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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by NewRoxFan, Feb 23, 2020.

  1. Os Trigonum

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    "Biden team tries to get ahead of the virus — and maybe the science — with decision on booster shots":

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/20/biden-coronavirus-booster-shots-criticism/

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    President Biden vowed to “follow the science” in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, but some scientists say his decision to recommend widespread coronavirus vaccine booster shots relies on incomplete data and will put pressure on regulators yet to approve the plan.

    The Biden administration’s decision to order up booster shots for vaccinated adults “doesn’t make any sense to me at all,” said Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University. “I think it’s way premature because the science doesn’t say that we need to have a booster right now. It could be a year or two, depending on the data.”

    The White House announced Wednesday that every adult American should make plans to get a booster shot, arguing that a third dose of coronavirus vaccine would boost protection against the delta variant as well as new variants that might arise. While Biden acknowledged the plan was “pending approval” from the Food and Drug Administration and experts who advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the president mostly portrayed it as a done deal, saying that tens of millions of booster shots would become available the week of Sept. 20.

    “Just remember, as a simple rule … Eight months after your second shot, get a booster shot,” Biden said.

    The president’s top science and medical advisers — including senior CDC and FDA officials — concluded last weekend that widespread booster shots were necessary, drawing on an array of data from the United States and Israel that suggested immunity from a two-dose regimen of coronavirus vaccine declined over time and that greater protection might be needed against the highly contagious delta variant. The Biden administration has spent more than a month planning for the possibility of booster shots, including securing hundreds of millions of additional doses in June and July.
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  2. Amiga

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    tough story, 4 kids left with no parent

    “Lydia has never really believed in vaccines,” Jones, 55, told The Post. “She believed that she could handle everything on her own, that you didn’t really need medicine.”

     
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    ...maybe those people need to check in with some of our illustrious faithful on this board.

    ...if that ivermectin stuff ain't beating COVID like it should and owning all those fancy liberals and that know-it-all Dr. Fauci...

    ...then it sounds like they just ain't using it right...;)
     
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    https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04425863



     
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  10. Buck Turgidson

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    I'll give yall a shot any time you want....

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  11. Commodore

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    this is a straw man, no one is advocating taking animal grade/doses

    ivermectin is on the WHO list of essential medicines, it is safer than asprin
     
  12. B-Bob

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    straw cow?
     
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    Mooo
     
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  14. Buck Turgidson

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    Yes, I'm aware it is the oral dose for people. And I'm also aware that you are a bit of a loonie.
     
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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297521000883

     
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    If you take a closer look at the source for that RCT mentioned in the abstract that showed a 92% reduction in mortality, you’ll find that it was from a preprint that was withdrawn due to ethical concerns of plagiarism and data manipulation.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w

    A fuller dissection of this paper: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/iv...oxychloroquine-take-5-the-nobel-prize-gambit/
     
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