While the supposed safety issues around CV-19 vax are grotesquely exaggerated, their lack of effectiveness is pretty well established. Notwithstanding this, the manufacturers and some providers keep pimping them to patients, mostly to make money. Repeated doses of related vaccines appears to have diminishing returns at best and may be counter-productive, it may interfere with the development of a stronger, natural immune response. I am not giving medical advice, but if I were a parent I would definitely not give my kid another dose of CV-19 vax and adults should use their judgment about whether there is really any benefit. I am pretty sure there isn’t.
And this study in the VA health system supports that. Persons vaxed and unvaxed with an updated booster were matched and infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths were evaluated. Over the entire follow-up period, effectiveness was slightly negative against infection, about 17% against hospitalization and 27% against death. Pathetic, and worse yet, the effectiveness steadily trended down toward zero over just a few weeks and months. (Annals Article)
And I will conclude by saying one more time that the biggest problem with all these studies remains a failure to adequately account for the effect of CV-19 infections, which basically everyone has had at least once.
“their lack of effectiveness is pretty well established”. So getting the vax has been a waste of time since the start?