Israeli Study Shows Effects of Second Booster Nearly Nil Against Omicron

 

Over the weekend, Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, 63, tested positive for COVID-19. Several days earlier, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, 58, announced he had tested positive.

Both men had been vaccinated as part of Israel’s campaign to administer a “second round of boosters to immune-compromised people in late December, expanding the campaign to its over-60-year-olds and medical staff in January,” according to Reuters.

On Monday, The Times of Israel reported the results of a study conducted at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center which showed that a second booster, in other words a fourth shot of the vaccine, “provides insufficient protection” against Omicron. 

The Times spoke to Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay, a top infectious disease expert at the hospital. 

After reminding them that this data is “preliminary,” she said, “We see an increase in antibodies, higher than after the third dose. 

“However,” she noted, “we see many infected with Omicron who received the fourth dose. Granted, a bit less than in the control group, but still a lot of infections.” (Emphasis mine.)

“The bottom line is that the vaccine is excellent against the Alpha and Delta [variants],” Regev-Yochay said, but “for Omicron it’s not good enough.”

This comes days after The European Medicines Agency, the EU’s drug regulator, “expressed doubt” on whether a fourth dose of the COVID-19 booster should be administered at all.

Last week, Reuters reported that the EMA’s Head of Vaccines Strategy, Marco Cavaleri, “raised concerns that a strategy of giving boosters every four months hypothetically poses the risk of overloading people’s immune systems and leading to fatigue in the population,” the report said.

Cavaleri warned that “repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy.”

Boosters “can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly,” he added.

The WHO issued a statement last week which read in part, “A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.”

So, the Biden Administration has declared a mandate on a drug that even the World Health Organization has reservations about.

Although the U.S. Supreme Court left in place Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers (thanks to Justice Brett Kavanaugh who has turned out to be a major disappointment, but I digress), they blocked the mandate for private businesses of 100 or more employees.

Considering the latest warnings from the WHO and the EMA about possible ill effects on our immune systems and increased fatigue associated with boosters, particularly in light of their proven ineffectiveness against the omicron variant, maybe it’s time to put on the brakes. 

Take the time to run some clinical studies to determine just how these drugs are affecting our immune systems. People should know about the risks before they allow themselves to be injected, shouldn’t they?

 

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