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Covid-19 booster shot likely needed within 12 months, Pfizer's CEO says
Denise Chow
·2 min read
People
are likely to need a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within a year of
getting fully vaccinated and may subsequently need annual shots to
protect against the coronavirus, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Thursday.
Pfizer
and its German partner, BioNTech, are studying how long the vaccines'
protective immunity will last. Their findings will guide whether
additional booster shots will be necessary.
Bourla said it's "likely" that a booster will be needed within 12 months of the initial two-shot regimen.
"It is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus," Bourla told CNBC on Thursday during an event with CVS Health.
Pfizer and BioNTech said this month that data from clinical trials suggest that their vaccine offers high levels of protection
six months after the second dose, with no serious safety concerns. The
vaccine was also found to be effective against several known coronavirus
variants, including one that was first reported in the U.K. and another
that was thought to have emerged in South Africa.
In
an interview Wednesday with CNBC, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the
company is working on a shot that would combine protection against
Covid-19 and the seasonal flu. It will be especially important over the
next year, he said, as new variants of the coronavirus emerge and
circulate around the world.
"What we're trying to do at Moderna,
actually, is to get a flu vaccine in the clinic this year and then
combine a flu vaccine to a Covid vaccine so that you only have to get
one boost at your local CVS store, at your GP every year, that will
protect you to a variant of concern against Covid and a seasonal flu
strain," Bancel said.
Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter proudly admitted in June 2020 she is a radical, anti-white Marxist.
“We actually do have an ideological frame,” Cullors said. “Myself and
Alicia are particularly trained organizers — we are trained Marxists.
We are super versed on ideological theories…”
Black Lives Matter is seeking to transform America by defunding the
police, dismantling capitalism, ‘destroying the patriarchy,’ breaking
down the nuclear family unit, emptying prisons, redistributing wealth in
the form of reparations among other far-left objectives.
Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have destroyed small businesses, targeted churches and razed buildings to the ground.
Their goal is to bring chaos where there is order, fan the flames of class warfare and demonize Christians and conservatives.
Black Lives Matter-Antifa mobs caused over one billion dollars in damages in cities across America since May. In Minneapolis alone Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings.
A secluded mini-compound tucked into L.A.’s rustic and semi-remote
Topanga Canyon was recently sold for a tad more than $1.4 million to a
corporate entity that public records show is controlled by Patrisse
Khan-Cullors, 37-year-old social justice visionary and co-founder of the
galvanizing and, for some, controversial Black Lives Matter movement.
Kahn-Cullors, a UCLA and USC graduate married about five
years ago to social activist (and amateur boxer) Janaya Khan, co-founder
of Black Lives Matter Toronto, created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in
2013 in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the 2012 shooting
of Trayvon Martin. Since then, the largely decentralized movement has
been at the influential forefront on issues of police brutality and
racially motivated violence against Black people, particularly in
the wake of George Floyd’s killing last summer that sparked massive
protests across the United States and around the globe. Kahn-Cullors’ published “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” in 2018.
A 70-year-old woman was left with a concussion, severely battered
face and other injuries after being assaulted by a fellow passenger on a
Metro bus in Eagle Rock last week, her son told The Eastsider.
The Mexican American victim was profiled as Asian by her
attacker, who hurled a racial epithet used against people of Chinese
descent before attacking the grandmother as she got off the bus to go
grocery shopping, according to the son, who gave his name only as Pete.
Los Angeles police say they are still gathering information on the
incident. But a department spokesperson confirmed 23-year-old Yasmine
Beasley was arrested following the incident at about 1:30 p.m. Friday at
the corner of Figueroa Street and La Loma Road.
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found about 5,800 cases
of COVID-19 infections among people who have been fully vaccinated in
the U.S., according to a new report.
CDC officials tell Yahoo
Life that as of April 13, about 5,800 breakthrough COVID-19 infections —
meaning someone who was fully vaccinated against the virus still
contracts COVID-19 — have been reported to the CDC among the more than
66 million Americans who have been fully vaccinated. Of those, 396 (or 7
percent) required hospitalization and 74 people (0.0001 percent) died.
