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Here's when British Columbians can expect to get the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
Health officials say the B.C. government is ready to begin administering doses of Moderna's Omicron-targeting bivalent vaccine "as soon as we get it" – and the wait shouldn't be long.
Health Canada authorizes first bivalent COVID-19 booster, doses to start arriving Friday
Health Canada has authorized the use of the country's first variant-targeting COVID-19 booster shot, marking what health officials are calling a 'milestone' in Canada's pandemic response. The Spikevax bivalent dose is an adapted version of the original Moderna mRNA vaccine, and targets both the...
This true?
The Mask Nerd disagreed, plus I've seen MDs with KN95s. It really comes down to how it fits on your face.
I called CVS about it yesterday morning to confirm... was really skeptical that they had the new one only a day after the FDA approving it
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I was wary of that and when I called a CVS near me, a day after it was approved, they said that I could make an appointment.... saying that they already had the new shit....
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whaaaa yall STILL takin boosters..
Yall gonna get these MRFREDDYGOODBUD BARZ...
Its like yall obsessed, caught up in a cult
taking the same shit every year
expecting a different result, listen up.. know this
thats defined as a mental illness my friend
a fuckin psychosis...
this aint no hate my friend
no tit for tat...
but if my dog was vaxxed for rabies
and STILL Got RABIES
A real knigga would have a problem with THAT!!!
BARZ!!!
Yall gonna get these MRFREDDYGOODBUD BARZ...
Its like yall obsessed, caught up in a cult
taking the same shit every year
expecting a different result, listen up.. know this
thats defined as a mental illness my friend
a fuckin psychosis...
this aint no hate my friend
no tit for tat...
but if my dog was vaxxed for rabies
and STILL Got RABIES
A real knigga would have a problem with THAT!!!
BARZ!!!
Some may be members
some may be lurking,
sorry muthafuckas
that vaccine
AINT WORKING!!!
BARZ
some may be lurking,
sorry muthafuckas
that vaccine
AINT WORKING!!!
BARZ
This shit came out last year in Japan, a fuckin
FOREIGN substance found in the viles.. Did we hear
ANYTHING about this in our big pharma and military sponsored mass media.
Do yall REALLY know whats going IN YOUR BODY???
FOREIGN substance found in the viles.. Did we hear
ANYTHING about this in our big pharma and military sponsored mass media.
Do yall REALLY know whats going IN YOUR BODY???
Japan finds black particles in Moderna vaccine
It comes less than a week after the country suspended more than a million doses due to contamination.
www.bbc.co.uk
Yea they are convinced the masses are a bunch of
jeebus freak dumb fucks,
that has to be the biggest crock of shit I heard since I had ears,
God gave us Two arms, not to till the earth for real FOOD aka
MEDICINE that is placed her for us..
but he gave us two arms to INSURE
Big pharma is not left with too flu shots and vaccines they cannot
sell.
uh Im sure big pharma thanks u billions of times over, God
Its crazy how they are covering up the vaccine deaths, and fuckin pages of side
effects... bruh they cant stop lying,
Its amazing how they keep pushing this shit... but next year, everybody will forget all
the dumbshit being said in support of big pharma,
just like they forgot biden said, YOU WILL NOT GET SICK if you take the vaccine...
Just to eat his words a year later..
They gonna pretend that never happend bruh....
sheeple think this is about saving their lives.. and not about controlling
their lvies and corporate profits... Im here to plant awakening seeds bruh!!
Is THIS THE REAL REASON WHY THEY PUSHING FOR ANNUAL SHOTS.. FUCK YO HEALTH BRUH THIS CAPITALISM BRUH
Moderna Profit Falls Amid Charges for Unused Covid-19 Vaccines
Company’s quarterly revenue increases 9%, lifted by sales of messenger-RNA-based vaccine
Moderna Profit Falls Amid Charges for Unused Covid-19 Vaccines
The biotechnology company’s quarterly revenue increases 9%, lifted by sales of its messenger-RNA-based vaccine.
www.wsj.com
My aunt took it, died a month later, my uncle took it,
had to have emergency heart operation, this was two
weeks after trying to convince me to take it...
