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Here's a good reason to get vaccinated. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/us-man-claims-his-penis-has-shrunk-due-to-rare-covid-side-effect/news-story/4bb179721b4c4fe85888fbb36f6248a5

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This story was debunked here

The article states that there is no evidence of harm from a fourth dose and supports the use of a fourth does among the vulnerable. It also states that more data is required before a determination can be made about whether a fourth dose might be beneficial. There is no hint that scientists are advising caution regarding the safety of a fourth shot. It specifically discounts the prospect of harm to the immune system.

53% fully vaccinated with Sinopharm, restricted travel and high rate of mask and social distancing compliance. https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/indonesia/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-judge-rejects-prince-andrews-bid-dismiss-sex-abuse-accusers-lawsuit-2022-01-12/

I didn't say it was problem finding them. I said it would double the work load for minimal gain. I think it can safely be said that the difference between Pfizer and Moderna as a booster would be minimal and they probably know that..

With an imagination like that you could write science fiction novels ????

I suspect that they reasoned that the difference between Moderna and Pfizer as a booster after Sinovac would not have produced drastically different results. Easier to just choose one or the other as it halved the number of subjects required for the trial.

The group of experts, who are working to assess the performance of Covid-19 vaccines, called for the development of new vaccines that not only protect people who contract Covid against falling seriously ill but also better prevent people from catching the virus in the first place, in order to deal with emerging Covid variants such as Omicron. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/repeated-covid-boosters-not-viable-strategy-against-new-variants-who-experts-warn

From the perpective of a Thai native speaker. Worth a read but don't let the edge cases deter you. https://multilingual.com/articles/who-sells-chicken-eggs-cracking-thai-localization/.

I've had the gold standard, one AZ, one Pfizer and one Moderna. One of my friends thinks he had omicron last week and his GP agreed although he did not get tested. A PCR test in my state in Australia requires lining up for hours to get a result several days later and rapid test kits are unavailable.

Ask them to teach you to say "Who sells chicken eggs"?

That's actually the fault of the unvaccinated who provide incubators for the virus to mutate rather than the pharmaceutical companies which are forced to continue to develop and sell new vaccines to cope with the mutations.

In the population in the South African study, the Pfizer vaccine's effectiveness against infection dropped down to about 30% for the omicron variant, compared with about 80% against the variant before omicron, the scientists reported. That means the Pfizer vaccine reduces a person's risk of getting infected by about 30% compared to somebody who's not immunized. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/14/1063947940/vaccine-protection-vs-omicron-infection-may-drop-to-30-but-does-cut-severe-disea Strong evidence has accumulated over the past two weeks to indicate that booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines are likely to increase protection against infection with the Omicron variant. https://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-on-the-omicron-variant-and-the-timing-of-covid-19-booster-vaccination

An infection of a fully vaccinated person is referred to as a “vaccine breakthrough infection.” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html

Very good. It can backfire though. I learned Thai while quite young but never went to Thailand from 1991 to 2015, consequently my Thai became quite rusty. Since then I have often spoken Thai when there and it sometimes results in people refusing to speak English to me thereafter because they assume I am fluent and it puts me under a lot of pressure. The key is to learn to pronounce the words properly. When they tell you that you "put chut" (speak clearly) you know you are on the right track.

Any infection despite vaccination is a breakthrough infection.

No, an infection is a positive test regardless of the presence of symptoms. To suggest that an asymptomatic person who has tested positive is not infected is ludicrous in the extreme. The word "breakthrough" refers to the ability of the virus to bypass the immune response mounted following a vaccination.

Do you have an actual basis on which to claim that schools won't open again? It would seem highly unreasonable to claim that schools in any country won't reopen once virus infections recede or the danger has been mitigated by high rates of vaccination.

Yes, and I posted a Harvard Medical School article which stated that breakthrough infections for DELTA are in the order of 1:5000.

The article and your question are not relevant to either the topic or my reply to a different poster. Nor does it prove or is even relevant to the out of context quote you have attributed to me. You should stop insisting that vaccines do not reduce infection or transmission, in particular in relation to delta which is the context in which I stated that. Here is what Fauci did say "Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in the sense of not having hospitalization and death. In contrast, those who are not vaccinated are "going to get the brunt of the severe aspect of this," he added."

The debate wasn't about infections. The claim was as below. Your link is irrelevant to the claim being debated. "OK then" presumably refers to my post which you replied to and was removed.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211223/Pediatric-hospital-admissions-rise-with-omicron-SARS-CoV-2-variant.aspx https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/8/hospitalisations-skyrocket-in-children-too-young-for-covid-shots https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/8/hospitalisations-skyrocket-in-children-too-young-for-covid-shots