Overall,
it amounts to a rate of 0.008 percent of Americans who have been fully
vaccinated against COVID-19 that have gotten the infection.
A doctor collects a sample with a nasal swab to test a woman for COVID-19. (Getty Images)
“COVID-19
vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the pandemic
under control. All of the available vaccines have been proven effective
at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations and deaths,” CDC
spokesperson Kristen Nordlund tells Yahoo Life in a statement. “However,
like is seen with other vaccines, we expect thousands of vaccine
breakthrough cases will occur even though the vaccine is working as
expected.”
Nordlund adds, “To date, no unexpected patterns have been identified in case demographics or vaccine characteristics.”
Breakthrough
infections were reported in people of all ages eligible for
vaccination, but a little over 40 percent of the infections were in
people age 60 and up. Other important information to note:
29 percent of the vaccine breakthrough infections were reported as asymptomatic.
65 percent of the people experiencing a breakthrough infection were female.
“The
male-female differences that we’re observing ... no one has a good idea
as to why it’s occurring,” Dr. Stanley H. Weiss, professor at Rutgers
New Jersey Medical School and the Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health, tells Yahoo Life. “We
do know that men and women’s immune systems do tend to react
differently.” Weiss says it could simply be “by chance” or may be that
women are more likely to seek medical care when they have a breakthrough
infection. “Were fewer men detected because of that or something
biological? We don’t know the answer to that,” he says.
The CDC is
monitoring the breakthrough infections and collecting data on them. The
agency has also developed a national COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough
database where state health department investigators can enter, store
and manage data for cases in their jurisdiction.
News of any
COVID-19 infections after a person has been fully vaccinated against the
coronavirus can be frustrating and even scary, but doctors say it’s to
be expected.
“No one expected the vaccine to be 100 percent
efficacious,” infectious disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar
at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Yahoo Life.
“Breakthrough cases are still extremely rare and often without any major
consequence.”
The efficacy rate of each COVID-19 vaccine authorized for use in the U.S. varies. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 95 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections, the Moderna vaccine is 94.1 percent effective,
and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — the administration of which is
currently on “pause” due to blood clotting concerns — is 66.3 percent effective.
“These
vaccines are 95 percent effective at best,” Dr. William Schaffner, an
infectious disease specialist and professor at Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. “These are wonderfully effective
vaccines, but nothing in life is perfect — except maybe my wife.”
Dr.
Thomas Russo, professor and chief of infectious disease at the
University at Buffalo in New York, tells Yahoo Life that the findings
are “not surprising” and points out that there is a difference between
clinical trials and the real-world use of the vaccine. “Clinical trials
excluded people who are immunocompromised, and those patients have
immune systems that don’t function as well as people in the general
population,” he says. As a result, the vaccine is often not as effective
in them, Russo says.
Schaffner agrees. “We’re now vaccinating
very, very frail people and people who are immunocompromised — you’re
more likely to have breakthrough cases because their protection won’t be
as complete as a normal healthy person’s protection is,” he says.
Worth noting: The CDC did not disclose details about the health of the people who had breakthrough infections.
But
Russo says the news underscores the importance of continuing to follow
COVID-19 prevention recommendations, regardless of your vaccination
status. He stresses, though, that it doesn’t mean these protocols will
be in place forever. “Masks and social distancing are still important in
the community until more people are vaccinated,” he says. “Once we can
get these cases down, we’re going to be able to step away from public
health measures.”
Adalja says it’s smart for public health
officials to track these breakthrough infections to try to get more
answers. “It’s important to study the breakthrough cases to understand
if the vaccine took in those individuals to better characterize this
very low risk,” he says.
Ultimately, doctors urge people to stay
calm and focus on the bigger picture. That is, the vaccine is highly
effective at preventing COVID-19 infections in those who have been fully
vaccinated. Breakthrough infections “didn’t happen in 99.93 percent of
cases,” Adalja says.
“Don’t panic,” Schaffner says. “Everybody,
please take a deep breath. Vaccines profoundly reduce your risk of
getting an infection, but it’s not zero.”
