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Covid-19 Vaccination Recommendations And Rollout Of Updated Jn.1 Vaccines
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Pathetic
Come let me help you
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
This is how we do literature search
You can do it
Don't let your low SES background and lack of formal education hamper you
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You lack basic understanding of the PRC healthcare system
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-65036474
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That is true.
Briefly on how active Coronavirus works:-
1. It uses its spike proteins to latch onto Human cells. Once successful, the enveloped RNA virus enters the Human cell, feed on its nutrients & replicate, by swarms of it. The Human body is made of Human cells, including organs such as the lungs. Once those COV swarms starts feeding, the Human organ is in trouble & thus falling sick, especially for those at risk groups whom Human Immune System is weak.
2. For those whose Immune System is strong, the T & B cells are actively fighting off those swarms, & thus do not show any symptoms of sickness. They are known as asymptomatics, but they can spread the highly contagious COV to others thru contact or thru a mere sneeze as such droplets will contain the virus, thus a need for them to mask up, to save the lives of others.
Strong here does not mean someone who is physically fit & muscular looking. It is within the body - one's immune system maintained at optimal level DAILY, with proper healthy diet, moderate exercises to maintain blood flow & sweat off wastes, & enough sleep for the body at rest to repair itself.
Should such be ignored, then it is only natural to fall prey to COV attacks, no matter how many times one is inoculated with mRNA vaccine, as the vaccine is not a cure or a shield, but only to teach the immune system on what to do when the real COV attacks, by producing only the spike proteins to latch onto the Human cell, to stimulate the Immune's system T & B cells to rid anything that latches onto the Human cell.
For deactivated virus type vaccines, the virus as a whole is injected into the Human body. Being deactivated, it does nothing but simply bounce off the Human cell.
Ultimately, in fighting off COV, the answer lays with our Human body immune system. It is also a 'kill' switch.
When it can no longer fight off the COV swarms, it will heat up the body thru kinetic energy by the heart pumping faster than normal, making the Human to gasp for air, to kill off the virus which cannot survive above 37C within the Human body.
It will continue to raise the body temperature even above 41C should the COV swarms do not die off fast enough, & in the end, burning up Human cellular organs which will not survive above 46C & above, causing death - a last ditch attempt prevent the virus from taking over the Human body or spreading the virus to others......
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Former insurance employee gets damages in religious beliefs vaccine case
Group also seeking compensation over vaccine mandate
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By Terry GangcuangcoJul 01, 2024Share
Former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) employee Tanja Benton has been awarded over $680,000 by a Tennessee federal jury following a verdict that the insurer failed to offer reasonable accommodation for her religious beliefs.
The jury concluded that BCBST “did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence either that it had offered a reasonable accommodation to Plaintiff or that it could not reasonably accommodate the Plaintiff’s religious beliefs without undue hardship.”
The total damages awarded to Benton amounted to $687,240, which included $177,240 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory damages, and $500,000 in punitive damages.
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Hospital Worker Fired for Not Getting Flu Shot Wins Payout
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BART to pay $7.8 million to six former employees denied religious exemption for COVID vaccine
By LaMonica PetersPublished October 24, 2024 10:39pm PDT
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BART ordered to pay $7.8 million to six former employees denied religious exemption for COVID vaccine
In 2021, BART required all employees to get the COVID-19 vaccination or risk being fired.SAN JOSE, Calif. - BART now has to pay $7.8 million to six former employees after a jury found the company discriminated against them after they asked for a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Tonia Lewis-Williams says she was a utility worker at BART for 16 years. She says she was fired while on leave for not getting the COVID vaccine and now a jury says she and five others should be compensated.
"I found out some other co-workers were in the same situation that I was in, and we just knew that wasn’t right," said Lewis-Williams.
