WHO said that because children and teens tend to have milder COVID-19 disease than adults, “it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.” It has appealed to rich countries to stop immunizing children and asked them to donate their doses immediately to poor countries who have yet to give a first vaccine dose to their health workers and vulnerable populations. Still, WHO acknowledged that there are benefits to vaccinating children and adolescents that go beyond the immediate health benefits. “Vaccination that decreases COVID transmission in this age group may reduce transmission from children and adolescents to older adults, and may help reduce the need for mitigation measures in schools,” WHO said.
We should put this to rest. Natural immunity is as good, if not stronger than vaccination. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-...nity-11638009002?reflink=share_mobilewebshare Testing people for antibodies would give us a much better total picture of immunity in America.
And yet many medical experts and most of the data does not support natural immunity being as good as vaccinated immunity. Let’s start with the fact that 20% of the infected never even develop antibodies while 100% of the vaccinated show antibodies after their doses. I support a nuanced approach (like I stated many times before) for using natural antibody immunity with testing every three months for “Covid passports” — but it is a significant mistake to say that natural immunity is better than vaccinated immunity — it is not.
Vaccinated immunity seems to wear off after about six months without a booster. Natural immunity might be better after that point, or after some balance point earlier.
Actually over 36% of naturally infected people do not have sufficient antibody levels at the six month mark — as seen in multiple studies. A huge majority do not have sufficient antibody levels at the 12 month mark — which should be underlined by the news story this week about the family of 13 who were all re-infected one year after their initial infection. The reality is that both natural and vaccinated immunity fades — hence the need for boosters. You can get your “booster” via vaccination which is very safe or get it by catching a disease for the second time which has a case fatality rate of 2% — where the second infection for the unvaccinated tends to be worse than the initial one.
Welcome to the Biden Plague. Getting worse. No end in sight. The guy who campaigned by saying that the country would have had NO covid deaths if he had been in power. Insert party line script below: Trump yaddi di, Trump yaddi dah. DeSantis yaddi di, DeSantis yaddi dah. Red states yaddi di, Red States yaddi dah, Rinse and repeat.