I can observe whats going on around me, to see
right through that mindfuckery...
Folks on Jobs that Demand everybody get Vaccinated.. Question.
Are people still getting covid and taking off??
It's true. And dummies will still be lining up for more experimental injections.
Latest Covid Boosters Are Set to Roll Out Before Human Testing Is Completed
The FDA and vaccine makers say they are confident that shots targeting Omicron subvariants will work safely, even though they won’t have finished testing in humans when the FDA makes its decisions.
www.wsj.com
No worries, they are confident they are safe. While the FDA ignores it's own advisory board.
Latest Covid Boosters Are Set to Roll Out Before Human Testing Is Completed
The FDA and vaccine makers say they are confident that shots targeting Omicron subvariants will work safely
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize new Covid-19 booster shots this week without a staple of its normal decision-making process: data from a study showing whether the shots were safe and worked in humans.
The shots, modified to target the latest versions of the Omicron variant, won’t have finished testing in humans when the FDA makes its decisions.
Instead, the agency plans to assess the shots using data from other sources such as research in mice, the profiles of the original vaccines and the performance of earlier iterations of boosters targeting older forms of Omicron.
“Real world evidence from the current mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, which have been administered to millions of individuals, show us that the vaccines are safe,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a recent tweet. The FDA pointed to Dr. Califf’s tweets when asked for comment.
Clearance of the doses, without data from human testing known as clinical trials, is similar to the approach the FDA takes with flu shots, which are updated annually to keep up with mutating flu viruses.
Some vaccine experts have urged the agency to wait before clearing the new Covid-19 booster doses.
The approach has raised concerns, however, among some vaccine experts who have urged the agency to wait.
“I’m uncomfortable that we would move forward—that we would give millions or tens of millions of doses to people—based on mouse data,” said Paul Offit, an FDA adviser and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The comparison with flu vaccines isn’t sound, Dr. Offit said, because flu viruses mutate so rapidly that shots from one year don’t offer protection for the next, while currently available Covid-19 shots continue to keep people out of the hospital.
In addition to evaluating the boosters without clinical-trial data, the FDA won’t convene another element from its earlier Covid-19 vaccine reviews: a meeting of advisers who make recommendations whether the agency should authorize a shot.
The FDA scrapped the meeting, Dr. Califf said in his tweets on the subject, because the committee discussed the matter in June, and the agency doesn’t have new questions warranting its input.
The Covid-19 vaccines available in the U.S., which were first authorized for use in December 2020, haven’t been modified until now, though the virus they were designed to target has evolved.
The shots held up well against earlier strains, researchers found, but weren’t as effective against the newest Omicron subvariants like BA.5.
In planning for a fall booster campaign, federal health authorities in late June directed Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE, and Moderna Inc. to update their shots to target BA.5, an Omicron subvariant called BA.4 and the original strain of the virus.
Retooled Covid-19 boosters are similar to the original shots, including Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines, seen last year, but have been customized to fight the latest variants.
“We’ve validated the process several times over and continue to produce safe and effective vaccines against Covid-19,” a Pfizer spokeswoman said. Moderna said all current data indicates its shots are safe and effective.
Human trials for Moderna’s vaccine targeting the subvariants have started, and for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are expected to start this month, the companies have said. Results won’t be available, however, before the U.S. government’s planned fall booster campaign.
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“If we waited for clinical-trial results, thank you very much, we’d get them in the spring. It takes time to do clinical trials,” said William Schaffner, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a nonvoting liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee that will decide whether to recommend the shots, should the FDA sign off. “This is just an updating of the previous vaccine that we used.”
The retooled shots are similar to the original shots, but customized to fight the latest variants, much like keys that are nearly identical but have slightly different ridges and valleys, said John Grabenstein, director of scientific communications for Immunize.org, a nonprofit that seeks to boost immunization rates.
