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gwb, here you go big guy.
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Vaccinations are merely halted until officials present documents relating to contracts signed with vaccine manufacturers. This situation only demonstrates that Uruguay has anti-vax idiots and judges who are fools as well.

Uruguay suspends COVID vaccination for children under 13
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...b0b818-fe41-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay stopped administering coronavirus vaccine to children under age 13 after a judge ordered on Thursday that all inoculations in that age group halt until officials present documents relating to contracts signed with vaccine manufacturers.

Judge Alejandro Recarey issued the injunction under a petition filed by a lawyer who represents a group of anti-vaccine activists.

The vaccinations in children under 13 had been on a voluntary basis, and the government said it will appeal the decision.

Alvaro Delgado, the secretary of the presidency, characterized the halt as a threat to public health.

“We’re convinced that it’s crazy to suspend voluntary vaccination because it has a strong scientific backing,” Delgado said at a news conference.

Vaccinations for those older than 13 will continue, the Health Ministry said in a news release.

The lawyer who sought the injunction, Maximiliano Dentone, represents anti-vaccine activists who have demanded that contracts with vaccine manufacturers be made public.

The judge ordered the vaccination after receiving on Thursday answers to 18 questions about the safety and chemical composition of the vaccines that was signed by Health Minister Daniel Salinas.

Salinas published an open letter after the ruling strongly defending the government’s vaccination plan and criticizing the judge for questioning the safety of vaccines.

“Many Uruguayans under 13 have been able to receive the necessary doses, but others have not,” Salinas wrote.

Dentone said the government had failed to present the contracts with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer that he had requested. The government has said a confidentiality clause in the contract prevents it from sharing the document.

The judge is seeking, among other things, to know whether there are clauses in the contracts that promised civil and criminal immunity due to any adverse effects from the vaccines. Recarey also wants information about the chemical composition of the vaccines.

COVID-19 cases have been on the rise in Uruguay in recent weeks along with other respiratory infections that are typical of winter months.

As of Thursday, 44% of Uruguayan children between ages 5 and 11 and 75% of those between 12 and 14 have received two doses of coronavirus vaccine, according to Uruguay government data.
 
gwb-trading said:
The only protection against catching Omicron Covid again is vaccination --- there is no "natural immunity" -- and even vaccination is only slightly effective against re-infection until the new Omicron boosters are available this fall. Vaccination still protects you from getting severely ill from Omicron. Keep in mind that over 80% of the people hospitalized in ICU in western nations for Covid are still those who are unvaccinated.

You can now get COVID again within 4 weeks because of the new Omicron BA.5 variant, health expert says
https://www.businessinsider.com/cov...-reinfection-contagious-health-experts-2022-7
  • Omicron BA.5 is becoming the dominant coronavirus strain in the US.
  • One expert called it "the worst version of the virus that we've seen."
  • It's four times as resistant to antibodies as other variants and may reinfect people in just weeks.
Health experts in the US and abroad have found that the coronavirus variant currently responsible for most infections in the US,Omicron BA.5, can quickly reinfect people who have protection against the virus.

People who have been vaccinated, received antibody treatments, or developed natural immunity from contracting the virus were previously thought to have a lower risk of getting COVID-19, at least in the months following exposure.

But Andrew Robertson, the chief health officer of Western Australia, told News.com.au that he's seeing people get reinfected with the coronavirus in a matter of weeks.

"What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA.2 and then becoming infected after four weeks," he said. "So maybe six to eight weeks they are developing a second infection, and that's almost certainly either BA.4 or BA.5."

As of Saturday, Omicron BA.5 was responsible for about 53% of COVID-19 infections in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BA.4, another highly contagious Omicron subvariant, accounted for 16.5% of the infections.

Reinfections with BA.5 and BA.4 are typically less severe compared with early COVID-19 infections, Dr. David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Insider. As the virus has evolved to have some resistance to antibodies, immune systems are learning to respond to it without making the body go haywire, he said.

Latest subvariants are extra resistant to antibodies
Like previous Omicron subvariants, BA.5 and BA.4 are known to have mutations that let them evade protection against the virus from COVID-19 vaccines or prior infections.

While the immune system still churns out antibodies to neutralize an infection, that protection tapers off over time. It's not an on-off switch, Dowdy said — but if someone is exposed to a tricky subvariant as their protection is waning, the virus may find an opening.

"Anything that can get around that immune response just a little bit faster has an advantage when a lot of the population is immune," Dowdy said.

A recent study out of Columbia University that has not been peer-reviewed found that the recent BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants were at least four times as resistant to protection against the virus compared with previous variants in the Omicron lineage.

Researchers led by Dr. David Ho, the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, took antibodies from people who received at least three doses of an mRNA vaccine or got two shots and were then infected with Omicron. In a lab study, researchers watched to see how these antibodies performed against Omicron subvariants.

Peter Chin-Hong, a University of California, San Francisco, infectious-disease expert, told the Los Angeles Times that BA.4 and BA.5's "superpower is reinfection."

Meanwhile, Dr. Eric Topol, the director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, San Diego, called BA.5 "the worst version of the virus that we've seen" in a recent blog post because of its ability to evade immunity and increased transmissibility.
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We are now seeing multiple nations reducing the length of "vaccine passports" from "natural infection" to 28 days from three months. This is because "natural protection" from re-infection from Omicron lasts 28 days at most.

Omicron BA.5 strain may shorten COVID immunity from 3 months to 28 days, research shows
https://abc7news.com/ba5-covid-immu...are-you-immune-from-after-having-it/12047575/
 
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