COVID boosters do not make a significant difference in protection, especially in terms of protection against reinfection. In fact, the latest data shows vaccine efficacy against the coronavirus tends to drop into the negatives after just a few months. Recently, various health agencies around the world have approved and are actively pushing for another COVID booster shot, meant to enhance the vaccine efficacy.
What Does Negative Efficacy Mean?
- When a vaccine's efficacy drops into the negatives, it means that vaccination actually elevates the risks of hospitalization and severe diseases rather than reducing the risks.
- It does more harm than good when the efficacy is negative. When a product shows negative efficacy, it should be banned.
Trying to Outrun Nature
- Data shows that the vaccine used to be around 90 percent effective for weeks on end after vaccination.
- After Omicron came along, infection prevention dropped to less than 50 percent after about a month after two shots and dived into the negatives four months later
- This clearly suggests that the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns should've been suspended as soon as the OmicRON variant began to dominate over Delta.
Are Previous Infections Still Protective?
- Studies do show that in reinfected people the chances of death, hospitalization, and some form of sequela is much higher in those infected for the first time.
- Data also shows that previously infected and unvaccinated children were better at preventing a second infection compared with children who were in the same age category but who were vaccinated.
- Generally speaking, vaccine induced immunity doesn't seem to be quite as effective as that induced by a previous, natural infection.
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