Lewis-Williams is one of six former BART employees awarded just over a million dollars each in their case against the transit agency. They say they were fired for not taking the COVID-19 vaccination and denied a religious exemption, all of whom say they are Christians. Jessica Barsotti is an attorney who worked on the case during trial.
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Payouts coming for hundreds of Alberta health workers impacted by COVID-19 vaccine rules
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This week, Alberta Health Services (AHS) and Alberta Precision Laboratories employees are set to be paid out, with some receiving as much as $5,000 for their pandemic labour interruption.
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London hospital worker fired for refusing COVID-19 shot must get job back, arbitrator rules
Punishment should have been 30-day suspension, not termination, arbitrator says
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Posted: June 12, 2024
A London woman fired nearly three years ago by London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) over its staff COVID-19 vaccination policy has had her termination reversed by an Ontario grievance arbitrator.
In his ruling, dated May 30, arbitrator Mark Wright ordered Jill Thompson be reinstated at the hospital, where she had worked for 18 years before her Oct. 22, 2021 dismissal, including as a counsellor in the child and adolescent mental health care program at Children's Hospital.
"I have found that (LHSC's) discharge of (Thompson) lacked just cause. I have ordered that (Thompson) be reinstated and that a 30-day disciplinary suspension be substituted for the discharge," Wright states in his decision.
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A Queensland judge ruled the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for frontline workers was unlawful. What comes next?
By Sarah Richards and Talissa SigantoPosted Tue 27 Feb 2024 at 9:30pmTuesday 27 Feb 2024 at 9:30pm, updated Wed 28 Feb 2024 at 2:29amWednesday 28 Feb 2024 at 2:29am
Queensland Supreme Court's ruling that COVID-19 mandates breached the human rights laws of some frontline workers is predicted to be "the first of a wave of claims" and may influence other states, according to law experts.
Dozens of Queensland Police Service (QPS) and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) staff challenged their workplace mandates in 2022.
Almost two years later, in Brisbane on Tuesday, Justice Glenn Martin ruled that the QPS and QAS policies breached part of the Human Rights Act (HRA).
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https://samhealth.org/news/albany-dad-regrets-not-getting-vaccinated/
It was supposed to be a time for catching up on everything Mike Dean, 37, of Albany missed out on during the pandemic.
There was the family vacation to Hawaii that had been rescheduled twice.
There was the Garth Brooks concert in Las Vegas, which had been postponed in 2020.
It felt so good to be doing what he loved.
Plus, there was the anticipation of the arrival of his third child, a boy, in September of 2021.
When the COVID-19 vaccine became available, Mike didn’t get vaccinated because it didn’t seem to him that young and healthy people were getting severely sick. And if he did get sick, he didn’t think it would be that bad.
It’s a decision he was fortunate enough to live to regret.
Mike survived a life-threatening case of COVID-19 last summer. He spent 35 days at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis. Some people, even close friends, still don’t believe how sick he was.
“They thought I was taking it easy, watching movies with an oxygen mask,” Mike said.
In fact, he was struggling for each breath until he couldn’t breathe on his own.
“It felt like I was endlessly drowning,” Mike recalled.
Just weeks before, he was on vacation in Hawaii, snorkeling and splashing in the ocean waves with his wife, Tory Dean, and their sons, Marcus, 6, and James, 9. Then he traveled to the concert in Las Vegas.
He felt tired when he got back from Las Vegas but chalked it up to a long weekend. By day three, he was exhausted and had a low-grade fever. He called in sick to work and his employer asked him to get tested for COVID-19. When the result was positive, Mike figured he would quarantine at home and stay away from his family.
By day five, he had shortness of breath, a high fever and chills.
“I was in sweats in July,” he said. “I couldn’t get warm.”
When he stood to walk to the bathroom, he collapsed. His lungs felt like he had run a marathon.
Mike called his doctor, who urged him to go to the emergency department for treatment. As he left home, he had to sit at the bottom of his front steps to catch his breath.
