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[XCR1250]

Here's When to Expect a 4th COVID-19 Booster Vaccine

 

 

Here's When to Expect a 4th COVID-19 Booster Vaccine

Zee Krstic

Sun, August 28, 2022 at 7:00 AM

 

 

• A fourth COVID-19 booster vaccine will be made available to a majority of Americans in early September, according to current projections from federal health officials.

• This booster vaccine has been specifically designed to address the prevalent Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, as well as to build further immunity on original SARS-CoV-2 strains (which is why it is called "bivalent").

• Pfizer's booster may be available immediately following federal approval, which is slated for early September. Moderna's booster shot, however, may be rolled out at a later date.

• Below, you'll learn: When these new bivalent booster vaccines will be available; who can get their 4th vaccine this fall; and if the new bivalent booster vaccines will provide more protection against COVID-19.

Federal health officials have signaled that Americans who have yet to receive a fourth COVID-19 vaccine will be able to do so shortly after Labor Day, according to multiple reports. Updated booster vaccines manufactured by teams at Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna aim to reduce the risk of further Omicron-fueled SARS-CoV-2 subvariant spread this fall. More people will be able to get this shot than previous boosters: eligibility will be wider, and will encompass more than only older and immunocompromised individuals.

Referred to as "bivalent" vaccines by healthcare officials, these targeted shots specifically target two viral Omicron subvariant strains, BA.4 and BA.5, which have been fueling the majority of new breakthrough cases recorded this summer. Current figures shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the BA.5, is responsible for more than 90% of COVID-19 cases here in the U.S. right now.

These new booster vaccines will also aim to rebuild immunity to the original coronavirus strain that people gained earlier on in the pandemic, explains Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, the director of the University of California, Irvine's program in public health.

"A 'bivalent' booster simply means that it will target two different antigens, meaning it will respond to the original coronavirus strain as well as the Omicron variant," Boden-Albala tells Good Housekeeping. "[Healthcare officials] are finding that the original vaccine hasn't been as responsive to newer variants as we hoped, hence we need these bivalent boosters."

Pifzer's new booster vaccine will be available to those older than the age of 12, while initial filings by Moderna suggest their boosters will remain targeted for anyone over 18.

When will new bivalent booster vaccines be available?

CDC officials will have a final say on the timing of the release of new booster vaccines to the public — and the agency plans to make this decision in early September, just before the federal Labor Day holiday. According to NBC News, teams at Pfizer and Moderna are actively seeking initial approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but final authorization will come from the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Currently, this board is set to meet on September 1 and 2, and is expected to sign off shortly after.

That timeline likely means Americans may be able to receive a COVID-19 booster vaccine starting in the second or third week of September, depending on how fast manufacturers can roll out vaccines to clinicians across the country. If there are supply chain issues, healthcare providers may choose to strategically provide first access to those who are at higher risk of serious infection, reported White House officials earlier this summer.

According to this CNBC report, healthcare insiders expect Pfizer's booster to be approved first and to reach healthcare providers earlier, given its wider range of initial availability to anyone over the age of 12. While Moderna's booster dose will eventually seek authorization for a wider array of ages, its 18+ shot is expected by some to be available in the first week of October — and both booster vaccines will be made available to pediatric patients later in the fall.

Who can get a 4th bivalent booster vaccine?

These new booster vaccines will lower the age of eligibility to 12 and up — but these booster vaccines will only be available to those who have completed a primary two-shot series earlier in 2022 or 2021. Why? It mostly has to do with healthcare providers wanting to ensure optimized immunity against the original strain of SARS-CoV-2.

"The original vaccine series provides a foundation for full coverage, but as we start seeing these other variants, the boosters specifically trigger the immune system to fight new strains," Boden-Albala adds.

But don't wait on the fall booster if you haven't gotten the boosters that are currently available — the boosters out right now provide crucial protection against death and hospitalization, Boden-Albala and other leading health experts say. CDC data suggests that more than half of those who gotten their initial COVID-19 vaccination series of two shots have not received their first booster vaccine as instructed, meaning they're not up-to-date on vaccinations. Getting a booster vaccine now won't prevent you from signing up for the upcoming bivalent vaccine booster shot later this winter.

Will these new bivalent booster vaccines be more protective?

Boden-Albala says that these bivalent booster vaccines were approved in the United Kingdom earlier this month, and submitted trial results seem promising. "The hope is that these particular boosters will protect us against further COVID surges and additional variants," she says. "Vaccines are effective, but these boosters are only [further] helping our immune systems target the variants that continue to pop up."

The upcoming booster, say officials, may be crucial in stemming widespread outbreaks as temperatures fall and a significant wave of new COVID-19 infections is projected to impact health on a global scale. "It's going to be really important that people this fall and winter get the new shot; it's designed for the virus that's out there," said Ashish Jha, M.D., the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator at a virtual event in mid-August.

[irv]

1 hour ago, XCR1250 said:

"The hope is that these particular boosters will protect us against further COVID surges and additional variants," she says.

Imagine sticking an unproven experimental drug in your body, (that one side affect is death) that's based on "HOPE" only. 

 

[Steve753]

8 minutes ago, irv said:

Imagine sticking an unproven experimental drug in your body, (that one side affect is death) that's based on "HOPE" only. 

 

I thought it was proven to cause all kinds of side effects?

Or is that not proven either?

 

[ViperGTS/Z1]

I think I might have covid again....not vaxxed or boosted. Needed a signature and was in close contact with someone with covid a week ago. Have killer sore throat which, from what I looked up is one of the main symptoms of current variant.  Might do the home test later to see if Im positive, dreading this....I dont want to go through what I did the first round.

[irv]

2 hours ago, XCR1250 said:

said Ashish Jha, M.D., the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator at a virtual event in mid-August.

Did you not have an article/vid of this clown, @ArcticCrusher ?

[irv]

47 minutes ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

I think I might have covid again....not vaxxed or boosted. Needed a signature and was in close contact with someone with covid a week ago. Have killer sore throat which, from what I looked up is one of the main symptoms of current variant.  Might do the home test later to see if Im positive, dreading this....I dont want to go through what I did the first round.

Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C+ Zinc daily,(or more often) Viper. 

Good luck. 

[ford_428cj]

55 minutes ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

I think I might have covid again....not vaxxed or boosted. Needed a signature and was in close contact with someone with covid a week ago. Have killer sore throat which, from what I looked up is one of the main symptoms of current variant.  Might do the home test later to see if Im positive, dreading this....I dont want to go through what I did the first round.

 

6 minutes ago, irv said:

Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C+ Zinc daily,(or more often) Viper. 

Good luck. 

And the horse paste

[irv]

10 minutes ago, ford_428cj said:

 

And the horse paste

Ivermectin is more of a "pre" covid protective measure but unfortunately the sheep, because you past President endorsed it, listened to MSM and it never really gained traction.

These studies proved otherwise but to this day, it still isn't suggested.

"Our study aimed to describe SARS-CoV2 infection and death rates in African countries that participated in an intensive Ivermectin mass campaign carried out to control onchocerciasis and compare them with those of countries that did not participate"

"Results: After controlling for different factors, including the Human Development Index (HDI), APOC countries (vs. non-APOC), show 28% lower mortality (0.72; 95% CI: 0.67-0.78) and 8% lower rate of infection (0.92; 95% CI: 0.91-0.93) due to COVID-19"


"Conclusions: The incidence in mortality rates and number of cases is significantly lower among the APOC countries compared to non-APOC countries. That a mass public health preventive campaign against COVID-19 may have taken place, inadvertently, in some African countries with massive community ivermectin use is an attractive hypothesis".
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896/

Another study from the National Institute of Health.

Results and discussion
Our study compared the incidence of COVID-19 among countries with different PCT campaigns and those countries in which PCT is non-existent. It is perhaps obvious that the latter group is by far the largest. It should also not be surprising that this set of samples had a rather large variability (Fig. 1 ). However, in spite of this, the difference between nations that deploy PCT using ivermectin and those that do not use any PCT turned out to be highly significant (adjusted significance P < 0.01). These initial results were obtained on 15 April 2020 and because at that time SARS-CoV-2 was still being detected in new countries on an almost daily basis, we chose to monitor the situation and observe whether this correlation would over time become less significant. We updated our calculations and added additional newly affected countries several times throughout the month of May 2020 and noticed that the observed association between ivermectin MDA and lower COVID-19 incidence actually grew strictly stronger over time. By 5 June 2020, the adjusted significance had improved to P < 0.001, actually reported by IBM SPSS Statistics as 0.000. It has remained at that level since.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698683/

And another one.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....26.21254377v1
"Conclusions The morbidity and mortality in the onchocerciasis endemic countries are lesser than those in the non-endemic ones. The community-directed onchocerciasis treatment with ivermectin is the most reasonable explanation for the decrease in morbidity and fatality rate in Africa. In areas where ivermectin is distributed to and used by the entire population, it leads to a significant reduction in mortality"

[Steve753]

9 minutes ago, irv said:

Ivermectin is more of a "pre" covid protective measure but unfortunately the sheep, because you past President endorsed it, listened to MSM and it never really gained traction.

