Healthcare personnel seem to recognize vaccine dangers. CDC found "as of September 15, 2021, among 3,357,348 HCP in 2,086 hospitals included in this analysis, 70.0% were fully vaccinated." Meaning that 30% had not taken the shot!
A recent medical research article said: "A novel best-case scenario cost-benefit analysis showed very conservatively that there are five times the number of deaths attributable to each inoculation vs those attributable to COVID-19 in the most vulnerable 65+ demographic." It was also noted that several studies: "have shown independently that the deaths following inoculation are not coincidental and are strongly related to inoculation through strong clustering around the time of injection. "Our independent analyses of the VAERS database confirmed these clustering findings."
"This virus may never go away," said Dr. Michael Ryan of the World Health Organization. "I don't think anyone can predict when or if this disease will disappear," he said.
Sarah Zhang has recently made some incisive observations about the never-ending pandemic. Here is what she said:
"The coronavirus becomes endemic, and we live with it forever. But what we don't know--and what the U.S. seems to have no coherent plan for--is how we are supposed to get there." But talking about an endemic just means a constantly maintained level of COVID-19 infections and transmissions. It means living with the pandemic, but just calling it an endemic. It is a poor semantic solution and deceit as long as there are high levels of hospitalizations and deaths for COVID, and as long as there are continuing lockdowns, vaccine mandates and passports, and other disruptions of normal living.
Here are more words of wisdom:
"The Delta variant and waning immunity against transmission mean herd immunity may well be impossible even if every single American gets a shot. So when COVID-related restrictions came back with the Delta wave, we no longer had an obvious off-ramp to return to normal--are we still trying to get a certain percentage of people vaccinated? Or are we waiting until all kids are eligible? Or for hospitalizations to fall and stay steady? The path ahead is not just unclear; it's nonexistent. We are meandering around the woods because we don't know where to go.
"But the level of COVID-19 risk we can live with is also not an entirely scientific question. It is a social and political one that involves balancing both the costs and benefits of restrictions and grappling with genuine pandemic fatigue among the public.
"The Delta variant and waning immunity against transmission mean herd immunity may well be impossible even if every single American gets a shot."
Accepting the ugly reality that the pandemic will not end is consistent with the findings of a recent medical research article titled "Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States." The clear meaning is that mass vaccination does not work effectively to eliminate COVID impacts. Here is a main conclusion: "The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta variant and the likelihood of future variants."
Indeed, it is clear that a number of countries, including Gibraltar, with high vaccination rates are still fighting serious COVID outbreaks and impacts, including Israel now pushing booster shots. When Israel rolled out boosters in August, they also saw spikes in infections and deaths.
Should everyone get booster shots? Especially, those with natural immunity from prior infection and vaccine immunity from full vaccination? This is called hybrid immunity. Here is what MedPage Today said:
"With a COVID-19 booster shot available for a segment of the U.S. population, an emerging group may wonder if they really need it -- those with 'hybrid immunity.'"
These are the people who are fully vaccinated but have also recovered from a case of COVID-19. Mounting evidence is clear: a bout with the virus does provide extra immunity, making a booster shot helpful but not necessary, experts say.
If you have hybrid immunity, "I would call yourself a victor," said Paul Offit, MD, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Call it a victory and bow out."
Yet many groups seem on the verge of saying that without a booster shot people will not be considered fully vaccinated and booster mandates are being discussed.
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