WASHINGTON: US health officials, after meeting with vaccine maker Pfizer, reiterated on Monday (Jul 12) that Americans who have been fully vaccinated do not need to get a booster shot, a spokesperson for the Health and Human Services Department said.
Pfizer said last week it planned to ask US regulators to authorise a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, based on evidence of greater risk of infection six months after inoculation and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
HHS officials had a briefing from Pfizer on Monday regarding their latest, preliminary data on vaccinations and will continue to discuss when and if booster shots will be needed in the future, the spokesperson said. Reuters
After proposing that a third booster dose is needed for those fully vaccinated with Pfizer vaccines, Pfizer has backed down saying there is no need for such a booster. Why? Did they find out that the vaccines are specially effective for Americans? Or they have been told to buzz off from profiting from the American people? Why the flip flop? Why the rest of the world still need the third booster but not the Americans? The rest of the world are subhuman beans or easier to con, or targetted as their source of revenue? Just keep jabbing and make the rest of the world pay and pay?
What is the truth in the need for a third booster dose? Another money making scheme to fleece the world?
Very, very funny, and very, very strange indeed.
Would the rest of the world question the logic and reasoning for a third booster dose or blindly, stupidly, unthinkingly or obediently just do as told by Pfizer?
The Pay And Pay Party would love to have Pfizer coming up with third booster shots and fourth booster shots. The more the merrier, is it not?
ReplyDeleteSG getting third dose around new year
ReplyDeleteThe Americans saw through the Pfizer money making scam by recommending more and more doses.
ReplyDeleteOur stupidity has no cure still sleeping and want to blindly follow what Pfizer recommended.
The Singapore Expurts Comedians are actually balls carriers with no spines.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is there is little to believe. Looks like playing a game of yes and no. Who do we trust now? What spin are the experts going to come out with about this about turn.
ReplyDeleteI believe there is a shortage of vaccines now as opening up depends on getting everyone vaccinated, but the target is far from being achieved. They need the booster dose reserved instead for those still unvaccinated, just like extending the second dose so that more people can have theirs.
I also understand that the cost of each dose is now increased by Pfizer. To make more money, control the supply amid the increasing demand. And demand is certainly increasing. Many countries who rolled out vaccination early this year are now approaching the occasion for a booster shot as the six months timeline is ending. The demand is there.
Are we now falling victims to the weaponisation of vaccines?
The poodles will follow the dictate of the evil empire. Need a booster, take that booster. No need to have a booster doesn't matter, if their master says so. If the master dictates six boosters a year they will say yelp, yelp.
ReplyDeleteDogs do not ask questions. They follow orders. They have been well trained eg whenever the name 'China' is mentioned they will growl viciously and bark loudly on hearing the word 'China'. Very obedient!
If the effectiveness of Pfizer vaccine last only six months, that means everyone who took the Pfizer vaccine, needs a booster shot every six months.
ReplyDeleteEach booster shot now cost at least $50. There are 8 billion people in the world.
Do the calculations and you will realise how many $billions Pfizer will make every six months!
This is the biggest scam in the world today!
Trust me, Six months is just the beginning. It will progress to three months when they ramp up their production and when vaccination target is achieved. Then they will have to think of ways to sell more of what they are now able to produce. Do not talk about conscience to these people. They have none, especially when they are Whites.
ReplyDeleteActually the Pfizer vaccines last only 3 months but they bullshit as six months, so as to save face.
ReplyDeleteCOVID-19: Reluctance To Take Drastic Proactive Actions Leads To Proliferation Of the Coronavirus Infections Happily Ever After
ReplyDeleteThe reluctance of many governments in the world to take immediate, urgent, drastic actions to block off further imports of the Covid-19 cases into their respective countries, is the fundamental reason and cause of the proliferation and spread of the coronavirus among their unaware communities.
Recently, the growing numbers of new clusters appearing in Singapore are mainly due to Type Delta Variant infected carriers from abroad, spreading the disease to the locals, especially the airport staff and customs officials.
Lately, there are new clusters of Covid-19 infections appearing among the KTVs nightclubs and at least 30 people are not Singaporeans.
The total number of these clusters is still growing. The last known report put it at 42.
At least eight of the infected are short-term visit pass holders, including the Vietnamese hostess first linked to the cluster.
As part of the stipulated immigration conditions, short-term visit pass holders are forbidden to work in Singapore without MOM's permission. Those who flouted the stipulated conditions are guilty of an immigration offence and could be barred from future entries into Singapore.
ICA and MOM reacted by vowing stern action against any foreigner from the cluster found to have committed an offence. As usual, they are very good in reactive actions rather than proactive actions.
According to the Immigration Authority, the first link to the cluster is the Vietnamese hostess who had entered Singapore in February this year on a short-term visit pass via the "Familial Ties Lane", sponsored by her Singaporean boyfriend. That is on the surface.
However, underneath the surface, there is a racket in Singapore whereby foreigners can pay a certain amount of "fee" to get a Singaporean sponsorship for their stay in Singapore on short and medium term basis, which are renewable. That explains why a short-term visit pass holder can stay from February to July this year, six months.
