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Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness drops after 6 months, study shows | ReutersThe effectiveness of the Pfizer Inc (PFE.N)/BioNTech SE vaccine in preventing infection by the coronavirus dropped to 47% from 88% six months after the second dose, according to data published on Monday that U.S. health agencies considered when deciding on the need for booster shots.
The data, which was published in the Lancet medical journal, had been previously released in August ahead of peer review.
The analysis showed that the vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing hospitalization and death remained high at 90% for at least six months, even against the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
The data suggests that the drop is due to waning efficacy, rather than more contagious variants, researchers said.
mRNA COVID-19 vaccine protection wanes after six months: a wide-scale study of the population of QatarQatar, Israel, and the USA implemented a shorter three-week interval between vaccine doses. These countries have reported waning protection from the mRNA vaccine more greatly than the UK and Canada, which executed a more delayed vaccination schedule. The authors speculate that this may explain the disparity in reports observed between these locations, though this is yet to be confirmed.
A large portion of the vaccinated population is likely to be on the verge of a significant drop-off in vaccine-induced protection against infection with SARS-CoV-2, given the timing of most wide-scale vaccination programs around the world that initiated in early 2021. While this study has found that protection from hospitalization and death is longer-lasting, boosters may be required to reinforce this and avoid protection waning further.
Only for seniors, those with comorbities and HCW...
The Malaysian government will proceed with a heterologous vaccination plan for COVID-19 booster shots, which uses a vaccine different from the original vaccine received by the individual, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin on Monday (Oct 4).
Responding to a question by Beaufort Member of Parliament (MP) Azizah Mohd Dun, the minister said: “We are allowing heterologous vaccination where we mix the vaccines for their booster dose, which is different from the first and second vaccine, to be rolled out this month.”
“Studies on its safety have been done and we’ve been assured that it is safe to be administered,” he added.
More than 87 per cent of the adult population in Malaysia has already received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Sarawak began to give out booster jabs this month, making it the first state to kick off the initiative with a focus on high-risk groups aged 60 and above, as well as those with serious comorbidities.
Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Sinovac are among the vaccines approved for use in Malaysia's national vaccination programme.
Malaysia to allow use of different COVID-19 vaccines as booster jabs: Health minister - CNA
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Philippines to procure 6 million J&J vaccine doses ? Galvez | Philstar.com
For those afraid of needles and side effects. 1 shot tapos.The government is procuring some six million new doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, inoculation czar Carlito Galvez Jr. has announced.
More or less six million doses, one shot," he said in mixed English and Filipino. "We will use this for our allocation in January."
Hindi na dapat binibilang ang mga nagkaka covid. Some are reinfections, while some e gumaling na and is still testing positive sa RT-PCR. And theses are included in the daily covid counts.
Yung covid deaths nalang dapat binibilang now. But even the deaths, mali din.
A lot of hospitals declare those dying in their facilities as death due to covid kahit hindi.
Yung kapatid ng ka-batch ko, died due to a motorcycle accident. The hospital declared it as death due to covid.
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yes the world has to move on
di pwede forever obsessed sa number of cases
tama na ung swab swab
di naman natin binibilang mga may flu, common cold, etc
sarscov2 should be treated like other respiratory viruses
it should fade into the background di ung araw araw headline news
if governments, media, WHO keep maintaining this covid over-awareness, this pandemic is never gonna officially end
Napansin ko since I had covid, may mga pagkain na hindi naman dapat bitter but tastes bitter. Thankful lang ako wala ako SOB kasi si Paulinian friend ko more than 2 mos na may SOB pa
A few months ago, I went sa ER ng SLMC-QC at 2am due to abdominal pain pero hindi ako tinest for covid. They just screened me. Yung ER daw sa baba is for patients with covid symptoms tapos yung chapel sa 2nd floor ginawang ER for non-covid patients so doon ako dinala. Akala ko mamamatay ako sa lamig ng aircon dun. lol
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