The Florida Department of Health (Department) is reminding health care providers of the importance of remaining up to date with current literature related to COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, and the importance of providing patients with informed consent.
On
August 22, 2024, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved and authorized updated versions of mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. The FDA approved the vaccine for people 12 and older and provided emergency use authorization for children 6 months to 11 years old. The stated target of these boosters is the Omicron variant which is not causing a
significant number of infections.
The most recent booster
approval was granted in the absence of booster-specific clinical trial data performed in humans. Furthermore, this booster does not protect against the currently
dominant strain, accounting for approximately 37% of infections in the United States. There are currently limited data to inform whether these boosters offer any substantial protection against the virus and subsequent
circulating variants. Although randomized clinical trials are normally used to approve therapeutics, the federal government has not required COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to demonstrate their boosters prevent hospitalizations or death from COVID-19 illness.
Comment: There are a number of obvious possible sources not mentioned, including the US biowarfare laboratories - such as Fort Detrick which was the likely source of Covid - meat which has been contaminated, the polluted water supply, or a person recently vaccinated with the bird flu vaccine who may be shedding the virus: