Vaccine Scientist Says It's Not Feasible To Keep Vaccinating People

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"We can't vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It's not sustainable or affordable," Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and head of the UK's Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, told The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday."

I had thought about this, in fact mentioned it in one of the threads. Are they going to suggest boosters every time a new strain presents itself? Here are more excerpts from the article since for some reason, the link is not working (this has happened several times lately and I don't know why) :unsure:

"Pollard also stressed the "need to target the vulnerable" going forward, rather than administering doses to everyone age 12 and older. More data is needed to ascertain "whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses," he said. Pollard also said he thought further evidence was needed before offering a fourth Covid-19 shot to people in the UK, which is currently rolling out third shots to healthy people 18 and older, and at-risk people 16 and older.

In a separate interview with Sky News on Tuesday, Pollard also cited the glaring unevenness of vaccine rollouts across the world.

"It's just not -- from a global perspective -- affordable, sustainable or deliverable to give fourth doses to everyone on the planet every six months," Pollard said. "And remember that, today, less than 10% of people in low-income countries have even had their first dose, so the whole idea of regular fourth doses globally is just not sensible."

Israel has already begun its rollout of a fourth vaccine dose, offering it to all medical workers and people 60 and older as of Monday."
 

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It is my responsibility to try to keep myself alive and healthy. Every time I get a vaccine, or any medical treatment, I can't twist myself into knots worrying about whether every single human being on the planet can "afford" the same thing, or whether it's available in their country. I would like to see everyone on earth vaccinated; that would probably put an end to the pandemic. But when has that ever happened, in human history?

If every new strain requires a booster, then that's what it requires. We do it with flu, which is a less deadly disease, so why not Covid?
 
Sunny said:
It is my responsibility to try to keep myself alive and healthy. Every time I get a vaccine, or any medical treatment, I can't twist myself into knots worrying about whether every single human being on the planet can "afford" the same thing, or whether it's available in their country. I would like to see everyone on earth vaccinated; that would probably put an end to the pandemic. But when has that ever happened, in human history?

If every new strain requires a booster, then that's what it requires. We do it with flu, which is a less deadly disease, so why not Covid?
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"We do it with the flu?" When has a flu shot been recommended every 3-6 months?
 
Sunny said:
It is my responsibility to try to keep myself alive and healthy. Every time I get a vaccine, or any medical treatment, I can't twist myself into knots worrying about whether every single human being on the planet can "afford" the same thing, or whether it's available in their country. I would like to see everyone on earth vaccinated; that would probably put an end to the pandemic. But when has that ever happened, in human history?
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That's selfish and scientifically short-sighted. The Omnicron variant came out of undervaccinated Africa. Now there's IHU that just emerged from Cameroon.
 
Alligatorob said:
Of course, but do you know what we are paying? $ per dose?
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the dose( shot) is been bought by taxpayers so "free"
the charge usually to insurance or back to government ( taxpayers) is the administration cost of store / pharmacy etc to give shot....

I saw a news report that charges ranged from $45 to 250 for over head costs.
Below @ Pink Biz refers to shot cost not the administering cost.... they ask for insurance to bill insurance if you say NO insurance they bill HHS
 
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AnnieA said:
That's selfish and scientifically short-sighted. The Omnicron variant came out of undervaccinated Africa. Now there's IHU that just emerged from Cameroon.
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Huh? It's "selfish" to try to take care of my own health and keep myself alive? Does that apply to food also? There are people starving in the world, we all know that. Mostly, all we can do about it is donate to those organizations that are trying to provide food to them. Are we supposed to stop eating, ourselves, because it's selfish to eat anything?

If there isn't enough money to vaccinate everybody in the world, we can probably help by donating to that also. But if a booster is needed to keep myself alive and healthy, that's got to be my first priority. Sort of what the airlines tell you: if you're traveling with a child, or an adult who can't put on their own mask, put your own on first; then you can help them.
 
Sunny said:
Huh? It's "selfish" to try to take care of my own health and keep myself alive? Does that apply to food also? There are people starving in the world, we all know that. Mostly, all we can do about it is donate to those organizations that are trying to provide food to them. Are we supposed to stop eating, ourselves, because it's selfish to eat anything?
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The analogy breaks down when you consider that allowing disease to run rampant in impoverished areas of the world--esp the part with the highest HIV population who can't throw off illness--is a very happy petri dish for a mutating virus.
 
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When Dr. Robert Malone said this he was labelled an anti vaxx conspiracy theorist. But it is true.
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I read that somewhere as well. He also said something about the possibility of wide spread vaccinations, rather to just to the vulnerable, actually being part of the problem in the rapid mutations. I'm paraphrasing and I don't even remember where I read that so...
 
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