These studies proved otherwise but to this day, it still isn't suggested.

"Our study aimed to describe SARS-CoV2 infection and death rates in African countries that participated in an intensive Ivermectin mass campaign carried out to control onchocerciasis and compare them with those of countries that did not participate"

"Results: After controlling for different factors, including the Human Development Index (HDI), APOC countries (vs. non-APOC), show 28% lower mortality (0.72; 95% CI: 0.67-0.78) and 8% lower rate of infection (0.92; 95% CI: 0.91-0.93) due to COVID-19"


"Conclusions: The incidence in mortality rates and number of cases is significantly lower among the APOC countries compared to non-APOC countries. That a mass public health preventive campaign against COVID-19 may have taken place, inadvertently, in some African countries with massive community ivermectin use is an attractive hypothesis".
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896/

Another study from the National Institute of Health.

Results and discussion
Our study compared the incidence of COVID-19 among countries with different PCT campaigns and those countries in which PCT is non-existent. It is perhaps obvious that the latter group is by far the largest. It should also not be surprising that this set of samples had a rather large variability (Fig. 1 ). However, in spite of this, the difference between nations that deploy PCT using ivermectin and those that do not use any PCT turned out to be highly significant (adjusted significance P < 0.01). These initial results were obtained on 15 April 2020 and because at that time SARS-CoV-2 was still being detected in new countries on an almost daily basis, we chose to monitor the situation and observe whether this correlation would over time become less significant. We updated our calculations and added additional newly affected countries several times throughout the month of May 2020 and noticed that the observed association between ivermectin MDA and lower COVID-19 incidence actually grew strictly stronger over time. By 5 June 2020, the adjusted significance had improved to P < 0.001, actually reported by IBM SPSS Statistics as 0.000. It has remained at that level since.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698683/

And another one.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....26.21254377v1
"Conclusions The morbidity and mortality in the onchocerciasis endemic countries are lesser than those in the non-endemic ones. The community-directed onchocerciasis treatment with ivermectin is the most reasonable explanation for the decrease in morbidity and fatality rate in Africa. In areas where ivermectin is distributed to and used by the entire population, it leads to a significant reduction in mortality"

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Task Force on Covid-19 have dropped the use of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) drugs from their revised guidelines for the treatment of the infection.

The decision was taken after experts found that these drugs have little to no effect on Covid-related mortality or clinical recovery of the patient

[Stephen Hawking]

1 hour ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

I think I might have covid again....not vaxxed or boosted. Needed a signature and was in close contact with someone with covid a week ago. Have killer sore throat which, from what I looked up is one of the main symptoms of current variant.  Might do the home test later to see if Im positive, dreading this....I dont want to go through what I did the first round.

It's just a cold, I read it here.

[Steve753]

Just now, Stephen Hawking said:

It's just a cold, I read it here.

You'll be called a groomer and a leftist if you keep up that nonsense!!!

[XCR1250]

1 hour ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

I think I might have covid again....not vaxxed or boosted. Needed a signature and was in close contact with someone with covid a week ago. Have killer sore throat which, from what I looked up is one of the main symptoms of current variant.  Might do the home test later to see if Im positive, dreading this....I dont want to go through what I did the first round.

Those are only about 50% accurate I'm told.

[Rod]

Think Quebec is up to 5 shots now 

[ford_428cj]

1 hour ago, Steve753 said:

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Task Force on Covid-19 have dropped the use of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) drugs from their revised guidelines for the treatment of the infection.

The decision was taken after experts found that these drugs have little to no effect on Covid-related mortality or clinical recovery of the patient

But in fauxis emails- it was known to work against Sars - which is very close to covi

[ArcticCrusher]

4 hours ago, XCR1250 said:

 

Who can get a 4th bivalent booster vaccine?