New Covid-19 booster shots are expected to be authorized this week by the FDA.PHOTO: CONSTANZA HEVIA H. FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The similarities make it very reasonable for regulators to weigh the overwhelmingly safe track record of the original series when considering the new shots, he said.
The FDA has reviewed test results from a shot that Moderna modified to target an early version of Omicron as well as the ancestral strain of the coronavirus. The study found the shot generated a significant amount of antibodies in humans compared with the company’s currently available booster shot. That shot is now approved in the U.K.
The agency also looked at human data from Pfizer and BioNTech finding that their experimental shots, updated to target an earlier form of Omicron, also boosted antibody levels significantly. The companies have submitted one of those shots to the U.K., EU and Canada for authorization, Pfizer has said.
Such findings give the FDA confidence that the newest modified shots will also work well, said a person familiar with the agency’s deliberations.
“As we know from prior experience, strain changes can be made without affecting safety,” Dr. Califf said in a tweet.
Dr. Offit, however, said he would like to wait for clinical-trial data showing the shots are effective before asking people to take them.
“If you have some evidence that this is likely to be of value, sure,” he said. “But if you don’t have evidence, and you know that the current vaccine does offer protection against severe disease, I don’t think it’s fair to ask people to take risks.”
The "risks" that drove the objections from Dr. Offit were not the risk of adverse reactions. They were risks that we would divert resources from developing better ways to deal with covid, that the updated booster would give people a false sense of invulnerability, and that the logistical cost wouldn't be worth it versus the vaccines that are currently available. These were the reasons he didn't like the comparisons with the flu shot.
"Vaccines remain of critical importance at this stage of the pandemic. We strongly urge that everyone who needs a vaccine dose gets one, particularly never-vaccinated people who have been fooled by distortions about vaccine safety."
"Making and rolling out an entirely new supply of Covid-19 vaccines on a nationwide basis is no trivial matter, particularly when Congress seems reluctant to provide the funds."
"Would the country be better off using the available resources to accelerate the creation of next-generation vaccines that can produce neutralizing antibodies in amounts high enough to deal with most variants? Or vaccines that can be delivered into the nose, a route that may provide stronger protection against infection?"
"It isn’t likely that an Omicron-based booster will be a magic bullet, although it might be perceived that way. It is essential to avoid offering people a false sense of security. Those who recently received an Omicron booster should not think they are now bulletproof against SARS-CoV-2 and increase their infection risk by altering their behavior. There are signs that behavioral changes may already be visible in infection statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
"Vaccines remain of critical importance at this stage of the pandemic. We strongly urge that everyone who needs a vaccine dose gets one, particularly never-vaccinated people who have been fooled by distortions about vaccine safety."
"Making and rolling out an entirely new supply of Covid-19 vaccines on a nationwide basis is no trivial matter, particularly when Congress seems reluctant to provide the funds."
"Would the country be better off using the available resources to accelerate the creation of next-generation vaccines that can produce neutralizing antibodies in amounts high enough to deal with most variants? Or vaccines that can be delivered into the nose, a route that may provide stronger protection against infection?"
"It isn’t likely that an Omicron-based booster will be a magic bullet, although it might be perceived that way. It is essential to avoid offering people a false sense of security. Those who recently received an Omicron booster should not think they are now bulletproof against SARS-CoV-2 and increase their infection risk by altering their behavior. There are signs that behavioral changes may already be visible in infection statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Imagine having so little to do in life that you're this pressed to convince people not to take a vaccine you're not taking LMAO.
Go be unvaxxed. No one in this thread is going to not take the vaccine because random niggas on BGOL said not to.
Go be unvaxxed. No one in this thread is going to not take the vaccine because random niggas on BGOL said not to.
China approved the world's first inhaled COVID-19 vaccine
Inhaling vaccines may be the only way to beat Omicron.
Cool, go get your new shot tested on 8 mice.
How can authorities consider authorizing vaccines without data from human trials?
