By Zachary Stieber, EPOCH TIMES November 7, 2021
The effectiveness of the three COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States has declined in recent months, with protection against infection falling under 50 percent for two of them after six months, according to a new study.
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine dropped to 58 percent in September from 89.2 percent effectiveness in March, researchers found. During the same time frame, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine fell to 43.3 percent from 86.9 percent, and Johnson & Johnson’s shot declined to 13.1 percent from 86.4 percent.
Dr. Stephen Hahn, head of the Food and Drug Administration during the final portion of the Trump administration, said last year that the agency wouldn’t authorize COVID-19 vaccines that weren’t at least 50 percent effective against infection.
The researchers also found that the vaccines’ protection against death waned after six months, particularly among older people. Instead of comparing the effectiveness in March and September, though, they used the data to pinpoint the effectiveness from July to October. For those 65 or older, the effectiveness against death was 75.5 percent for Moderna’s vaccine, 70.1 percent effective for Pfizer’s vaccine, and 52.2 percent effective for Johnson & Johnson’s jab.
For younger people, the effectiveness was higher: 84.3 percent for the Pfizer vaccine, 81.5 percent for Moderna, and 73 percent for Johnson & Johnson.
While early data showed high vaccine effectiveness against both infection and death, “our results suggest vaccines are less effective in preventing infection associated with the Delta variant,” researchers wrote.
While the vaccinated over time faced a higher risk of getting infected with COVID-19 or dying, the unvaccinated were still more likely to contract the illness or die from it, they said.
Researchers with the Public Health Institute, the University of Texas School of Public Health, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center carried out the research, which was published in the journal Science.
Researchers examined COVID-19 infections and deaths by vaccination status in 780,225 veterans between Feb. 1 and Oct. 1. They used data from the Department of Veterans Affairs and received funding from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the University of California Office of the President.
“Our study gives researchers, policy makers, and others a strong basis for comparing the long-term effectiveness of COVID vaccines, and a lens for making informed decisions around primary vaccination, booster shots, and other multiple layers of protection, including masking mandates, social distancing, testing, and other public health interventions to reduce the chance of spread,” Dr. Barbara Cohn, the lead author, said in a statement.
The research supports recommendations for many Americans, including all Johnson & Johnson recipients, to get booster shots, she said.
Other studies have shown that COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has waned over time, leading to the booster recommendations from U.S. health authorities, but this was the first to examine all three available in the United States. It also suggested a lower effectiveness against death than many other studies.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Limitations of the study include not knowing why or where people were tested; researchers required a person to have been tested for COVID-19 to be included in the analysis.
Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases didn’t respond to overnight requests for comment, and haven’t appeared to react publicly to the study.
The findings come after two other studies, both preprints, showed that vaccine effectiveness against infection decreased over time after initial injection.
Swedish researchers, using data from nationwide registries, found that Pfizer’s vaccine dropped in effectiveness to 30–47 percent at day 121–180 from 92 percent at day 15.
“From day 211 and onwards, no effectiveness could be detected,” they said. The Moderna shot also declined in effectiveness, but retained some protection after day 181.
Israeli researchers, meanwhile, extracting data from a nationwide database, found that Pfizer’s vaccine was less effective against both infection and severe disease over time after full vaccination.
Zachary Stieber covers U.S. news, including politics and court cases. He started at The Epoch Times as a New York City metro reporter.
Dr. Malone has been reading bread crumbs into his podcasts for the past several months. Today he had an interview in which he, largely, focuses on stringing the breadcrumbs together. The interviewer largely listens while Malone tells the tale of the behind the scenes manipulation with the vaccines, the manipulations of CIA expert on bio-warfare, the order by a GS15 officer to expose the truth, the war game that foreshadowed the outbreak including the role played by both John-Hopkins and the press, vaccinating the military, his views on those behind the pandemic, the virus origin, the use of mRNA vaccines in the future and much more.
here is the link:
https://thenewamerican.com/dr-robert-malone-this-is-the-largest-experiment-performed-on-human-beings-in-the-history-of-the-world/
@peloni. Many thanks for your reply to my most recent missive, Peloni. I will look forward to reading your comments and evaluation of the Elsevier Kristoff report, whenever you
have the time to study it. Do not hurry on my account.
If the authors, who include some twenty scientists in addition to the lead investigator, are factually based, then we are in deeper trouble than I had thought previously.
Doctors who support the official CDC-WHO line about the vaccines responded with unprofessional vitriol and name-calling, both in medical journalists and in the popular press. They denounced the report as “lies” and “fake News” (they actually used and similar expressions, which have no legitimate place in professional journals). I won’t burden you with even more items on your reading list. But if you decide to read these hysterical reactions, all you have to do is google “Kristof report,” and you will find lots o them listed there.
In my opinion, when professionals who normally express themselves in cautious and unemotional, technical language resort to gutter language to attack someone who disagrees with them, it is a sign of their desperation and their lack of confidence that the facts support their positions. As the old adage about lawyers says, “when the facts support your case, argue the facts. When the law supports your case, argue the law. When neither supports your case, pound the table.” Apparently, physicians are just as capable as lawyers at table-pounding when they know that the facts don’t support ther claims.
