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Immunocompromised People Make Up Nearly Half Of COVID Breakthrough Hospitalizations. An Extra Vaccine Dose May Help.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/...spitalizations-an-extra-vaccine-dose-may-help

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially recommended on Aug. 12 and Aug. 13, 2021, respectively, that people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised receive a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

One reason for this recommendation is high hospitalization rates among immunocompromised people who are vaccinated. As of July 2021, nearly half of the vaccinated people hospitalized with breakthrough COVID-19 infections were immunocompromised – despite making up only 2.7% of the U.S. adult population. In comparison, the rate of breakthrough cases among vaccinated people who are not immunocompromised was less than 1%.

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A couple of things the article makes very clear:
  1. 100s if not 1000s of post stating that 99% of new cases are unvaxxed is complete and total bullshit.
  2. We don't have enough data yet!
  3. Biden's complete failure as a leader.
  4. Biden and his admin have completely failed wrt a clear public health message and are the main cause for people not getting vaccinated.
  5. With Biden in charge, there is no hope that Covid is going away.

Some excerpts below.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...p-up-with-virus-creating-worry-for-vaccinated
The Vaccinated Are Worried and Scientists Don’t Have Answers

Anecdotes tell us what the data can’t: Vaccinated people appear to be getting the coronavirus at a surprisingly high rate. But exactly how often isn’t clear, nor is it certain how likely they are to spread the virus to others.

There’s a dearth of scientific studies with concrete answers, leaving public policy makers and corporate executives to formulate plans based on fragmented information.

“We have to be humble about what we do know and what we don’t know,” said Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the head of the nonprofit Resolve to Save Lives. “There are a few things we can say definitively. One is that this is a hard question to address.”

Absent clear public health messaging, vaccinated people are left confused about how to protect themselves. Just how vulnerable they are is a key variable not just for public health officials trying to figure out, say, when booster shots might be needed, but also to inform decisions about whether to roll back reopenings amid a new wave of the virus.

In lieu of answers, what has emerged is a host of case studies providing somewhat different pictures of breakthrough infections.

“It’s quite clear that we have more breakthroughs now,” said Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco. “We all know someone who has had one. But we don’t have great clinical data.”

Yet another CDC case study, in Colorado, found that the breakthrough infection rate in one county, Mesa, was significantly higher than the rest of the state, at 7% versus about 5%.
 
U.S. FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.reuters.com/business/he...-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-2021-08-23/

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and German partner BioNTech SE for use in people over the age of 16, in first such approval of a COVID-19 shot.

The vaccine has been authorized for emergency use since December and more than 204 million people in the United States have received it, based on Sunday's data. But none of the three authorized COVID-19 vaccines had previously received full FDA approval.

Public health officials hope it will convince more unvaccinated Americans that Pfizer's shot is safe and effective. Vaccine hesitancy among some Americans has hindered the United States response to the novel coronavirus.

"While millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the FDA approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated," said Janet Woodcock, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's acting commissioner.

Roughly 51% of Americans have been fully vaccinated so far, even as a recent surge of infections spurred by the contagious Delta variant ravages parts of the country with low vaccination rates.
 
gwb-trading said:
Could a dumber name not be found? Just waiting for all the TV ads telling you to "talk to your doctor about Comirnaty". Sounds like the name of a unwanted growth on your foot.
More...

Comirnaty is pronounced...

Cum-i-naughty

Moderna also had a strange name change for marketing purposes...

SpikeVax and it makes me think they're now going to start doing vaccinations in tattoo shops.

wrbtrader
 
AstraZeneca COVID vaccine name changed to Vaxzevria
Thu 19 Aug 2021
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The AstraZeneca labels on vaccine vials will be replaced with the new name later this year.(Reuters: Dado Ruvic)

The AstraZeneca vaccine will now be called Vaxzevria after an application to rename it was approved by Australia's medical regulator.
  • The vaccine is known as Vaxzevria in Europe and Canada
  • The company says people will see both names for the next little while
  • It is hoped the name change will avoid confusion when international travel resumes
The company asked the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to approve the rebrand, saying it would bring the name into line with what the vaccine is called in European countries and Canada.
 
Pfizer wants you to call its COVID vaccine Comirnaty. How the name came about
https://fortune.com/2021/08/23/pfizer-covid-vaccine-comirnaty-how-it-got-its-name/

Fresh off its full approval by the FDA, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine (also referred to as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine) would now like to be known as Comirnaty.

It’s a request with which few people are likely to comply.

The brand name for the Pfizer vaccine is a mouthful, but it’s not new. In fact, it has been around since last December. (There’s even a name for the generic version of the drug, whenever that hits the market: tozinameran.) But where did it come from?

Comirnaty (pronounced “koe-mir-na-tee”) is actually a car wreck of several words, all of which are centered around the pandemic and the breakthrough technology that enabled scientists to develop a vaccine so fast.

“Comirnaty…represents a combination of the terms COVID-19, mRNA, community, and immunity, to highlight the first authorization of a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, as well as the joint global efforts that made this achievement possible,” said Pfizer in announcing EU authorization last year.

The name, which you might guess if you say it out loud, is meant to evoke community (even if it sounds like it’s being said by the woman in the “Ermahgerd” meme).

To break it down more, “Co” comes from COVID-19. “Mirna” is an adulterated version of mRNA. And “-ty” blends in the community and immunity themes.

As for that generic name, which is even more of a mouthful, “tozina-“ is a prefix required by the World Health Organization, while “meran” is a required suffix for mRNA vaccines.

If you’re not a fan of Comirnaty, it could have been…well, better or worse. You decide. Among the reported rejected names Pfizer and BioNTech considered were Covuity, RnaxCovi, Kovimerna, and RNXtract.

As for Moderna’s COVID vaccine? It doesn’t have a name in the U.S. yet, but the odds-on favorite is Spikevax. The European Medicines Agency approved that name last month. When and if the FDA gives Moderna’s treatment full approval, it will rule on the name as well.
 
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