At the hospital, there wasn’t anything they could do except to advise him to continue monitoring his oxygen level.
“Unfortunately, the path that you’re headed down, you’ll be back,” emergency department physician Peter Gowing, DO, said. “I hope you’re not, but most likely you will be.”
The prediction gave Mike an eerie feeling. And the next day, his oxygen level dropped significantly. When he left for the hospital this time, he had to sit and slide down the front steps one at a time.
Mike was hospitalized on July 21. He received high-flow oxygen and medicine to calm him and treat “air hunger.”
“It’s like you’re starving for your breath,” he said. “It feels like you are gasping for air. It’s terrifying, so you start to panic.”
Ten days after his symptoms began, Mike consented to being placed on a ventilator. He remembers being in intensive care, surrounded by his care team.
“How much of this do you want to remember?” he was asked.
“I don’t want to remember any of it,” Mike replied.
The anesthesiologist looked him in the eye. “This is going to hurt,” he said. “I’m sorry.”
Mike remembers calling out in pain. Then he was out.
When he came off the ventilator, Mike wondered why he wasn’t feeling better.
“I thought this was going to be over,” he said.
Each morning, Hospitalist Bruce Ramsey, MD, greeted him.
“Mike, this is an inch a day scenario. You’re getting better inch by inch,” Dr. Ramsey said.
Mike had developed pneumonia. Then his oxygen levels dropped again. Respiratory Therapist Robert Sherwood brought in a BiPap machine to help push air into his lungs through a mask connected to a ventilator.
“If we don’t get your lungs inflated, you could spend the rest of your life on oxygen,” Sherwood said. “You are too young for that.”
When a nurse told Mike that he had been in the hospital three weeks, he was shocked.
“I thought about my pregnant wife and my kids,” he said.
Tory Dean, now eight months pregnant, was having complications. They kept in touch by video chat. It was hard to speak because he ran out of breath.
“I couldn’t talk to my kids,” he said. “I would send videos and try to stage it to where I wasn’t looking so terrible.”
Mike lost 31 pounds. Occupational therapy brought in a step for him to practice until he was confident that he could make it up 15 stairs to his bedroom at home.
On Aug. 24, he was discharged. About 30 care team members assembled at the exit, clapping as he passed by in a wheelchair.
At home, neighbors helped take him upstairs. When the boys came home the next day, he was sitting up in bed ready to hug them.
“They came running to me,” he said. “I just sat there and cried.”
Four weeks later, he was back at hospital for the birth of his youngest son, Hayes.
Precious moments like holding his newborn are something Mike does not take for granted.
While he recovered, his grandmother, who has congestive heart failure, had to spend the night in the emergency department because there were no hospital beds available.
“They were all taken by unvaccinated people with COVID, like me,” Mike said.
Mike followed his doctor’s guidance and received the COVID vaccine to help him recover from lingering symptoms and protect him from getting sick again.
He respects people’s right to decide if the vaccine is right for them based on their personal circumstances. In hindsight, he wishes he was not so dismissive about the disease or the vaccine.
“I wish everyone would get vaccinated if they can,” he said. “Maybe the vaccine would have kept me out of the hospital for 35 days. Maybe it would have kept me from having to go in the hospital, kept me from getting sick.
“It’s a decision I regret.”
Albany Dad Regrets Not Getting Vaccinated
December 9, 2021It was supposed to be a time for catching up on everything Mike Dean, 37, of Albany missed out on during the pandemic.
There was the family vacation to Hawaii that had been rescheduled twice.
There was the Garth Brooks concert in Las Vegas, which had been postponed in 2020.
It felt so good to be doing what he loved.
Plus, there was the anticipation of the arrival of his third child, a boy, in September of 2021.
When the COVID-19 vaccine became available, Mike didn’t get vaccinated because it didn’t seem to him that young and healthy people were getting severely sick. And if he did get sick, he didn’t think it would be that bad.
