Read his position on why he won't be taking the bivalent "booster". CDC's data suggests he might be in a group of people who could be in trouble. Let's hope not.
I've been reading some of Offit's books. I read vaccinated. I'd recommend it. If offers an interesting history lesson about Hilleman who was instrumental in creating many of the vaccines we use. And Autism's False Prophets. I had to tap out of the second book. He implies that the scientist who pushed to remove thimerosal from vaccines made a mistake in trying to exercise the precautionary principle. He then offers the history of breast implants and the class action lawsuits they brought on as proof the masses can't handle the truth. And so you can't actually practice the precautionary principle because it could reduce vaccine uptake and cause harm. The condescension of this implied argument is just too much for me. As far at the breast implants go...perhaps they should have done the studies that proved they were safe before launching the industry.
Re the CDC document you link to, the second section of the Summary claims: "Hospitalization rates among unvaccinated adults were approximately triple those of vaccinated adults." It's not clear how they arrive at that 3X estimate.
Dr Jack, do you know if infection w/ SARS-COV2 in the unvaxed, is causing as many or as severe of histopathological findings as are being seen by pathologists who are looking at post vaccine post mortum tissues? If so, would it still be reasonable for the unvaxxed, prior infected and recovered, to take prophylactic scripts and or supplements this coming fall and winter? Or would natural immunity to omicron be enough?
Addendum ~ "Happy Share, One of My Fav's Of All Time ~ A Million In Motion" 6 min video Fall 2021. https://youtu.be/Hb0Gjb-_wSU
The average age of hospitalized patient is creeping up so I'm guessing we're seeing a bias of older patients who are more likely to be hospitalized also being more likely to be boosted. Not exactly a glowing commendation in any case.
The CDC paper didn't appear to break down rates by age AND vaxx status, but let me know if I missed something.
I see it often said that the vaxed have negative efficacy now from the vaccines. One argument to explain this has been that the vax helped prevent some infections/hospitalisations initially but then it wore off, and that as the comparator is the unvaxed, the vaxed are merely catching up with the infections they didn’t get back when all the unvaxed got them. Is this therefore negative efficacy, or is it just zero efficacy after a few months, because the only comparator we have is the unvaxed who now have their own natural immunity?
Table 6 is the one to look at as it stratifies by age and breaks out the covid deaths separately.
Calculating person years per covid death (Column C/ColumnD) and also a combined result for 2nd dose after 21 days yields some results that are... interesting. Going to have to look again tomorrow after some coffee...
I don't understand how "fully vaccinated" is being defined in these two sentences. I thought that the CDC defines fully vaccinated as having received a booster. If so, it doesn't make sense that 48.6% of the country's fully vaccinated population is boosted.
"According to CDC, as of Sep. 07, 108,953,688 Americans had received a booster, or 48.6 percent of the country's fully vaccinated population."
"Also according to CDC, 75.5% of adult Americans have been “fully vaccinated”.
Elegantly stated, Dr. Lyons-Weiler: "Perhaps (and I hope) Offit’s immunity from the SARS-CoV-2 infection will have provided him with diverse B- and T-cells to antigens other than the spike protein." Thank you!
When a person is damaged by medicines they recommend, I consider it a form of natural selection.
Looks like Paul is... Off it.
I've been reading some of Offit's books. I read vaccinated. I'd recommend it. If offers an interesting history lesson about Hilleman who was instrumental in creating many of the vaccines we use. And Autism's False Prophets. I had to tap out of the second book. He implies that the scientist who pushed to remove thimerosal from vaccines made a mistake in trying to exercise the precautionary principle. He then offers the history of breast implants and the class action lawsuits they brought on as proof the masses can't handle the truth. And so you can't actually practice the precautionary principle because it could reduce vaccine uptake and cause harm. The condescension of this implied argument is just too much for me. As far at the breast implants go...perhaps they should have done the studies that proved they were safe before launching the industry.
Re the CDC document you link to, the second section of the Summary claims: "Hospitalization rates among unvaccinated adults were approximately triple those of vaccinated adults." It's not clear how they arrive at that 3X estimate.
Dr Jack, do you know if infection w/ SARS-COV2 in the unvaxed, is causing as many or as severe of histopathological findings as are being seen by pathologists who are looking at post vaccine post mortum tissues? If so, would it still be reasonable for the unvaxxed, prior infected and recovered, to take prophylactic scripts and or supplements this coming fall and winter? Or would natural immunity to omicron be enough?
Addendum ~ "Happy Share, One of My Fav's Of All Time ~ A Million In Motion" 6 min video Fall 2021. https://youtu.be/Hb0Gjb-_wSU
The average age of hospitalized patient is creeping up so I'm guessing we're seeing a bias of older patients who are more likely to be hospitalized also being more likely to be boosted. Not exactly a glowing commendation in any case.
The CDC paper didn't appear to break down rates by age AND vaxx status, but let me know if I missed something.
I see it often said that the vaxed have negative efficacy now from the vaccines. One argument to explain this has been that the vax helped prevent some infections/hospitalisations initially but then it wore off, and that as the comparator is the unvaxed, the vaxed are merely catching up with the infections they didn’t get back when all the unvaxed got them. Is this therefore negative efficacy, or is it just zero efficacy after a few months, because the only comparator we have is the unvaxed who now have their own natural immunity?
But wait.
Is this only Offit's way of extorting whatever he wants from the vaccine manufacturers?
Stay tuned!
(Big hint: yes.)
However, I doubt Offit will ever replace Mercola for #1 misinformer.
ROTFLMAO. Awful Offit finally met a vaccine he didn't like? What's next? The earth really is flat? Hollow?
Geert VanDen Bossche (vax industry insider) has been warning about ADE for around two years
Interesting to see Offit facing up to the facts
I’m surprised that Offit still has remaining “good will” and a job.
Not sure its the ideal comparison as boosters are more likely to be had by the most vulnerable people.
But have a look at this dataset from the ONS in the UK:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland
Table 6 is the one to look at as it stratifies by age and breaks out the covid deaths separately.
Calculating person years per covid death (Column C/ColumnD) and also a combined result for 2nd dose after 21 days yields some results that are... interesting. Going to have to look again tomorrow after some coffee...
I don't understand how "fully vaccinated" is being defined in these two sentences. I thought that the CDC defines fully vaccinated as having received a booster. If so, it doesn't make sense that 48.6% of the country's fully vaccinated population is boosted.
"According to CDC, as of Sep. 07, 108,953,688 Americans had received a booster, or 48.6 percent of the country's fully vaccinated population."
"Also according to CDC, 75.5% of adult Americans have been “fully vaccinated”.
Elegantly stated, Dr. Lyons-Weiler: "Perhaps (and I hope) Offit’s immunity from the SARS-CoV-2 infection will have provided him with diverse B- and T-cells to antigens other than the spike protein." Thank you!