Cloud Hobbit <
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> On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 6:06:42 AM UTC-7, a322x1n wrote:
>> "Andrew" <
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>> > "Cloud Hobbit" wrote in message
>> > news:97ef2eef-6ddf-48ad...@googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> >> My wife was recently tested for antibodies
>> >> and found to have few antibodies, so her
>> >> boss, Dr. Fink, ordered a booster for the Moderna
>> >> vaccine she had.
>> >
>> > Former "Mr.Universe" dropped dead
>> > 6 days after he got the Pfizer "booster".
>> >
>> >
https://tinyurl.com/myetkhem
>> >
>> > He_*was*_a tough healthy man.
>> >
>> > But no match for the death vax.
>> >
>> > Now gone to meet his Maker.
>> >
>> > Get your "booster" folks!
>> >
>> > If you are ready for the trip.
>> >
>> > Into the great beyond.
>> >
>> >> There are no excuses for
>> >> not getting vaccinated.
>> >
>> > AND --> the ~ boosters!
>> Oh, "Andrew", you're such a liar, and you never stop lying.
>> He didn't die from the vaccine. He died from a stroke.
>>
>> <
https://www.bustle.com/wellness/covid-19-vaccine-myths-debunked-docto
>> rs>
>
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>> <
https://tinyurl.com/bzy7s7rp
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>> COVID jabs have joined a host of vaccines that have saved millions of
>> lives, and attracted their fair share of misconceptions. “Vaccine
> s have
>> saved thousands upon thousands of lives over the years, and have
>> prevented severe disease and disabilities like polio, hepatitis, and
>> meningitis,” emergency physician Dr. Janette Nesheiwat M.D., tell
> s
>> Bustle. “The vaccine may be our greatest hope to save lives and r
> eturn
>> to normalcy.”
>>
>> Here are some of the most common myths about the COVID-19 vaccine,
>> and what doctors want you to know about them.
>>
>> Myth 1: "The Vaccines Aren't Safe"
>> With so many pharmaceutical companies competing for millions of
>> dollars
>
>> in government vaccine orders, some may worry that a vaccine might not
>> be
>
>> fully vetted before it's released.
>>
>> The short answer is that vaccines aren’t allowed to go anywhere n
> ear the
>> public until they’re shown to be safe. “Vaccine developme
> nt in the U.S.
>> follows a very rigorous process to ensure safety and efficacy before
>> a vaccine is produced and widely distributed,” Dr. Sarin says. COVI
> D-19
>> vaccines had to go through animal testing, three different clinical
>> trial phases with humans, and regulatory reviews before they made it
>> to
>
>> market. “The FDA will not approve any vaccine unless it is proven
> to be
>> at least 50% effective,” Dr. Nesheiwat says. Both Moderna and Pfi
> zer had
>> to hold off on requesting emergency use authorization from the FDA
>> until
>
>> at least half of the trial participants had had two months' worth of
>> follow up.
>>
>> “Many vaccines also have an informal 'phase IV' where researchers
>
>> continue to monitor a vaccine for safety and efficacy after it is
>> approved,” Dr. Sarin says. The teams working on COVID-19 vaccines
> across
>> 172 countries will be monitoring their work with the utmost care.
>>
>> There's also a lot of scrutiny on vaccine producers, even as the
>> pressure's high to produce one that works quickly. Dr. Teresa
>> Bartlett M.D., senior medical officer at claims management company
>> Sedgwick, tells Bustle that several drug makers developing vaccines
>> for COVID issued a public pledge not to even try to seek government
>> approval until
>
>> they have proof of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine they
>> are
>
>> developing.
>>
>> Myth 2: "The Vaccine Was Rushed"
>> “It’s true that most vaccines take years to develop, but
> scientists all
>> over the world have been working since COVID-19 emerged to find a
>> vaccine,” Dr. Sarin says. “Additionally, many of top cand
> idates that
>> have emerged for a COVID-19 vaccine were not developed entirely from
>> scratch. Some of the vaccine candidates were already in development
>> after research on similar diseases (SARS and MERS) provided
>> information
>
>> on what might work best to fight COVID-19. Pfizer and Moderna both
>> use a
>
>> technique involving mRNA drawn from cancer research, while another
>> candidate, AstraZeneca, is using a genetically altered cold virus.
>>
>> ”The fact that this is a global pandemic also means there�€
> ™s
>> collaboration between research teams, governments, and private
>> companies
>
>> all over the world. That has sped up a normally slower timeline for
>> vaccine development,” she says.
>>
>> Myth 3: "That Vaccine Trial Being Paused Was A Bad Sign"
>> When a trial for AstraZeneca's vaccine was paused in August after a
>> subject became unwell, people started to worry. Did this mean the
>> vaccine wasn't safe, or that it would hurt people?
