That’s the message from both Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden and the World Health Organization as COVID-19 cases reach a new seven-day high, and the highly transmittable omicron variant spreads rapidly in the U.S., putting pressure on staffing at hospitals and medical centers.
“The data are encouraging, but still in many respects preliminary,” Fauci told a White House briefing on Wednesday. But he cautioned people not to become complacent. “The risk of severe disease from any circulating variant, including omicron is much, much higher for the unvaccinated,” he said. Fauci has reason to be concerned. Only 62% of the U.S. population is currently fully vaccinated, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, and just 33% of people have received the booster shot. COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from the disease. — Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Biden Those sentiments are echoed by Abdi Mahamud, WHO’s incident manager for COVID-19.
A South African study released Thursday showed that a single-shot booster from Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ, +0.60% vaccine reduced the likelihood of hospitalization by 84%. The study was not peer-reviewed, and was based on results from 69,092 workers who received a second J&J shot between Nov. 15 and Dec. 20.
A separate study published in the New England Medical Journal found that the Pfizer-BioNTech BNTX, +4.65% PFE, +1.00% vaccine was up to 70% effective in preventing hospitalization: Out of 133,437 survey participants, 53,371 were not vaccinated. The addition of a booster may increase effectiveness, the researchers wrote.
Before that 2 shoots shud be sufficient to combat the virus, now encouraging people for a booster once even twice and then will be another booster and again another one and demand booster every quarter. How poor people/countries can survive in this endless deadly cycle?
'our approach' yupper the problem NOT 'our approach' HIS approach. as soon as he treats people with respect and stops misleading and lieing the dim light bulbs might turn on and get a shot. He has made the situation worse and will continue to do so. He is a shyster!
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