12 Fully-Vaccinated Los Angeles Residents Infected With Covid-19, Says County Health Official
Tom Tapp
·2 min read
On Wednesday, in response to a query from Deadline, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer confirmed that at least a dozen local residents had been infected with Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated.
“Yes,
it is possible to test positive for the virus after being fully
vaccinated,” Ferrer reported. She estimated that the number of
post-vaccination infections is likely “very small.”
Ferrer
said all of the so-called “breakthrough cases” of infection detected in
the county occurred in long-term care facilities. In all, there were 12
fully-vaccinated people who were infected. Four of them were residents
of those facilities, and eight were staff.
“I’m sure there are
other places [in L.A. County] because I know across the country that
there have been more [breakthrough] cases,” Ferrer said before noting
the detected cases in long-term care facilities weren’t likely because
of any lack of precaution but rather because the data from those
environments is better.
“This is one place where we have really good data in part because of our strong partnership with long-term care facilities.”
Ferrer
also added, “The vast majority of people who have tested positive after
being fully vaccinated are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms.
“Here in L.A. County we don’t know of anybody who has been hospitalized or — unfortunately — passed away.”
But,
as for other local breakthrough cases of Covid-19 infection, the data
is very incomplete, she said making an overall assessment “a hard
question to answer.”
Earlier on Wednesday, 39 breakthrough cases were reported in Sonoma County over the course of the past 2 1/2 months, according to county officials.
Man suspected of pointing gun, throwing pizza at Domino's workers over toppings dispute dodges assault charge
Minnesota man reportedly facing disorderly conduct citation
The Minnesota man suspected of drawing a gun and throwing pizza slices at Domino's employees because
he was dissatisfied with his order is facing a disorderly conduct
citation, rather than assault charges, according to a report.
Rochester
police responded to a disturbance at a local Domino’s where an employee
alleged that Victor Fortner, 34, threatened workers with a gun.
Woman who fired into Burger King drive-thru window over wait time arrested: report
The suspect is facing charges of attempted first-degree murder
Sometimes, it’s better to just wait in line.
Police in Tennessee arrested a woman they believe was responsible for a violent incident at a Burger Kingdrive-thru
last month. According to reports, the woman is believed to be the same
person who allegedly fired a gun through the drive-thru window because
the wait was too long.
Police have arrested Keona Jackson after identifying her as the woman who fired the gun into the Memphis restaurant, Fox 13
reports. She has reportedly been charged with two counts of
first-degree murder and one count of employment of a firearm over
commission of a felony. According to the Shelby County jail’s website, Jackson was taken into custody on Monday.
The alleged crime occurred at a BK on Winchester Road on March 30, and the Memphis Police Department discussed details on Facebook soon after.
Witnesses
reportedly said that the woman, who had yet to be identified at the
time, was upset at how long she the wait at the drive-thru was. She
allegedly exited her vehicle and approached the window, where she began
arguing with one of the workers.
The
suspect then reportedly returned to her vehicle (which someone else was
driving) and retrieved a handgun. Authorities say she returned to the
drive-thru window, leaned inside the restaurant and fired the gun
several times.
The
woman then returned to the car, which fled the scene. Authorities said
that the Burger King workers escaped the restaurant through a rear door
and were unharmed.
Yesterday, the Windsor, VA Police
Department was notified that they were being sued by Army Second
Lieutenant Caron Nazario for a December traffic stop that turned ugly.
As reported by 100 Percent Fed Up –
In the recorded traffic stop, Army Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario, who
is Black and Latino can be seen in uniform as a Latino police officer
attempts to convince Nazario to get out of his vehicle. The police
officer, who appears to be frustrated after driving a mile behind
Nazario’s vehicle with their lights flashing, is then confronted with a
belligerent driver who refuses to exit his vehicle.
Instead of complying with the request of the Latino police officer, a
defiant Nazario tells him, “I’ve not committed any crime.” The two
Windsor police officers can be seen drawing their guns and ordering him
to get out. “I’m honestly afraid to get out,” Nazario tells them. One
of the police officers replied, “Yeah dude, you should be.”
