{"id":41450,"date":"2022-11-01T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41450"},"modified":"2022-11-01T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:59:41","slug":"another-new-study-yes-a-second-one-says-the-omicron-specific-mrna-covid-boosters-are-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41450","title":{"rendered":"Another new study &#8211; yes, a SECOND one &#8211; says the &#8220;Omicron-specific&#8221; mRNA Covid boosters are worthless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week, top scientists have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.10.24.513619v1.full.pdf\" rel=\"\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cOmicron specific\u201d Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>The new shots work no better than the original mRNA shots to produce antibodies specifically targeting the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>And the Omicron shots are even WORSE than the original boosters in producing T-cells that target Omicron, according to the researchers, part of a group led by Dr. Dan Barouch, a highly respected virologist. This finding is of particular concern because T-cells, the second line of the immune system, keep infections from becoming too severe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/another-new-study-yes-a-second-one\/comments?publication_id=363080&amp;post_id=81234239\">https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/another-new-study-yes-a-second-one\/comments?publication_id=363080&amp;post_id=81234239<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week, top scientists have\u00a0reported\u00a0that \u201cOmicron specific\u201d Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick. The new shots work no better than the original mRNA shots to produce antibodies specifically targeting the Omicron variant. And the Omicron shots are even WORSE than the original boosters in producing T-cells &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another new study &#8211; yes, a SECOND one &#8211; says the &#8220;Omicron-specific&#8221; mRNA Covid boosters are worthless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41451,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41450\/revisions\/41451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}