Usually, short-term visit pass lasts for 14 or 30 days.
To many politicians, it seems that the economy of the country is more important than the health and lives of their citizens, and the national healthcare system. As such, we are seeing a open-and-shut case repeatedly, with regard to the measures taken to curb and stop Covid-19 infections in many countries. Singapore is no exception.
As a result, the proliferation and spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus will be forever and ever. The coronavirus will be able to live happily ever after! So, the pandemic becomes endemic. This gives some very brilliant leaders the excuse to tell their people to live with the Coronavirus as if it is a common flu!
Living dangerous in a pandemic will become the new normal.
God saves not only the Queen, but also everyone of us, please!
Queen of Hearts.
ReplyDeleteThe Familial Ties Lane Or Backlane?
Many Singaporeans are unaware of the strange sounding scheme devised by the Immigration officials from the Home Affairs Ministry.
Law & Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam explained in Parliament in February this year that those allowed to enter under the scheme include those “reuniting SCs and PRs with their foreign family members or spouses-to-be who may otherwise be stranded overseas.
Under this scheme, non-residents may also seek entry to Singapore for compassionate reasons such as family bereavements.
The powerful and impressive double port-folio Minister had given an impression that such a scheme is strictly controlled, and entry is confined to only the very minimum necessary.
If the scheme applies to family members and “spouses-to-be”, and those of urgent needs, why then allowed a Vietnamese (hostess) sponsored by her "boyfriend" to enter Singapore under the Familial Ties Lane?
Enabling boyfriends (or pimps) to bring in their foreign girlfriends (or prostitues) to work in KTV nightclubs during a pandemic, when entry rules are being tightened, may be seen as an incongruous and contradictory action / policy. It certainly makes the Familial Ties Lane looks like a Backlane. Isn't it?
To our common sense, the case of a Vietnamese "girlfriend" (or prostitue) entering Singapore to work as hostess in a KTV nightclub, sponsored by her Singapore "boyfriend" (or pimp) is a clear abuse of the scheme. This has to be checked.
Does the left hand of the law (Ministry of Law) knows the right hand of law (Ministry of Home Affairs) in the implementation of this scheme?
Queen of Hearts.
I think this is essential service. With a few hundred thousand single foreigners here, if they don't let them in, think of the number of rape cases that could happen here.
ReplyDeleteEssential service or not is a different matter. It should be under a different category instead of under the Familial Ties Lane scheme.
ReplyDeleteICA should create an Essential Services Lane scheme.
Lumping sex services providers or sex workers into the Familial Ties Lane makes a mockery of the scheme.
Don't you agree?
Absolutely. Maybe they are too shy to create such a category. Such things are taboo to monks and priests. : )
ReplyDeleteCall it a Special Service Professionals Scheme (SSPS) and include all sorts of special services, such as:
ReplyDeletesocial escorts,
masseurs,
massage specialist,
physical therapists,
tour guides,
professional assistants for handicapped people,
full-time prostitutes,
priests,
preachers,
monks,
nuns,
body guards,
etc.
50% Of People Infected By COVID-19 Have Health Complications
ReplyDeleteAccording to a comprehensive new research report released on Friday, as many 50% of people hospitalised with severe COVID-19 go on to develop other health complications.
The research stated that the findings showed a “profound” short-term and long-term health impact on COVID-19 patients as well as on health and care services.
Data from more than 70,000 hospital patients across more than 300 British hospitals was collected for the research.
It found that the most common health complications were problems with patients’ kidneys, lungs, brain and heart.
The rate of complications was high even among “young, previously healthy” patients, with 27 percent of 19-29 year olds and 37 percent of 30-39 year olds experiencing at least one complication after being hospitalised with COVID-19.
The research, published in The Lancet medical journal, warn policymakers of the need to plan for long-term support for COVID survivors.
“This work contradicts current narratives that COVID-19 is only dangerous in people with existing co-morbidities and the elderly,” said senior author Professor Calum Semple, from the University of Liverpool.
“Disease severity at admission is a predictor of complications even in younger adults, so prevention of complications requires a primary prevention strategy, meaning vaccination.”
The data showed that complications were more common in men than women and slightly higher in black patients than white patients.
Significantly, nearly one in three — 27 percent — of patients were found to be less able to care for themselves after being discharged from hospital, irrespective of age, gender or race.
The research reported that the complications recorded in the research were separate from so-called “long COVID”, where sufferers manifest symptoms directly linked to the disease for weeks and often months after infection.
Longer-term monitoring of the health impacts on COVID patients is necessary and specialised follow up care for survivors should be catered.
“It is important that with the high risk of complications and the impact these have on people, that complications of COVID-19 — not just death — are considered when making decisions on how best to tackle the pandemic,” said co-author Aya Riad, from the University of Edinburgh.
“Just focussing on death from COVID-19 is likely to underestimate the true impact, particularly in younger people who are more likely to survive severe COVID-19.”
Source: AFP