Good news for everyone this morning - COVID is over.
You literally never have to think about COVID ever again.
More good news: Scientists on Twitter are saying that the vaccines are 99.9% effective and will remain effective for life.
If you are vaccinated and everyone around you will not spread any COVID to anyone. Period.
Wow, lots of angry comments from illiterates, dyslexics and morons who are purposely misinterpreting my tweet.
I meant that if you take your boosters every 6-9 months, you don't have to worry about COVID the way you worried about it in 2020. That is all I said.
I didn't say that the vaccines are are 99.9% effective for life. Stop twisting my words. I said that the vaccines will continue to work - we just have to keep taking them.
DUH! They can't work in the fridge!
If we take them every 6-9 months, we're protected for life.
More misinterpretation of my words. Please re-read my thread carefully.
I did NOT say you cannot transmit the virus.
I said that the disease will be so mild FOR THE VACCINATED, that you will not transmit SEVERE acute respiratory syndrome but a common cold to the vaccinated.
I'm blocking anyone who is sending me abuse. My DMs are filled with attacks by people who did not read my whole thread.
They are writing to my employer @sputnikvaccine asking them if a cat ever worked there.
Some people are just filled with hate and just detest good news.
Where did I say "you never have to think about COVID again?" I said that the vaccinated, frequently boosting person does not have to worry about this.
People like me & others working on vaccines are on it. This is not for you to worry about. It is our work. Let us handle it! 😊
I'm locking this thread because there's just too much negativity.
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This has nothing to do with "overtesting" - since he have no access to any tests whatsoever (no PCRs, no rapid tests) or isolation policies (no tests = no cases = no isolation).
People are just sick in bed with "flu-like symptoms"
I don't know what to tell you.
This dumb idea that systemic T cells will prevent people from getting ill and that once all of us get these magic spike protein-targeting T cells in our blood that disruption will never happen again and that we can go back to treating this like OC43... turned out to be dumb.
Next winter we could absolutely have COVID-19 have a "flu-like" or "less-than-flu" impact on hospitalization & mortality.
It just requires better vaccination (strain match) like the flu, preemptive vaxxing in Autumn (like the flu), vaxxing kids (like the flu)... you get my point
The ideal vaccine would be a recent, strain-matched vaccine that elicits mucosal antibodies & tissue resident B/T cells.
Every step away from that reduces VE:
1. Time since vaccination 2. Strain mismatch 3. Route (systemic vs local antibodies immune cells)
We're at 0/3 today
With 2-year-old vaccines targeting a distant relative of the circulating strain, eliciting systemic antibodies and immune cells, and this vaccine being administered 6-months to a year ago, what we are seeing is a recipe for failure.
Just a reminder to all the "the vaccines were made to prevent severe COVID or death" losers is that moderate COVID has these symptoms, including "deep-vein thrombosis" which is very serious but still considered "moderate" for the trials.
A vaccine for a respiratory virus that does not prevent "pneumonia" is a failure. A vaccine that has does not prevent these listed symptoms is simply a failure and one must reformulate the shot to match the strain, or reconsider dose, schedule or route or the platform itself.
Fortunately for us, the vaccines in the trial prevented moderate COVID-19, as well as "symptomatic COVID-19."
Unfortunately for us, many have decided to shift goalposts & gaslight everyone, claiming that the trials were for severe COVID & death & that everything else is mild.
This is a biphasic disease - a viral phase & an immunopathological one.
There may be 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 virus in the 2nd phase & there is 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 immunopathology in the 1st, & there can be rapid deterioration/cascading of 1st into 2nd, but many only experience one phase.
Biphasic.
The ancestral strain of SARS-CoV-2 had a relatively mild viral phase and a possibly terrible 2nd phase. People felt mild flu-like symptoms in before rapidly deteriorating.
Subsequent variants have resulted in increased virulence, with the 1st phase being more severe, esp. Delta.
Animal challenge trials, even in macaques, show only the first phase. Even unvaccinated animals only experience 7 days of a typical respiratory illness and that's it.