Are you willing to get the Covid vaccine when offered? (16 Viewers)

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Virus-fighting antibodies capable of blocking the omicron variant persist four months after a third shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, according to a new study.


The study, which was published on a preprint server Saturday, gives a first hint about the durability of coronavirus vaccine protection, with a key line of immune defense remaining intact.

The study has not yet been peer-reviewed and will need to be replicated and extended to a longer period.
The laboratory study suggests a fourth shot may not be needed right away — a question that has caused anxiety for people wondering if and when they would need to get another booster……

 
Optimus Prime said:
Virus-fighting antibodies capable of blocking the omicron variant persist four months after a third shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, according to a new study.


The study, which was published on a preprint server Saturday, gives a first hint about the durability of coronavirus vaccine protection, with a key line of immune defense remaining intact.

The study has not yet been peer-reviewed and will need to be replicated and extended to a longer period.
The laboratory study suggests a fourth shot may not be needed right away — a question that has caused anxiety for people wondering if and when they would need to get another booster……

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The abstract of the study.

www.biorxiv.org

Neutralization of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 by 2 or 3 doses of BNT162b2 vaccine

We report the antibody neutralization against Omicron SARS-CoV-2 after 2 and 3 doses of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. Vaccinated individuals were serially tested for their neutralization against wild-type SARS-CoV-2 (strain USA-WA1/2020) and an engineered USA-WA1/2020 bearing the Omicron spike...
www.biorxiv.org www.biorxiv.org

Doesn't suggest a fourth dose.

And remember, Antibodies are just an easily measurable immune response.
 
A Boston hospital says it won't consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports.

DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant.

His father, David Ferguson, is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son who, he told CBS Boston, "has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he's been pushed to the limit."

DJ's family says he was at the front of the line to receive a transplant but hospital policy stipulates that he's no longer eligible because he hasn't received the vaccination.

And David Ferguson says his son simply won't.

"It's kind of against his basic principles -- he doesn't believe in it," David Ferguson says. "It's a policy they are enforcing and so, because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list (for) a heart transplant."............

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Optimus Prime said:
A Boston hospital says it won't consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports.

DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant.

His father, David Ferguson, is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son who, he told CBS Boston, "has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he's been pushed to the limit."

DJ's family says he was at the front of the line to receive a transplant but hospital policy stipulates that he's no longer eligible because he hasn't received the vaccination.

And David Ferguson says his son simply won't.

"It's kind of against his basic principles -- he doesn't believe in it," David Ferguson says. "It's a policy they are enforcing and so, because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list (for) a heart transplant."............

MSN

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We called this months ago. This was an eventual inevitability.
 
Optimus Prime said:
A Boston hospital says it won't consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports.

DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant.

His father, David Ferguson, is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son who, he told CBS Boston, "has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he's been pushed to the limit."

DJ's family says he was at the front of the line to receive a transplant but hospital policy stipulates that he's no longer eligible because he hasn't received the vaccination.

And David Ferguson says his son simply won't.

"It's kind of against his basic principles -- he doesn't believe in it," David Ferguson says. "It's a policy they are enforcing and so, because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list (for) a heart transplant."............

MSN

www.msn.com
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'"We are aggressively pursuing all options, but we are running out of time," David Ferguson said.'

I mean, clearly not all options, given there's one really obvious option they're apparently not willing to pursue there.

I genuinely find it baffling in situations like that; he's willing to have a heart transplant in the first place, a rare procedure (quick google suggests there's something like 3,500 a year, worldwide) with everything that entails (lots of injections, lots of drugs)... but he won't have a vaccination that more than 4 billion people have had, and one that's particularly critical for someone in his condition.

What's the 'basic principle' that would allow acceptance of everything required for a heart transplant, but not a vaccination? It's not a principles thing, it's an irrational belief thing, and it seems very likely to kill him. It's tragic.
 
dtc said:
Integrity and principles he believes in are wonderful things that are going to kill him.

My lawyers have always told me that principle is expensive. I guess this young man is facing the ultimate price for his.
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But if we are being real, the doctors are letting him die. Let's be sensible; they want someone who needs a heart transplant to take a vaccine that has been linked to inflammation of the HEART. Are we so far down this hole that we are OK with letting someone die because they aren't vaccinated and because of the effects, have a greater risk of dying from the vaccine?
 
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jahsoul357 said:
But if we are being real, the doctors are letting him die. Let's be sensible, they want someone who needs a heart transplant to take a vaccine that has been linked to inflammation of the HEART. Are we so far down this hole that we are OK with letting someone die because they aren't vaccinated and because of the effects, have a greater risk of dying from the vaccine?
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Transplant patients have to take immune suppressants. They would be absolutely be a immune compromised person. COVID would in all likelihood kill them if they were unvaccinated, which would be a waste of the heart. That's the policy not because of any political agenda, but because they will be highly vulnerable after the transplant.
 
SWJJ said:
Transplant patients have to take immune suppressants. They would be absolutely be a immune compromised person. COVID would in all likelihood kill them if they were unvaccinated, which would be a waste of the heart. That's the policy not because of any political agenda, but because they will be highly vulnerable after the transplant.
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In all likelihood, the vaccine can kill him
 

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