These new booster vaccines will lower the age of eligibility to 12 and up — but these booster vaccines will only be available to those who have completed a primary two-shot series earlier in 2022 or 2021. Why? It mostly has to do with healthcare providers wanting to ensure optimized immunity against the original strain of SARS-CoV-2.

"The original vaccine series provides a foundation for full coverage, but as we start seeing these other variants, the boosters specifically trigger the immune system to fight new strains," Boden-Albala adds.

 

 

Can someone with a functioning brain explain this?  The original strain is long gone.  

[ArcticCrusher]

1 hour ago, irv said:

Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C+ Zinc daily,(or more often) Viper. 

Good luck. 

Add in Black Cumin Seed Oil if you don't have IVM.

[Steve753]

4 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Can someone with a functioning brain explain this?  The original strain is long gone.  

Nothing on Twitter?

[ArcticCrusher]

1 minute ago, Steve753 said:

Nothing on Twitter?

What does CNN say?  

Just for reference when I say CNN, really mean all the fake news.

[Steve753]

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

What does CNN say?  

Just for reference when I say CNN, really mean all the fake news.

I only watch Foxnews. 

[ArcticCrusher]

4 minutes ago, Steve753 said:

I only watch Foxnews. 

So what does your Intel say?  I won't expect much.  

 

[irv]

30 minutes ago, ford_428cj said:

But in fauxis emails- it was known to work against Sars - which is very close to covi

He was suckered in the first time, and it looks like he still believes the B.S. that big Pharma and whoever else has a vested interest in the vaccines would not lie to him. 

For a guy that claims he took it because he wanted to travel, I can assume, judging by the amount of time he spends on here trolling with anyone and everyone, he must only come out of his house once a year?

More recently, a number of "new" interests from various sectors have emerged especially among those who have long believed in the "benefits" that could be delivered by the said medicine

In February 2021, the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD), an international meeting of physicians, researchers, specialists, and patients, reached a consensus recommendation that ivermectin, a verifiably safe and widely available oral medicine, be immediately deployed early and globally.

This call rested in part on claims of numerous, well-documented studies reporting that Ivermectin use reduces the risk of contracting Covid-19 by over 90 per cent and mortality by 68 to 91 per cent.

 

Similar conclusion has also been reached by an increasing number of expert groups from different parts of the world. However, they alleged being "forced to publicly expose what we believe can only be described as a 'disinformation' campaign astonishingly waged with full cooperation of those authorities whose mission is to maintain the integrity of scientific research and protect public health."

Numerous examples of the above disinformation tactics by corporations and policymakers were cited, particularly within the pharmaceutical industry. 

Some examples like: FDA posted notices overstating the dangers of Ivermectin and against use of Ivermectin; despite not having reviewed the trials data, WHO Panel avoids bringing Ivermectin evidence to a vote; numerous Big Pharma concerns that Ivermectin's potential as an alternative to vaccines may increase vaccine hesitancy and disrupt mass vaccination rollouts, just to name a few. 

https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2021/07/709059/use-ivermectin-continuous-hot-topic 

Edited August 28, 2022 by irv

[ArcticCrusher]

So when the cure is worse than the disease.

Here is Israel with monthly total mortality numbers that have increased since this pandemic started.  Remember in 2020 there was no vaccine to combat the once in a century pandemic.  Are we still trying to fool ourselves?

 

 

 

[ArcticCrusher]

Maybe the upcoming boost will correct this trend.  If not we'll there's always the next one, or the next one after that.

 

 

[ViperGTS/Z1]

2 hours ago, irv said:

Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C+ Zinc daily,(or more often) Viper. 

Good luck. 

 Going to pick some up in a little while.... worth a shot...any dose recommendations?

2 hours ago, ford_428cj said:

 

And the horse paste

Opinion on paxlovid?

1 hour ago, XCR1250 said:

Those are only about 50% accurate I'm told.

Yeah it's only a Rough Guide I guess I don't know if there are more false positives or false negatives?

[ArcticCrusher]

6 minutes ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

 Going to pick some up in a little while.... worth a shot...any dose recommendations?

Opinion on paxlovid?

Yeah it's only a Rough Guide I guess I don't know if there are more false positives or false negatives?

Beyond useless.  Look at the side effects.