52% effective???

Wow I am not impressed

So CDC said the new bivalent shots are 52% effective (and go down from there.) You do know that flu shots given annually running about 30-50% “effective”. It totally depends on who reviews the data and writes up the articles. Depends also on the funding of research and filling the doctors pockets with a little spending cash..

Here is todays latest “sophisticated” data - of course, from newspapers, not journals.

Bivalent COVID-19 Boosters Proving Effective Against XBB, XBB.1.5 Variants, CDC Says

USA Today (1/25, Weintraub) reports, “COVID-19 vaccines and boosters continue to hold up well against the latest viral variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.” The “Omicron variant known as XBB and its subvariant XBB.1.5 have taken over in the U.S. this last month as the cause of more than half of COVID-19 infections.”

Reuters (1/25, Mahobe, Steenhuysen) reports this study “showed that the updated vaccine helped prevent illness in roughly half of the people who had previously received two to four doses of the original COVID-19 vaccine, CDC said.” The findings showed the bivalent vaccine “was 52% effective at preventing infections against BA.5 and 48% against XBB/XBB.1.5 among those aged 18-49,” but “effectiveness fell to 37% against BA.5 and 43% against XBB/XBB.1.5 among those aged 65 years and older.”

So. simply put.. it doesn’t work - still How did they do this study. The only real scientific study would be take a huge group of people.. say 100,000 and randomly give 50% either saline or the shot. That means 50% wouldn’t be protected if it worked .. but on the other hand, it doesn’t follow usually scientific protocols. Would you go to your doctor and truly accept accurate informed consent and sign up for that? —- I didn’t think so.

This is a royal mistake. As for me and my recommendations… I still wouldn’t take the shot. Oh - for naysayers who would tell me, well at least it protected 53% from getting “sick” really? Last time I checked, the early COVID deaths were from using the wrong drugs in the ICU and putting patients with damaged pulmonary alveolar endothelial damage from spike protein.. on positive pressure intubation ventilation. What were they thinking? - They weren’t. Quick pulmonary barotrauma, severe lung edema, hypoxia.. pressures turned up more.. then death. Seems as if the media never reported on this and even amongst we the naysayers, that part of the disasters still isn’t mentioned much. But back in early covid, I was not caring for those patients (our pulmonary ICU docs did).. but I saw the train wrecks in the ICU when rounding on my patients in the ICU (segregated area)

Unless you feel you really have a grasp on the facts we have today and your doctor has done a good job of explaining the risk, benefits, and potential complications.I wouldn’t get the shot.