Instead of complying, Nazario chooses instead, to repeatedly push the
limits of the police officers. The Windsor Police officer uses pepper
spray to subdue the subject. They handcuff him and then search his
vehicle, a Nazario asks, “Why am I being treated like this—Why? This is
really messed up! You know this is f**ed up!” The police offer explains,
“Because you’re not cooperating.”
The video has now gone viral on social media, as the typical BLM
radicals make the traffic stop into a racial crisis. Qasim Rashid, a
popular far-left agitator on Twitter tweeted a video of the incident,
calling it “Horrific police violence.”
What the BLM activists and our dishonest media is not telling
everyone is that Nazario refused to stop for over ONE MILE, that he had
no visible tag on his license plate, that he was NON-COMPLIANT when he
did stop and that he had a GUN in plain view!
News Max host Greg Kelly, called Nazario a “bad lieutenant” and
revealed that he had a loaded gun by his leg on the floor of the vehicle
in the front seat. Of course, the media and the BLM hysteria messengers
forgot to mention that part!
ewsmax host Greg Kelly tweeted about strict policies that most Army
bases have about storing weapons, asking which base he was coming from
and if he had been in compliance or non-compliance with the Army bases
rules, as he carried a gun on the floor of his vehicle.
While
the U.S. reaches a record number of vaccinations given in a single day,
front-line medical workers in Michigan worry about a fourth wave as
hospitals fill up with new coronavirus cases.
The U.S. is considering sending money to Central Americans in an attempt to stem the flow of migration.
A senior White House official told Reuters the program would aim to address the economic woes pushing people to move.
There's been a steady increase in arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
Some 168,000 people were picked up by U.S. Border Patrol agents in March - the highest monthly tally in twenty years.
Roberta
Jacobson, the White House's southern border coordinator, said the
potential program would be targeted at people in Guatemala, Honduras and
El Salvador.
She told Reuters: "We're looking at all of the
productive options to address both the economic reasons people may be
migrating, as well as the protection and security reasons."
Republicans have already hit out at the idea.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday that the idea was insulting to millions of Americans out of work.
Republicans
also blame the recent surge in arrivals on Biden's decision to reverse
former President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies.
Biden
has instead called for $4 billion in development aid to Central America
over four years to address the underlying causes of migration.
On Friday, the White House requested $861 million from Congress for that effort in Biden's first annual budget proposal.
Video Transcript
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The US is considering sending money to central Americans in an attempt
to stem the flow of migration. A senior White House official told
Reuters the program would aim to address the economic woes pushing
people to move. There's been a steady increase in arrivals at the US
Mexico border in recent months.
Some 168,000 people were picked up
by US border patrol agents in March. The highest monthly tally in 20
years. Roberta Jacobson, the White House's southern border coordinator
said the potential program will be targeted at people in Guatemala,
Honduras, and El Salvador.
She told Reuters, "We're looking at all
of the productive options to address both the economic reasons people
may be migrating, as well as the protection and security reasons."
Republicans have already hit out at the idea. House Minority leader
Kevin McCarthy said Friday that the idea was insulting to millions of
Americans out of work.
Republicans blame the recent surge in
arrivals on Biden's decision to reverse former President Donald Trump's
hardline immigration policies. Biden has instead called for $4 billion
in development aid to Central America over four years to address the
underlying causes of migration. On Friday, the White House requested 861
million from Congress for that effort, in Biden's first annual budget
proposal.
Black Lives Matter militants stormed the Iowa State Capitol, in a
move that would be described as an “insurrection” if conducted by people
on the right.
The militant leftists forced their way into the building to stage a die-in.
This was horrible.
A female postal service worker was brutally beaten in broad daylight in Flint, Michigan by several women over delayed stimulus checks.
The women are filmed pummeling the woman and pulling her hair.
Police say the woman is in good condition and an arrest was made in the beating.
