when it was first announced that Pfizer & Moderna Covid-19 vaccinations were be approved with (EUA) emergency use authorization and the process of making these vaccines was a BRAND NEW PROCESS dealing with mRNA… I was skeptical, especially since Dr Fauci had been so adamant about the use of Hydroxychloroquine use in treating Covid-19. Hydroxychloroquine has been approved for human use for around 50 yrs… but Fauci was adamant about not using this medication because it had not been in a double blind clinical study for treating COVID-19…. these studies can take upwards of a decade. From what I had read, Hydroxychloroquine seem to show some success in combination with several other medications especially when pts were treated early in the disease process.
But, Fauci seemed to have jumped on and supported these vaccines from a never before used process and clinical trials of maybe just a couple of months.
Fauci seemed to try to put forward the image of “following the science”, but he was all over the map… don’t need a mask…. need one mask…. need two masks. He seemed to support cities/counties/states shutting down to all but very essential services, but here we are a year later and New York followed Fauci’s recommendations where states like FL did not and FL had fewer deaths per 100,000 than NY.
Personally/professionally I decided that we were going to wait until the J&J/Jansen vaccine got approval… because it is made using the same process that has been used for decades making the flu vaccine and it is a ONE AND DONE – SINGLE SHOT…. we got ours last Saturday. By the end of the month, the two weeks it takes for antibodies to develop … we should be fully protected.
While the clinical studies of J&J/Jansen vaccine showed only a 65% effectiveness, the clinical trials for this vaccine was much later than those for Moderna/Pfizer vaccines and the pts within the J&J/Jansen clinical trials had been exposed to the Brazilian and African COVID-19 mutations… which the other vaccines did not. BUT.. in the J&J/Jansen clinical trial… THERE WERE NO DEATHS within the clinical trials pts.
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Thank you. My impulse was to not get the vaccine (would the others really be a vaccine? Do they change our very dna?
But now I will reevaluate although vaccines generally make me very ill and going through that again scares me. Not gotten flu or others at the advice of my doctors and haven’t gotten the flu either.