It’s a decision he was fortunate enough to live to regret.
Mike survived a life-threatening case of COVID-19 last summer. He spent 35 days at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis. Some people, even close friends, still don’t believe how sick he was.
“They thought I was taking it easy, watching movies with an oxygen mask,” Mike said.
In fact, he was struggling for each breath until he couldn’t breathe on his own.
“It felt like I was endlessly drowning,” Mike recalled.
Just weeks before, he was on vacation in Hawaii, snorkeling and splashing in the ocean waves with his wife, Tory Dean, and their sons, Marcus, 6, and James, 9. Then he traveled to the concert in Las Vegas.
He felt tired when he got back from Las Vegas but chalked it up to a long weekend. By day three, he was exhausted and had a low-grade fever. He called in sick to work and his employer asked him to get tested for COVID-19. When the result was positive, Mike figured he would quarantine at home and stay away from his family.
By day five, he had shortness of breath, a high fever and chills.
“I was in sweats in July,” he said. “I couldn’t get warm.”
When he stood to walk to the bathroom, he collapsed. His lungs felt like he had run a marathon.
Mike called his doctor, who urged him to go to the emergency department for treatment. As he left home, he had to sit at the bottom of his front steps to catch his breath.
At the hospital, there wasn’t anything they could do except to advise him to continue monitoring his oxygen level.
“Unfortunately, the path that you’re headed down, you’ll be back,” emergency department physician Peter Gowing, DO, said. “I hope you’re not, but most likely you will be.”
The prediction gave Mike an eerie feeling. And the next day, his oxygen level dropped significantly. When he left for the hospital this time, he had to sit and slide down the front steps one at a time.
Mike was hospitalized on July 21. He received high-flow oxygen and medicine to calm him and treat “air hunger.”
“It’s like you’re starving for your breath,” he said. “It feels like you are gasping for air. It’s terrifying, so you start to panic.”
Ten days after his symptoms began, Mike consented to being placed on a ventilator. He remembers being in intensive care, surrounded by his care team.
“How much of this do you want to remember?” he was asked.
“I don’t want to remember any of it,” Mike replied.
The anesthesiologist looked him in the eye. “This is going to hurt,” he said. “I’m sorry.”
Mike remembers calling out in pain. Then he was out.
When he came off the ventilator, Mike wondered why he wasn’t feeling better.
“I thought this was going to be over,” he said.
Each morning, Hospitalist Bruce Ramsey, MD, greeted him.
“Mike, this is an inch a day scenario. You’re getting better inch by inch,” Dr. Ramsey said.
Mike had developed pneumonia. Then his oxygen levels dropped again. Respiratory Therapist Robert Sherwood brought in a BiPap machine to help push air into his lungs through a mask connected to a ventilator.
“If we don’t get your lungs inflated, you could spend the rest of your life on oxygen,” Sherwood said. “You are too young for that.”
When a nurse told Mike that he had been in the hospital three weeks, he was shocked.
“I thought about my pregnant wife and my kids,” he said.
Tory Dean, now eight months pregnant, was having complications. They kept in touch by video chat. It was hard to speak because he ran out of breath.
“I couldn’t talk to my kids,” he said. “I would send videos and try to stage it to where I wasn’t looking so terrible.”
Mike lost 31 pounds. Occupational therapy brought in a step for him to practice until he was confident that he could make it up 15 stairs to his bedroom at home.
On Aug. 24, he was discharged. About 30 care team members assembled at the exit, clapping as he passed by in a wheelchair.
At home, neighbors helped take him upstairs. When the boys came home the next day, he was sitting up in bed ready to hug them.
“They came running to me,” he said. “I just sat there and cried.”
Four weeks later, he was back at hospital for the birth of his youngest son, Hayes.
Precious moments like holding his newborn are something Mike does not take for granted.
While he recovered, his grandmother, who has congestive heart failure, had to spend the night in the emergency department because there were no hospital beds available.
