{"id":248396,"date":"2022-01-16T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248396"},"modified":"2022-01-18T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:25:31","slug":"eu-regulators-who-call-for-end-to-covid-boosters-citing-evidence-strategy-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248396","title":{"rendered":"EU Regulators, WHO Call for End to COVID Boosters, Citing Evidence Strategy Is Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megan Redshaw \u2013 Children\u2019s Health Defense Jan 12, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

European Union drug regulators on Tuesday warned<\/a> frequent COVID boosters could adversely affect the immune system and said there are currently no data<\/a> to support repeated doses.<\/p>\n

This comes a month after EU drug regulators said<\/a> it made sense to \u201cadminister COVID-19 vaccine boosters as early as three months after the initial two-shot regimen,\u201d amid concerns over the Omicron<\/a> variant.<\/p>\n

According to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), continued booster doses<\/a> every four months could pose a risk of overloading people\u2019s immune systems and lead to fatigue.<\/p>\n

Instead, the agency recommended countries space out the intervals between boosters and coordinate their programs<\/a> with the onset of the cold season in each hemisphere \u2014 following blueprints of influenza vaccination<\/a> strategies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy,\u201d the EMA\u2019s head of vaccines strategy, Marco Cavaleri, said<\/a> Tuesday during a press briefing.<\/p>\n

Boosters \u201ccan be done once, or maybe twice, but it\u2019s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly,\u201d Cavaleri said<\/a>. \u201cWe need to think about how we can transition from the current pandemic setting to a more endemic setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cavaleri said more data is needed on the impact of Omicron on vaccines and a better understanding of the evolution of the current wave to decide whether a vaccine specific to the new variant is needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreliminary results from recently published studies are showing that the vaccine effectiveness against the symptomatic disease is significantly reduced for Omicron and tends to wane over time,\u201d Cavaleri said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important that there is a good discussion around the choice of the composition of the vaccine to make sure that we have a strategy that is not just reactive \u2026 and try to come up with an approach that will be suitable in order to prevent a future variant,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Just last month, Cavaleri, speaking on behalf of the EMA, said<\/a> it made sense to administer COVID boosters as early as three months after the initial two-dose regimen due to \u201cextremely worrying\u201d infection numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the current recommendation is to administer boosters preferably after six months, the data currently available support safe and effective administration of a booster as early as three months from completion,\u201d Cavaleri said during a press briefing in December.<\/p>\n

WHO warns repeated boosters not viable strategy against new variants<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC) on Jan. 11 warned<\/a>, \u201ca vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expert group, created by the WHO to assess the performance of COVID vaccines, said providing fresh doses of already existing vaccines<\/a> as new strains of the virus emerge is not the best way to fight a pandemic.<\/p>\n

TAG-CO-VAC said COVID vaccines that can prevent infection and transmission, in addition to preventing severe disease and death are needed and should be developed.<\/p>\n

Until such vaccines are available, and as the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves, the composition of current COVID vaccines may need to be updated, the group said.<\/p>\n

COVID vaccines need to be genetically and antigenically close to the circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants, be more effective in protection against infection, and should elicit an immune response that is broad, strong and long-lasting in order to reduce the need for successive booster doses, TAG-CO-VAC said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s over, people,\u201d Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter and best-selling author, wrote<\/a>. \u201cAside from a few unlucky Israelis, no one is going to receive a fourth dose of the original vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berenson wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone with eyes can see it doesn\u2019t work against Omicron \u2014 and if you haven\u2019t gotten a third dose<\/a>, at this point, why would you? You are getting at most weeks of marginally improved protection for potentially severe side effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead the WHO is now promising\/demanding vaccines based on whatever the dominant Sars-Cov-2 strain is at the moment. That promise is as empty as all the others the health bureaucrats and vaccine companies have made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berenson noted there have been at least five major \u201cvariants of concern\u201d in the last year alone, two of which became globally dominant.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the mRNA vaccines cannot be cooked up and delivered fast enough to match whatever strain of virus becomes dominant,\u201d Berenson said. \u201cCOVID is faster than the scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

UK expert calls for COVID to be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu<\/strong><\/h2>\n

COVID should be treated as an endemic virus similar to the flu and mass vaccination should end after the booster campaign, said<\/a> Dr. Clive Dix, former chairman of the UK\u2019s vaccine task force.<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an endemic<\/a> refers to \u201cthe constant presence and\/or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in a population within a geographic area,\u201d whereas a pandemic is an \u201cout of control<\/a>\u201d epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to analyze whether we use the current booster campaign to ensure the vulnerable are protected if this is seen to be necessary,\u201d he said. \u201cMass population-based vaccination in the UK should now end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calling for a \u201cmajor rethink\u201d of the UK\u2019s COVID strategy, Dix encouraged the ministers to \u201curgently back research into COVID immunity beyond antibodies\u201d to include B-cells and white blood cells, called T-cells.<\/p>\n

Dix said there should be a shift to disease management from viral spreading, and \u201cstopping progression to severe disease in vulnerable groups\u201d should be the future objective.<\/p>\n

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