Tuesday, October 19

What Do We Want? More Science. When Do We Want It? NOW!

It's about helping people develop antibodies, not simply herding them into line for another shot.  Let people make educated choices about their own bodies if the science shows they have strong immune systems with CoVid antibodies already:

 “We have precious few levers to pull in public health,” said Marty Makary, a cancer surgeon and health-policy expert at Johns Hopkins University who has been critical of vaccine mandates and urged caution in vaccinating children. “When we use vaccination as a hammer and say it’s the only way to be protected, it has bad outcomes.”

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Kasie Pasquantonio, a 51-year-old nurse at a large teaching hospital in Boston, doesn’t want to get vaccinated because she fears potential long-term side effects of the vaccine. She said she was infected with Covid-19 in December after exposure to an ICU patient.

Ms. Pasquantonio said blood samples she has provided to two clinical studies of immunity among healthcare workers have shown a high level of circulating antibodies. She said she was denied a medical exemption to her employer’s vaccine mandate and faces firing if she doesn’t get vaccinated by early November.

“My frustration is, I have protection, so I should be clumped in with the people who are vaccinated,” Ms. Pasquantonio said. “Covid survivors are not the same as the unvaccinated, but we’re being treated like we are. There should be a third category.”