>>
>> In reality, pauses are a good sign, because they show the drug
>> companies
>
>> are taking safety concerns seriously. “When we see companies like
>
>> AstraZeneca pause the vaccine trial — which includes thousands of
>
>> volunteers worldwide — for just one person, that is a testament t
> o their
>> priority of safety,” Dr. Nesheiwat says.
>>
>> Trials have to be paused when any participant shows an illness that
>> can’t be immediately explained. The BBC reports the patient in th
> e
>> AstraZeneca case developed an inflammatory syndrome that can result
>> from
>
>> some viral infections, but it’s not thought to be related to the
>
>> vaccine. All three front-running companies have finished various
>> trials
>
>> without any candidates suffering from severe vaccine-related side
>> effects. “The vaccine process cannot be rushed to make sure in th
> e end
>> we have a vaccine that is safe without dangerous side effects,” D
> r.
>> Bartlett says, and taking necessary pauses is one step towards that
>> goal.
>>
>> Myth 4: "A Vaccine Will Make You More Vulnerable To Illnesses"
>> Vaccines teach your immune system to recognize and fight specific
>> threats; they don’t overload the immune system or weaken it. But
> vaccine
>> trials exist to eliminate doubt about any of their effects on immune
>> function or other illnesses.
>>
>> “A vaccine is designed to improve your body’s ability to
> fight a
>> specific disease,” Dr. Sarin says. “Part of the research
> process
>> involves testing vaccines to ensure that they do not have unintended
>> side effects, such as causing other diseases or putting you at higher
>> risk for developing a different illness.” The point of the clinic
> al
>> phase III trials, she says, is to eliminate all of these side
>> effects; if the vaccine causes extreme side effects that will make it
>> too risky,
>
>> it's not coming to market. Pfizer and Moderna have passed this
>> hurdle, and AstraZeneca is hoping to clear it too once its U.S. trial
>> of 30,000
>
>> patients is finished.
>>
>> Myth 5: "A Vaccine Will Solve Everything"
>> Now that vaccines are being delivered, the pandemic's over, right?
>> Nope.
>
>> “There are still more steps that are necessary before it’
> s widely
>> available to anyone who wants a vaccine,” Dr. Sarin says. Hundred
> s of
>> millions of doses need to be manufactured and distributed, and it
>> will take a while for a significant chunk of the population to get
>> vaccinated. Infectious disease physician Michael Ison told NPR in
>> September that at least 60 to 70% of the population needs to be
>> immune to the virus to stop it from spreading; later in the year,
>> that estimate
>
>> grew closer to 80%. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two
>> doses a few weeks apart.
>>
>> Even once you're vaccinated, that's not the end of the journey. The
>> coronavirus may slowly mutate, and the immune effects of a vaccine
>> might
>
>> fade over time, meaning that one vaccine won’t work forever. â
> �œThere is
>> concern that the vaccines that are being developed will not have the
>> very high immunogenicity that we see with measles or rubella,” Dr
> . John
>> A. Sellick D.O., professor of medicine in the Jacobs School of
>> Medicine
>
>> & Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo, tells Bustle. In
>> other words, we’ll likely need to get new ones every year, like t
> he flu
>> shot. “I think that the COVID vaccines will be less than perfect,
> though
>> they will certainly give us some benefit,” he says. The head of B
> ioNTech
>> has said he believes their vaccine may last a year, but further data
>> is
>
>> needed.
>>
>> Myth 6: "A Vaccine Means You Don't Need To Wear A Mask"
>> Just because you've got a jab doesn't mean you should throw out all
>> those masks. (Which would be a pity, as they're probably pretty
>> cute.) "To protect yourselves and your communities from COVID, you
>> must continue to wear your masks even if you have been vaccinated,"
>> Dr. Nesheiwat says.
>>
>> There are a few reasons for this. For one, Dr. Nesheiwat says, you
>> need
>
>> two doses of the current vaccines, and they take at least 14 days to
>> work, so you need to stay masked over that period. For another, the
>> Pfizer and Moderna trials both found their vaccines were over 90%
>> effective at stopping people from contracting symptomatic COVID, but
>> it's unclear whether they protect against asymptomatic cases. And if
>> they don't, you could get the vaccine, catch COVID with zero
>> symptoms, and be capable of passing it on to others.
>>
>> Dr. Nesheiwat says that herd immunity, with over 70 to 80% of the
>> nation
>
>> vaccinated, is the magic number before anybody begins to think of
>> putting their masks away.
>>
>> Myth 7: "Vaccines Keep You From Spreading The Virus"
>> It's important to remember that none of the vaccines on the market
>> are 100% effective. There's still a possibility that you might end up
>> with COVID, and pass it on to other people; vaccines protect you from
>> catching it, but there's little data on whether they stop you
>> transmitting it if you get ill. And that's not counting the
>> possibility
>
>> you could get asymptomatic COVID.