“They were all taken by unvaccinated people with COVID, like me,” Mike said.
Mike followed his doctor’s guidance and received the COVID vaccine to help him recover from lingering symptoms and protect him from getting sick again.
He respects people’s right to decide if the vaccine is right for them based on their personal circumstances. In hindsight, he wishes he was not so dismissive about the disease or the vaccine.
“I wish everyone would get vaccinated if they can,” he said. “Maybe the vaccine would have kept me out of the hospital for 35 days. Maybe it would have kept me from having to go in the hospital, kept me from getting sick.
“It’s a decision I regret.”
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Already 2024. Still pushing 2021 fairy tales. What a retarded
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rets-over-refusing-jab-vaccine-intensive-care
21 heartbreaking stories of people who regret not getting a COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/regret-COVID-unvaccinated-hospital-coronavirus-16378317.php
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I'm a very clear minded individuals.
I doesn't believe news coming from all over the Internet, as those people they mentioned might not even exist in this world. There is no way for us to verify. So i always take it as a pinch of salt.
I trust only part of the report from well known main stream medias eg. Sph.
When they said someone died of covid, it means it is true. However they failed to report people who died from vaccines. This is bad.
I trust my own eyes more.
I do know of sinkie in their late 60s who died from covid unvaccinated.
My advice to anyone is to stay clear minded in everything we do, including covid vaccines and do not be influenced by information from the Internet.
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As of now I have this findings by myself.
1. More old farts died of covid rather than the vaccines. And this is the reason I went for the jabs even I know vaccines might kill me. I weighted the pros and cons and placed my bets. I might be wrong as there is no sure win in a gamble.
2. More youngsters died of vaccines rather than covid. Thus I do not encourage them to be vaccinated. And would even advise them to reject the vaccination programme.
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As the insignificant nobody me had emphasized many times, the answer to winning against COV lays with our personal body immune system. Any good doctor will say the same.
Singaporeans are well known to be hardworking at every level, or at least a vast majority of us, many whom are young, since 5 yrs old at school & at work. Thus many of the young take their personal health for granted, often working late into the night, eating junk foods, or the few who go to gym do so under airconditioned environments, & often have only 4-5 hrs of sleep daily, on top of the stressful lives we live daily to put food on the table for loved ones.
Under such conditions, the young's immune system will be lower, & perhaps similar to the aged whom suffers from natural cellular decay. Thus the young WILL BE EQUALLY susceptible to the highly dangerous & contagious Coronavirus in its various forms - SARS, COVid 19, Omnicron, etc, etc.
However, mRNA vaccines ARE NOT a cure or a shield. It only teaches the immune system how to respond in the event of an actual COV attack., & thus if one does not maintain one's personal immune system at optimal levels DAILY, then one will only become history.
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As to perceptions that mRNA vaccines kill, here's a report by Ministry of Health, dated 3rd June 2024:-
https://www.moh.gov.sg/newsroom/min...ponse-to-call-to-suspend-covid-19-vaccination
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is aware of a recent post by the People’s Power Party to call for suspension of COVID-19 vaccination. It cited “studies and analyses by prominent medical experts”, which claimed that COVID-19 vaccines caused high incidences of severe side effects. It also attempted to draw associations between high vaccination rates and excess deaths.
MOH categorically rejects these egregious and false claims. Our response to each of these so-called experts is laid out in detail in the Annex.
The COVID-19 pandemic took the lives of millions around the world, paralysed healthcare systems in many jurisdictions, and brought economies to a standstill. We need to draw the right conclusions and follow the scientific evidence on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
In a pandemic of this nature, excess deaths are inevitable. The primary reason why Singapore recorded one of the lowest excess death rates in the world during the pandemic, is because the majority of Singaporeans took the vaccines. The high level of vaccine protection in our society averted many COVID-related deaths, protected our healthcare system from being overwhelmed, and allowed us to preserve lives and livelihoods. The normalcy in our daily lives today is in large part due to the protection that COVID-19 vaccines provide.
