I'm trying to think of a way to describe this without sounding anti-vax.
It feels like the pharmaceutical companies responsible for the vaccines here have mostly stopped developing and are banking in on some culture war shit so they're not particularly interested in developing up to date vaccinations for current strains
I am fully vaxxed and where my mask everywhere by the way. This isn't couched COVID denial
The promise of mRNA in 2020 was that they’d be able to release variant specific boosters in highly compressed timelines (a month I seem to recall)
By the time the bivalent booster came out BA.4 and 5 were minority strains. I got the shot and smoked by covid 2 weeks later when immunity was supposedly at its highest. Still it’s better than nothing.
It’s disturbing that people are foregoing their boosters and the associated benefit even though “vaxxed and relaxed” is our official covid response policy. And now even those are less efficacious than we once thought and are being foregone by people because two shots meant “fully vaccinated”
It’s telling that the majority of covid deaths in the US now are “fully vaccinated” individuals. What does that mean? 2 shots?
Fully vaccinated should mean you're keeping up with your boosters, not just the first two. But I have no idea what it means statistically, that's a good point
I'm trying to think of a way to describe this without sounding anti-vax.
It feels like the pharmaceutical companies responsible for the vaccines here have mostly stopped developing and are banking in on some culture war shit so they're not particularly interested in developing up to date vaccinations for current strains
I am fully vaxxed and where my mask everywhere by the way. This isn't couched COVID denial
The promise of mRNA in 2020 was that they’d be able to release variant specific boosters in highly compressed timelines (a month I seem to recall)
By the time the bivalent booster came out BA.4 and 5 were minority strains. I got the shot and smoked by covid 2 weeks later when immunity was supposedly at its highest. Still it’s better than nothing.
It’s disturbing that people are foregoing their boosters and the associated benefit even though “vaxxed and relaxed” is our official covid response policy. And now even those are less efficacious than we once thought and are being foregone by people because two shots meant “fully vaccinated”
It’s telling that the majority of covid deaths in the US now are “fully vaccinated” individuals. What does that mean? 2 shots?
Fully vaccinated should mean you're keeping up with your boosters, not just the first two. But I have no idea what it means statistically, that's a good point