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| South African Scientists Confirm Boosters Offer Little Protection From Omicron |
| 2022-01-20 |
| [ZERO] On Monday, a team of Israeli scientists publicized research showing that even a second booster dose of the Moderna or Pfizer mRNA vaccines doesn't bestow complete immunity from the omicron variant. Now, just days later, their conclusion appears to have been corroborated by a team of South African researchers from the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University who observed seven individuals who had been infected with the omicron variant despite having been "boosted". The patients represented the first known cases of breakthrough infection by omicron, the researchers told the Lancet, the British medical journal where their findings were published. Keep in mind, the South African team used a very different approach. First of all, the patients they examined had only received a single booster dose (unlike with the Israeli study, which focused on patients who had received two doses). |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 FWIW Kids missed a couple days of school last week with a scratchy throat, mild headache. Well enough a couple days later, but by then into the weekend. When wondering if they were able to go to school Monday, daughter tested positive Sunday night. Knowing that the tests are unreliable, yet that a chunk of her class also stayed home and tested , we stayed home, wife and I waiting our turn. Kids had full run of the house, we ate together at the table, sat next to each other for some video game action. If wife and/or I got it, we had nothing to show for it. Wife tested negative same time that Sunday night. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-01-20 16:12 |
| #2 Game over. Moved from the Total Incoherence stage to Total Capitulation. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-20 15:11 |
| #1 The wife and I were fully vaxxed and boosted, got sick and tested positive at the end of 2021. Like a cold with a mild fever. A couple of my double-tapped (not boosted yet) grandkids brought it home from school, but the parents isolated them and only one of four parents is sick today. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-01-20 10:22 |