Biotechnology company Moderna says it expects people will need to get a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine before this winter as the delta variant will likely lead to more breakthrough infections.
The vaccine maker announced Thursday that its COVID-19 shot remained 93 percent effective against symptomatic disease six months after the second dose, and the company plans to complete its application for full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month.
But while the vaccine maintained a high level of protection over six months, Moderna said the spread of the highly contagious delta variant combined with waning immunity over time means boosters would be needed to keep people safe from severe illness.
“We believe that increased force of infection resulting from Delta, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) fatigue, and season effects (moving indoors) will lead to an increase of breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals,” Moderna said to its website.
“While we see durable Phase 3 efficacy through 6 months, we expect neutralizing titers will continue to wane and eventually impact vaccine efficacy. Given this intersection, we believe dose 3 booster will likely be necessary prior to the winter season,” Moderna said.
White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci on Thursday said the Biden administration is moving to get immunocompromised people booster shots “as quickly as possible.”
“It is extremely important for us to move to get those individuals their boosters, and we are now working on that and will make that be implemented as quickly as possible, because for us and for the individuals involved it is a very high priority,” .
Israel, France and Germany are moving forward with plans to offer boosters to the immunocompromised and the elderly, defying a plea by the World Health Organization (WHO) to hold off through September so poorer nations can get more of their population inoculated.
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All those Organizations, and of which NO one I know trust, they never are on the same page, IMO! They go by the seat of their pants, making assumptions, no proven data with facts, just pushing hypothetical what if's, and lots of fear, lots of numbers, mostly guessing, and plenty of propaganda IMO!
FIRST, isolate all the named viruses they name like new puppies they had born,..or made, right? After-all they have the labs, the funding, the mad-scientist, the mad-money backer's all rich enough to indulge experimenting for their diabolical plans, right?
Dang, IMO sure seems lots of folks dying more from an experiment full of genetic BS jabs, than any Covid's (1-19th sent), Flu's, colds, old age, auto-immunity issues, it's sounding like, IMO? So now the powers to be want to put the kill shot Booster in folks? This nonsense won't stop till
there is a serious, serious, come to Jesus meeting, and how this looks, not sure yet, but it's a coming, bet ya!
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