US health agencies will decide if COVID-19 booster shots are needed – not vaccine companies

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Although vaccine companies are already in the process of conducting clinical trials for booster shots, a decision on if and when they will be needed in the months and years to come will ultimately be made by a team of scientists and government officials.

"Clearly, the pharmaceutical companies have an economic incentive, particularly the ones who have vaccines that are for profit," Barouch said."We want the decision to be made based on public health solely and [not] on economic incentives of the companies."

Hence, the need for a booster shot will be based on evidence that the immunity from the vaccine is no longer providing sufficient protection to individuals, nor keeping transmission down to acceptable levels in terms of rates of infection, hospitalizations and deaths. According to Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, chair of the Department of Inflammation and Immunity at Cleveland Clinic, antibody titers diminish over time, and this decline is"highly variable," particularly among older people.In addition, potential outbreaks with new variants could become a key determining factor on booster vaccinations.

"We wouldn't create a booster, I think, against the variant that appeared only occasionally, even if it did evade the protection of the vaccine," he said."It would have to be a variant that looks like it's causing more illness, and as a consequence, more hospitalizations."

 

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Vaccinate all the school age children whose parents want it first

Instead of scientists etc Let’s leave decisions about grave public health issues up to untrained uneducated regular lay people who have no idea about any of it whatsoever except what they hear on the news.

icymi Canada now has 52.9% of its population with one dose. On May 4th it was 10% behind the USA in this regard, it now is ahead of the USA by 3.7%. Comparing Canada, UK and USA as well as info on Israel, Chile, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium & France

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