‘As discussed above, natural infection with influenza viruses can induce long-lived immune responses that potentially provide lifelong protection against specific virus strains. It has been reported that the antibody response to vaccination is much more short-lived and that vaccine effectiveness and antibody titres can wane even within a season125,126,127,128,129,130,131. A direct comparison between inactivated virus vaccines and LAIVs in children suggests that antibody responses induced by LAIVs persist significantly longer123. The differences in immune responses to natural influenza virus infection and vaccination are compared in Table 1.’
They always say that achieving natural herd immunity naturally would cost 7 gorillion lives, so lockdowns + vaccination are the only option. Bilbo Gates said so, and Windoze has always been virus free, so who better to decide for us? ¯\(ツ)/¯
I agree that Merck is shit garbage, but this seems more like accidental honesty. Given that the tests are horrendously flawed, they probably just didn't realize they needed to fix the numbers. And with two vaccines already out, decided not to go back and fudge it.
There's as many as 16 billion doses to be made. I think there's room for more than two players in the market. Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca are still going to market.
the immune responses were inferior to those seen following natural infection and those reported for other SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccines.
In other words, their vaccine candidates sucked compared to Pfizer's and Moderna's, so they gave up.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-019-0143-6
‘As discussed above, natural infection with influenza viruses can induce long-lived immune responses that potentially provide lifelong protection against specific virus strains. It has been reported that the antibody response to vaccination is much more short-lived and that vaccine effectiveness and antibody titres can wane even within a season125,126,127,128,129,130,131. A direct comparison between inactivated virus vaccines and LAIVs in children suggests that antibody responses induced by LAIVs persist significantly longer123. The differences in immune responses to natural influenza virus infection and vaccination are compared in Table 1.’
This article isn’t even anti-vaccine.
They always say that achieving natural herd immunity naturally would cost 7 gorillion lives, so lockdowns + vaccination are the only option. Bilbo Gates said so, and Windoze has always been virus free, so who better to decide for us? ¯\(ツ)/¯
I agree that Merck is shit garbage, but this seems more like accidental honesty. Given that the tests are horrendously flawed, they probably just didn't realize they needed to fix the numbers. And with two vaccines already out, decided not to go back and fudge it.
There's as many as 16 billion doses to be made. I think there's room for more than two players in the market. Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca are still going to market.