Booster Fatigue

They're right, we're tired

“I’m very concerned about booster fatigue,” Dr. Beth Bell, a clinical professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, told a reporter at the Associated Press this week.

Dr. Bell, who’s also an adviser to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is worried that the mixed messaging from the CDC and the need for another COVID shot every four to six months may undermine public confidence in the vaccine program.

At the same time, the Associated Press reports, Moderna and Pfizer are testing combination vaccines, and they hope to offer a two-in-one COVID vaccine to the public this fall.

Me, I love mixed messages!

I think it makes perfect sense to say that something works really well but it doesn’t! That the recipe has made such truly delicious and nutritious food but we’ve also got to change it!

COVID vaccines don’t stop the spread

According to a recent peer-reviewed study in the British Medical Journal: “Vaccination was associated with a smaller reduction in transmission of the delta variant than of the alpha variant, and the effects of vaccination decreased over time.”

According to an article in The Lancet by Carlos Franco-Paredes, M.D., who works in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Center: “…the impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people.”

It’s just so crystal clear when we’re told we’re protected but we’re not.

Don’t you agree?

A few months ago I attended a medical freedom rally outside a hospital in Medford, Oregon. Two older gentlemen stopped me as I was walking through the crowd to deliver a sign to my colleagues. One pulled down his shirt to show me a large scar across his chest.

Over a thousand people attended a medical rally to support choice for workers at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in August of 2021, according to police officers who were there keeping the peace. People held signs that read: VAXXED AND UNVAXXED WE STAND TOGETHER and MEDICAL DOCTORS FOR CHOICE and LAST YEAR’S HEROS, THIS YEAR’S UNEMPLOYED and DON’T FIRE FRONTLINE HEROES. The mainstream media did not cover the event. I guess that means it did not happen.

“I’m a heart patient,” he said. “I got the vaccine because my doctor told me to. But I’m sorry I did it and I’m not getting another one. Even my doctor’s changed his mind. He’s not recommending it anymore.”

The nine newly minted Big Pharma billionaires who continue to profit exponentially off this crisis may be laughing all the way to the bank, but the rest of us have had enough.

Dr. Bell’s concern is warranted. We’re getting tired of being pin cushions. In fact, even the most vaccine gung ho among us are starting to have booster fatigue.

Watch out, Public Health, booster fatigue may be contagious.