>>
>> "The vaccine can protect you against severe complications of COVID-19
>> and its multiple symptoms but it is still possible to spread COVID to
>> others, even though the likelihood of this occurring is lower," Dr.
>> Nesheiwat says. "Even though I have been given the Moderna vaccine, I
>> continue to wear my mask and practice social distancing."
>>
>> Until everybody gets vaccinated, including those who are vulnerable,
>> social distancing, mask-wearing, and hand-washing will continue to be
>> the reality — and it'll be the norm for a long time, until a majo
> rity of
>> people are immunized.
>>
>> Myth 8: "The Vaccine Can Give You COVID"
>> One of the most enduring myths about the flu shot is that it can give
>> you the flu. While that myth has been definitively disproven, the
>> thinking comes from the idea that some people feel flu-ish symptoms
>> after getting the shot — as a result of side effects of the vacci
> ne, or
>> for unrelated reasons — and that the flu shot is made up of dead
> flu
>> virus.
>>
>> The same goes for the COVID vaccine — that is, that it absolutely
> will
>> not give you COVID, just like the flu shot can't give you the flu.
>>
>> Some vaccines, like AstraZeneca's, contain versions of the COVID
>> vaccine
>
>> that have been neutered — that is, they can't actually give you t
> he
>> virus itself. This vaccine operates on the same principle as flu
>> vaccines; they contain elements of the original virus that can
>> "teach" the immune system to protect against it. Moderna and Pfizer's
>> mRNA-based
>
>> vaccines go one step further; they don't contain any versions of the
>> virus at all, just instructions for your body to make the spike
>> proteins
>
>> that distinguish COVID from other viruses, which then help your body
>> create antibodies to protect you against the real thing.
>>
>> Just as with the flu virus, it is possible for people to develop
>> COVID independently after getting vaccinated. For one, even the most
>> effective
>
>> vaccines are 95% effective, meaning some people in trials still got
>> sick. It also takes a few weeks for your body to build the immunity
>> it needs to fully protect you, per the CDC, or it's possible that you
>> might
>
>> have been exposed and not showing symptoms before your shot. But
>> there is no way for any of the COVID vaccines available to actually
>> give you COVID. None. Zip. Zilch.
>>
>> Myth 9: "The COVID Vaccine Changes Your DNA"
>> Both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines use COVID mRNA to replicate
>> a small part of the virus, so your immune system can practice
>> fighting it.
>
>> But they don't alter your genetic code in any way. The mRNA used in
>> these vaccines is simply a messenger, and it tells your body a very
>> small part of the actual COVID virus — a spike protein, which is
> the bit
>> the virus uses to break into your cells.
>>
>> DNA and mRNA are very different; there's no way for the mRNA from the
>> vaccine to get anywhere near the tightly-coiled DNA in your cells.
>> "Injecting RNA into a person doesn't do anything to the DNA of a
>> human cell," Professor Jeffrey Almond from the University of Oxford
>> told the BBC. The mRNA used in the vaccine also breaks down after
>> it's used, often in a matter of hours.
>>
>> Myth 10: "The COVID Vaccine Causes Infertility"
>> Rumors have circulated that COVID vaccines can make women infertile.
>> The
>
>> myth is based on the idea that there's an apparent similarity between
>> the coronavirus' spike proteins, which the vaccine trains your body
>> to fend off, and a protein found in the placenta called syncytin-1.
>> People
>
>> are worried the antibodies the vaccine creates could attack
>> syncytin-1,
>
>> mistaking it for COVID, and harm the placenta's ability to support
>> pregnancies. But there's no chance that vaccines could affect this
>> protein. "There’s absolutely nothing to that," Francis Collins, d
> irector
>> of the National Institutes of Health, told the Washington Post.
>>
>> Some of the fear, experts say, may stem from the fact that the
>> Moderna and Pfizer vaccines weren't tested on pregnant people before
>> they were authorized for emergency use. However, there's no reason to
>> think the (excellent) safety data in those vaccines wouldn't apply to
>> pregnant people, too, Dr. Alisa Kachikis, MD, MSc, an expert in
>> obstetric pharmacology and maternal-fetal medicine at the University
>> of Washington, previously told Bustle. Further, every major OB/GYN
>> organization, including the American College of Obstetricians and
>> Gynecologists, supports pregnant people getting the vaccine, given
>> that
>
>> getting COVID while pregnant is a major health risk. Pfizer also
>> launched a trial of 4,000 pregnant people in February, so there will
>> be
>
>> safety data for this specific group in the coming months.
>>
>> Experts:
>>
>> Dr. Teresa Bartlett M.D.
>>
>> Dr. Janette Nesheiwat M.D.
>>
>> Dr. Seema Sarin M.D.
>>
>> Dr. John A. Sellick D.O.
> The figures from the UK indicate the vaccines
> have been keeping people from dying.
> The vaccines have reduced the number of cases
> and the death toll.
>
https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countri
> es-and-territories/united-kingdom/
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