Looks like a 6 month waning, (boosters then?) and you gotta keep wearing those masks and doing at least some social distancing.wgdsr wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:00 amcareful, kismet. i've been trying to throw some data out on israel and waning and it wasn't received well. what, you think 2 doses are useless?Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:19 amPerhaps not an official readout but take a lookwgdsr wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:02 ammaybe israel will give a readout prior to sept 20. like in 3 plus weeks.tech37 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:56 am Are We Jumping the Gun on COVID Boosters?
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vi ... definition
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ultra-vac ... to-america
israel has played a large part in our policies since july, for those that aren't aware. their timeline has informed us and we're using it. what we won't see (in 3 weeks) as alluded to in the article, is intermediate to long term effects for safety. nowhere near even what we did at trials. didn't just one vaxx regimen get full approval yesterday after a year+?
i'm also dubious that with just several weeks of data on younger, healthier cohorts... that we'll see much in the way anything other than antibody jumps for boosters. maybe some on hospitalizations, but unlikely in a country the size of israel much in deaths as it'll be way underpowered. as will hospitalizations for anything but the very short term, and even then. there'll be bigger infection numbers, and we'll assume benefits from there.
but we're going to pass out 100s of millions of doses maybe.
meantime, i'm assuming someone is using this mrna platform to tweak those vaxxes for better to handle variants. what if they're ready in 3 mos? and everyone just got boosted?
strange times. take it. whadaya got to lose?
I agree, hope they figure out some tweaks to boosters, but I'm thinking get the booster as soon as allowed, get another when allowed...but don't just think, 'hey, I got vaccinated 6 months ago, so I'm all good, no need to wear a mask..."