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dalton99a

(81,065 posts)
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 01:22 AM Apr 2021

Don't worry about coronavirus variants overpowering vaccines, experts say

https://news.yahoo.com/dont-worry-about-coronavirus-variants-overpowering-vaccines-experts-say-201248029.html

Don't worry about coronavirus variants overpowering vaccines, experts say
Alexander Nazaryan
Mon, April 12, 2021, 3:12 PM

WASHINGTON — Over the weekend, seemingly troubling news emerged from Israel, with a study suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech was less effective against B.1.351, a variant first encountered in South Africa. One headline called the study “alarming.”

Meanwhile, two of the New York Post’s most-read stories as of Monday morning were about a 31-year-old woman in New York City who tested positive for the coronavirus three weeks after receiving the vaccine and a 52-year-old man who ended up in the hospital with COVID-19, despite having also been vaccinated.

Together, such reports in the mainstream media of “breakthrough” infections of the vaccinated can foster the inaccurate narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are not effective, especially against new strains of the coronavirus, some of which had not yet emerged when those vaccines were being developed.

“The mainstream media want to scare people,” Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a pioneer of vaccine science, told Yahoo News. That criticism appears to be bolstered by a recent paper by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote and his colleagues, which found that 91 percent of media reporting in the U.S. is “negative in tone,” even when news about the pandemic is actually encouraging.

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Don't worry about coronavirus variants overpowering vaccines, experts say (Original Post) dalton99a Apr 2021 OP
Drudge was the extreme example of irresponsible reporting FBaggins Apr 2021 #1

FBaggins

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1. Drudge was the extreme example of irresponsible reporting
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 07:15 AM
Apr 2021

I can’t find it, but he was running something like “Pfizer Jab Can’t Stop Safrican Variant!”

Though the underlying story said nothing of the sort.

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