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LisaL

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3. Delta variant is not a whole new virus.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 16, 2021, 06:40 PM

Jul 2021

It's just a mutant.
WTF would you make a new vaccine? You do realize clinical trials and approval takes years.

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Pfizer vaccine significantly less effective against Delta variant' [View all] womanofthehills Jul 2021 OP

They need to start over from scratch on this FakeNoose Jul 2021 #1

Delta variant is not a whole new virus. LisaL Jul 2021 #3

Pfizer already has a Delta booster shot - ready to go womanofthehills Jul 2021 #13

I would pay to get this booster. Liberal In Texas Jul 2021 #27

Me too. LisaL Jul 2021 #28

How does that strategy deal with people who are not getting vaccinated? Blue_true Jul 2021 #12

I saw there was a British Health report that just being vaccinated, Delta better controlled. TheBlackAdder Jul 2021 #15

Hope scientists from USA have something to say soon, good or bad. Hoyt Jul 2021 #2

I think booster would help. LisaL Jul 2021 #5

It will all disappear now that the warm weather is here..... AZ8theist Jul 2021 #4

I want to hear everything. I got the Pfizer. UTUSN Jul 2021 #6

Very unlikely other vaccines would do better than Pfizer. LisaL Jul 2021 #7

Getting whiplash!1 UTUSN Jul 2021 #8

+1, which is my understanding of expectations that it would protect against death and hospitalizatio uponit7771 Jul 2021 #9

That is what was tested, largely to get approval more quicky. Ms. Toad Jul 2021 #18

Robert Malone, the inventor of MRNA said womanofthehills Jul 2021 #10

So far there is no data to suggest Moderna would be any better against delta than Pfizer. LisaL Jul 2021 #11

It does have about 3 times the spike proteins Ms. Toad Jul 2021 #19

The study out of Israel is just that, one study. Other studies had Pfizer efficacy against the delta PortTack Jul 2021 #14

I read the article twice and didn't see any evidence presented that GoodRaisin Jul 2021 #16

855 are the new infections that Israel had on Friday. LisaL Jul 2021 #22

Not really that scary BGBD Jul 2021 #17

The word "significantly" means different things to different people. MineralMan Jul 2021 #20

"language matters" True x1000. Know what the words MEAN. nt Hortensis Jul 2021 #21

Yes, but most people do not think about alternate word meanings. MineralMan Jul 2021 #23

In this case it clearly means widespread. LisaL Jul 2021 #24

That is based on a single study. MineralMan Jul 2021 #25

Oh I do. LisaL Jul 2021 #26

Well said. triron Jul 2021 #31

Too many people expected the vaccines to wipe out the virus entirely, but that was never the case. Yavin4 Jul 2021 #29

Well, we are in the middle of the summer. LisaL Jul 2021 #30

Australia locks people in their homes. Yavin4 Jul 2021 #32

Which is why I said we are opposite of Australia. LisaL Jul 2021 #33

FL (and 7 other states) will be at January levels in 2 weeks. Pobeka Jul 2021 #34