During our previous JN.1 wave, the incidence rate of COVID-19 hospitalisations and ICU admissions among seniors aged 60 years and above who were not vaccinated was almost twice that of those who kept their vaccination updated. Multiple international and local studies conducted over other past waves have also consistently demonstrated the effectiveness of vaccination in preventing severe outcomes (such as emergency department attendance, hospitalisation, ICU admission and death), especially among older personsi, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii.
In addition, vaccination and boosting mitigate the risk of developing long-term conditions after COVID-19 infection, such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and thrombotic complicationsviii.
This is why keeping up to date with additional vaccine doses is pertinent even as COVID-19 becomes endemic, much like vaccination against influenza and pneumococcus. COVID-19 waves occur from time to time and can cause severe disease among those who are older or medically vulnerable. The vaccines will be able to protect individuals and prevent deaths.
There are side effects to any vaccination. In this regard, Singapore has been transparent in reporting the incidence of side effects of COVID 19 vaccination. Until July 2023 when the safety profiles of the vaccines have been reviewed to be consistent with no new safety signals, we reported this on a regular basis, which showed that most side effects were mild, and that the reporting rates of severe side effects remained rare at 7 per 100,000 doses (0.007%). Most recovered smoothly after rest and treatment. In particular, we highlighted the relatively higher incidence of myocarditis amongst the young males, at about 1 in 100,000 doses (0.001%).
Real world data in the US shows that young men ages 18 to 29 years had seven to eight times the risk of myocarditis/pericarditis after COVID-19 infection, compared to after COVID-19 vaccinationix. This is supported by other studies, including a systematic review which reported similar findings that the risk of myocarditis is more than seven times higher in persons who had COVID-19 infections than in those who received the vaccinex. As such, the benefit of vaccination continues to outweigh the risk for all ages.
In comparison, the long term effects of COVID-19 infections without the protection of vaccines can be much worse, with patients registering heart, respiratory and other complications post infection, collectively referred to as “Long COVID” sometimes.
That is why international and national health authorities continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccination. MOH’s recommendations on COVID-19 vaccination are evidence-based. We have been and will continue to monitor the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and adjust our recommendations accordingly.
There is a very large body of scientific evidence that overwhelmingly shows that the protection from COVID-19 vaccines outweighs the side effects. Yet, several groups continue to spread misinformation, either by quoting scientific literature out of context or sharing materials from non-credible sources who cannot be held accountable, to cast doubts on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. At least the People’s Power Party has consolidated these reports, to give us the opportunity to rebut them at one go. We also note that the list of scientific articles cited by the People’s Power Party were mostly from the same group of authors, including some who have been reported to be promoting messages against COVID-19 vaccination. We urge the public to verify information found on the Internet against authoritative sources.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
3 JUNE 2024
Singaporeans are well known to be hardworking at every level, or at least a vast majority of us, many whom are young, since 5 yrs old at school & at work. Thus many of the young take their personal health for granted, often working late into the night, eating junk foods, or the few who go to gym do so under airconditioned environments, & often have only 4-5 hrs of sleep daily, on top of the stressful lives we live daily to put food on the table for loved ones.
Under such conditions, the young's immune system will be lower, & perhaps similar to the aged whom suffers from natural cellular decay. Thus the young WILL BE EQUALLY susceptible to the highly dangerous & contagious Coronavirus in its various forms - SARS, COVid 19, Omnicron, etc, etc.