According to the video, the white female is a USPS postal worker and
she is attacked by multiple African American women regarding “stimulus
money”:
North Carolina sites halt J&J shots after adverse reactions
BRYAN ANDERSON
RALEIGH,
N.C. (AP) — North Carolina health officials said on Thursday that they
stopped administering Johnson & Johnson doses at a mass vaccination
site in Raleigh and at clinics in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill after at
least 26 people experienced adverse reactions, including fainting.
Four people were taken to hospitals for further examination, and state and federal health officials are reviewing the matter.
The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that reactions
like fainting are not uncommon after someone is vaccinated, though it is
reviewing reports of adverse reactions in North Carolina and three
other states. All those taken to hospitals are expected to recover,
local health officials said.
“Right now, we are working with NC
DHHS (the state Department of Health and Human Services) and the CDC to
further evaluate the situation to assure everyone is confident in the
continued safety of our vaccine operations,” said a statement from Kim
McDonald, medical director at Wake County Human Services.
Wake
County announced Thursday evening that it stopped administering Johnson
& Johnson doses at PNC Arena after 18 of the more than 2,300 people
vaccinated experienced adverse reactions, including four individuals who
were taken to hospitals and are expected to be released.
The
decision to halt J&J vaccines at PNC Arena was made with less than
two hours of appointments left to be administered. People who were at
the site were then given Pfizer vaccines or allowed to reschedule their
existing J&J appointments.
A pair of clinics in Hillsborough
and Chapel Hill also elected to stop offering the Johnson & Johnson
vaccine and are in the process of rescheduling 350 appointments for
people who were set to receive their single-dose J&J shot on Friday.
In
Colorado on Wednesday, 11 people saw adverse reactions after receiving a
J&J shot. Two of those individuals were taken to a hospital.
CDC
spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said it is aware of adverse reactions in
some people who received the vaccine shots in Iowa, Colorado, Georgia
and North Carolina. Those reactions include dizziness, light headedness,
feeling faint and rapid breathing.
She said the CDC is working
with state and local officials to evaluate the issues and has performed
vaccine lot analyses and not found reasons for concern. The CDC is not
telling health departments to stop vaccinations.
“COVID-19
vaccines are safe and effective,” she said. “Many people don’t have any
side effects after COVID-19 vaccines, but some people will have pain or
swelling at the injection site or fever, chills, or a headache. These
typically don’t last long and are signs that your body is building
protection.”
David Wohl, an infectious disease expert at UNC
Health who oversees the UNC vaccination sites, said between eight and 14
of the roughly 1,250 J&J vaccine recipients it injected on Thursday
fainted after receiving the shot, though nobody was taken to a
hospital.
Because of the timing of the day in which the adverse
reactions started occurring, Wohl said UNC Health completed all shots
for people who had appointments on Thursday at the two sites.
While
his department is still working to analyze the source of the problem,
he does not believe most of the cases stem from allergic reactions to
the vaccine.
“I'm just concerned that if we have as many people
fainting as we do, we need to understand why,” Wohl said. “Everyone that
I've seen really doesn't have an underlying medical history that's of
concern, but many of them do report having fainted previously.”
Johnson
& Johnson, the vaccine's manufacturer, said in a statement that
“there is no greater priority than the safety and well-being of the
people we serve. When we receive reports of adverse events in
individuals receiving our medicines and vaccines, we collect necessary
information and carefully assess the events.”
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Associated Press writer Mike Stobbe in New York contributed to this report.
Across
the country states are expanding their COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to
16 and 17-year-olds. Pfizer announced its vaccine is safe and effective
in preventing the illness in students aged 12 and older.
Thirteen people at a COVID-19vaccination
site in Colorado had adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson
vaccine on Wednesday — shutting down operations for the day, a report
said.
Officials did not disclose the types of
reactions suffered by less than 1 percent of the more than 1,700 people
given shots at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, The Denver Gazette reported.
The
vaccination effort was being sponsored by the state and Centura Health.
More than 600 people with appointments Wednesday were unable to receive
their vaccinations after the early closure.
"We
followed our protocols and in an abundance of caution, made the
decision — in partnership with the state — to pause operations for the
remainder of the day," Centura Health officials said in the statement
obtained by the newspaper.
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