Semmosta se on tämä ”tiede”. Tällä palstalla nojatuoli virologit tienny nämä asiat jo pari vuotta sitten.
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The thinking was -- let's give a half a dose of the Wuhan strain and a half a dose of what ended up being one of the Omicron strains, BA.4 or BA.5, because that will then give you better protection against these Omicron strains.
Now, that wasn't true. If you looked at both the immunological data and the clinical data, there was no advance with that vaccine. It boosted.
The boosters boosted, but it wasn't any better than what we had because of this original antigenic sin problem. By tethering BA.4/BA.5 to the Wuhan strain in that vaccine, you really selected for an immune response against shared epitopes and not the novel epitopes on BA.4 or BA.5.
Nonetheless, public health officials kept pushing the fact that this was better -- much better, dramatically better. "You need to get this vaccine because it's dramatically better."
Do you say something?
Do you say something, because occasionally I'm given the opportunity to speak to the media, either television or radio or newspaper, whatever -- do you say that? My feeling is you do, because I think it's your obligation to do that, to always sort of point to the truth. But I think in this current climate, which is a divisive climate, you're either on the bus or you're off the bus.