Influenza vaccines are updated each spring to try to match the strain most likely to circulate in the fall and winter. The reformulated shots don’t have to undergo new clinical trials unless the manufacturers significantly change the way they make the vaccine. A similar approach for new COVID-19 variants makes sense, says Leif Erik Sander, an infectious disease expert at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. The changes to the mRNA are minor and providing updated vaccines as quickly as possible is “an ethical issue,” Sander says. “We need to allow people to protect themselves from a virus that we can’t fully control.”
www.science.org
But it’s a “misconception,” Maniar says, that the booster is being developed using only mice data, considering how much we now know about the underlying technology of the vaccines. “It’s not that we’re looking at something totally new,” he says. “What we’re looking at is an evolution of something that we already have a good amount of data on,” including real-world evidence of effectiveness worldwide. The mice data, he says, is really conducive to understanding the booster’s effectiveness against BA.4 and BA.5.
There’s also precedent for an expedited process like this, according to Brandon Dionne, associate clinical professor at Northeastern’s Bouve College of Health Sciences. With the influenza vaccine—which is developed each year based on a predictive model of which strains will be prevalent in a given year—the manufacturer only has to get FDA approval using testing on humans once. “Then annual updates to the inactivated vaccines are through a supplement to the license, which doesn’t require additional clinical [human trial] data since they’re based on the same manufacturing/technology platform,” he says.
news.northeastern.edu
During the 2019-2020 flu season, 52.1% of people ages six months and older got a flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
usafacts.org
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's tracking of flu vaccine distribution over the years shows that so far in the 2020-2021 flu season, 189.4 million flu vaccines have been distributed in the U.S., compared to 174 million in the 2019-2020 season.
abcnews.go.com
Influenza vaccines are updated each spring to try to match the strain most likely to circulate in the fall and winter. The reformulated shots don’t have to undergo new clinical trials unless the manufacturers significantly change the way they make the vaccine. A similar approach for new COVID-19 variants makes sense, says Leif Erik Sander, an infectious disease expert at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. The changes to the mRNA are minor and providing updated vaccines as quickly as possible is “an ethical issue,” Sander says. “We need to allow people to protect themselves from a virus that we can’t fully control.”
Science | AAAS
But it’s a “misconception,” Maniar says, that the booster is being developed using only mice data, considering how much we now know about the underlying technology of the vaccines. “It’s not that we’re looking at something totally new,” he says. “What we’re looking at is an evolution of something that we already have a good amount of data on,” including real-world evidence of effectiveness worldwide. The mice data, he says, is really conducive to understanding the booster’s effectiveness against BA.4 and BA.5.
There’s also precedent for an expedited process like this, according to Brandon Dionne, associate clinical professor at Northeastern’s Bouve College of Health Sciences. With the influenza vaccine—which is developed each year based on a predictive model of which strains will be prevalent in a given year—the manufacturer only has to get FDA approval using testing on humans once. “Then annual updates to the inactivated vaccines are through a supplement to the license, which doesn’t require additional clinical [human trial] data since they’re based on the same manufacturing/technology platform,” he says.
Benefits of new COVID-19 booster targeting variants outweigh any potential risks, experts say
The FDA is deploying a new strategy to get the next booster out the door by using genetically modified mice to expedite the process.
news.northeastern.edu
During the 2019-2020 flu season, 52.1% of people ages six months and older got a flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
How many Americans get flu shots?
Historically, children have been more likely to be vaccinated than adults.
usafacts.org
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's tracking of flu vaccine distribution over the years shows that so far in the 2020-2021 flu season, 189.4 million flu vaccines have been distributed in the U.S., compared to 174 million in the 2019-2020 season.
Flu numbers are down this year due to higher vaccination rates amid COVID pandemic
Increased rates of flu vaccinations this year may help us avoid further catastrophic stress on our health care system.
Absolutely will. And I’ll give zero fucks if you get vaccinated or not.
Definitely a "not."