However, mRNA vaccines ARE NOT a cure or a shield. It only teaches the immune system how to respond in the event of an actual COV attack., & thus if one does not maintain one's personal immune system at optimal levels DAILY, then one will only become history.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As to perceptions that mRNA vaccines kill, here's a report by Ministry of Health, dated 3rd June 2024:-
https://www.moh.gov.sg/newsroom/min...ponse-to-call-to-suspend-covid-19-vaccination
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is aware of a recent post by the People’s Power Party to call for suspension of COVID-19 vaccination. It cited “studies and analyses by prominent medical experts”, which claimed that COVID-19 vaccines caused high incidences of severe side effects. It also attempted to draw associations between high vaccination rates and excess deaths.
MOH categorically rejects these egregious and false claims. Our response to each of these so-called experts is laid out in detail in the Annex.
The COVID-19 pandemic took the lives of millions around the world, paralysed healthcare systems in many jurisdictions, and brought economies to a standstill. We need to draw the right conclusions and follow the scientific evidence on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
In a pandemic of this nature, excess deaths are inevitable. The primary reason why Singapore recorded one of the lowest excess death rates in the world during the pandemic, is because the majority of Singaporeans took the vaccines. The high level of vaccine protection in our society averted many COVID-related deaths, protected our healthcare system from being overwhelmed, and allowed us to preserve lives and livelihoods. The normalcy in our daily lives today is in large part due to the protection that COVID-19 vaccines provide.
During our previous JN.1 wave, the incidence rate of COVID-19 hospitalisations and ICU admissions among seniors aged 60 years and above who were not vaccinated was almost twice that of those who kept their vaccination updated. Multiple international and local studies conducted over other past waves have also consistently demonstrated the effectiveness of vaccination in preventing severe outcomes (such as emergency department attendance, hospitalisation, ICU admission and death), especially among older personsi, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii.
In addition, vaccination and boosting mitigate the risk of developing long-term conditions after COVID-19 infection, such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and thrombotic complicationsviii.
This is why keeping up to date with additional vaccine doses is pertinent even as COVID-19 becomes endemic, much like vaccination against influenza and pneumococcus. COVID-19 waves occur from time to time and can cause severe disease among those who are older or medically vulnerable. The vaccines will be able to protect individuals and prevent deaths.
There are side effects to any vaccination. In this regard, Singapore has been transparent in reporting the incidence of side effects of COVID 19 vaccination. Until July 2023 when the safety profiles of the vaccines have been reviewed to be consistent with no new safety signals, we reported this on a regular basis, which showed that most side effects were mild, and that the reporting rates of severe side effects remained rare at 7 per 100,000 doses (0.007%). Most recovered smoothly after rest and treatment. In particular, we highlighted the relatively higher incidence of myocarditis amongst the young males, at about 1 in 100,000 doses (0.001%).
Real world data in the US shows that young men ages 18 to 29 years had seven to eight times the risk of myocarditis/pericarditis after COVID-19 infection, compared to after COVID-19 vaccinationix. This is supported by other studies, including a systematic review which reported similar findings that the risk of myocarditis is more than seven times higher in persons who had COVID-19 infections than in those who received the vaccinex. As such, the benefit of vaccination continues to outweigh the risk for all ages.
In comparison, the long term effects of COVID-19 infections without the protection of vaccines can be much worse, with patients registering heart, respiratory and other complications post infection, collectively referred to as “Long COVID” sometimes.
That is why international and national health authorities continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccination. MOH’s recommendations on COVID-19 vaccination are evidence-based. We have been and will continue to monitor the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and adjust our recommendations accordingly.
There is a very large body of scientific evidence that overwhelmingly shows that the protection from COVID-19 vaccines outweighs the side effects. Yet, several groups continue to spread misinformation, either by quoting scientific literature out of context or sharing materials from non-credible sources who cannot be held accountable, to cast doubts on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. At least the People’s Power Party has consolidated these reports, to give us the opportunity to rebut them at one go. We also note that the list of scientific articles cited by the People’s Power Party were mostly from the same group of authors, including some who have been reported to be promoting messages against COVID-19 vaccination. We urge the public to verify information found on the Internet against authoritative sources.
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