@Adam
I appologize, as I did see you shared the Kristoff study and commented on its content, but I overlooked your request for my input on the study and other articles til you just brought it to my attention. I am currently pursuing the latest immunologic findings on the virus and I should be free to reflect upon the Kristoff report later this week or by the weekend. It was to be my next endeavor in any case, but the length may or may not take a bit to devour – some researchers intentionally write in a short, terse and cryptic fashion, but Kristoff doesn’t appear to be so inclined upon reading a short portion of the report, but it is still a bit long. Based on the stated findings of the report, you are quite correct, it is far worse than I believed was true. Speaking as someone who has had a healthy sense of concern and speculation regarding the risk-benefit value of the vax, I am shocked by the summary findings in Kristoff’s research, but I have yet to carefully examine it. On first glance it is devastating. I always struggled with the fact that the initial studies showed nothing, and the followup “studies’ are so managed that it devalues any rigorous evaluation of the shots. This always concerned me, but I think we are looking at a whole new level of concern from the summary findings. I should be able to comment on it by the weekend or sooner.
@ Peloni. Peloni, I am an impatient man, and so I feel a bit disappointed that a whole day has gone by and you haven’t responded to my comments that provided links to the Kristof-Elsevier study. I am aware of course that you have more important responsibilities than responding to every question that I ask. Also, that you feel an obligation to respond to the many other commenters on this site who ask you questions, and that I have no right to push to the head of the queue.
Still, I think that the Kristof-Elsevier study is enormously important, since appears to be very thorough and detailed and is heavily documented. It contains extensive statistics, graphas and charts to support the authors’ conclusions. Also, about 20 scientists contributed to the study, not just Dr. Kristoff alone.
The Kristoff’s teams research fully supports your conclusions about the dangerousness of the vaccine. In fact, they seem convinced that it is even more dangerous than you have reported to us. The Kristof-Elsevier team believed that the vaccines have probably caused ten times the number of deaths than has covid itself.
There is also another article in the same issue of Elsevier’s journal Direct Science-Toxicology Reports, which reports on a clinical study, prospective I think, that shoed that ivervectin was effective both as a prophylactic and treatment for Cv19-2. It would also be great if you could read this article, too, and give us your comments. This entire “special issue,” as Elsevier calls it published in August with updates, is filled with articles providing vital information about the Covid-vaccine controversy, all of which appear to confirm your views.
I realize that it is impossible for you to read all this at once. It may well require several weeks, maybe even months, to read this whole medical journal issue. But perhaps you could send me one or two lines to the effect that you have read my comments and intend to study the Elsevier studies when you have time.
I don’t know anyone else with a sufficient knowledge base to evaluate these reports and respond to them in a meaningful way. Again, pardon my temerity in making this big request. Adam.
@Bear
I really couldn’t agree with you more. Like too many aspects of modern society it is a consequence of captured oversight. Corruption too easily adopted, then accepted, and finally, it is forever perpetuated as part of the system.
Such legacy news sources have matured over time to realize that they can capitalize on selling complete BS, idle speculation and hopeful wishing, if not whole cloth non-sense, as ‘news’. It provides a reliable ‘news’ stream, keeps the political mandates of corporate collectives happy and increases the sell-ability of such sources to the likes of pharmaceutical companies and political parties who each spend money like they stole it.
This sad acknowledgement has its roots in the lack of editorial oversight at such ‘news’ agencies. As in all things, if there is no oversight, or worse if the oversight is complicit or managing such untrustworthy reporting, it becomes a positive feedback loop, ie it is self-perpetuating, but it is also self-capturing with no possibility of escape.
These organizations have sold their legacy or reputations and the public have taken their time in recognizing the fact, and even after recognizing this fact, many still partake in patronizing such useless news sources for lack of acceptable alternatives. This became the root and spawn upon which the Russia hoax was based and perpetuated and is still being sold by some as supported.
If there is no criminal penalty, the crime is not criminal. The reporters and anchors will bend to whatever level of dubious duplicity that the editors allow and the editors carryout the will of the corporate boards. None of this is accidental or exaggerated. It has led to the centralization of distrust of such legacy news sources and a general trust in more decentralized news sources.
Some could call it progress, but I agree with your estimate of sad as a better descriptor, but it was quite intended, accepted and useful to the corporate masters that have allowed it to occur, employed its financial use, and will likely continue to employ it in their future business modeling.
The loss of a significant portion of public’s prioritization has led these corporate news groups to become captured(there’s that word again) by the big dollar ad buyers whose interests dictate the ‘news’ stories, and, hence, the cycle goes round and round and…
As you say, very sad.
@Peloni what I find from both sides in the political wars going on is that people including news media are happy to report gossip as news and many times lies if they think it may further their political views.
I find this sad as it makes even those I have for years been politically of like minds no longer trustworthy without an independent inquiry on a particular subject.
@Peloni, I wished Newsom had been recalled. I can NOT stomach the ass Hole!
I was not ridiculing you nor defending Newsom. It was an attempt at humor, as I find comedy in these political wars. Sometimes not being emotionally invested has its benefits.
Someone I know (biz associate) claims he was saw him at a wedding of a prominent person recently (truth not sarcasm one of the Getty heirs). There are no photos of him at the wedding that I have seen, anyway.
Actually did search found photo. https://www.sfgate.com/california-politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-Ivy-Getty-wedding-absence-missing-16605474.php
@Bear
Your ridicule, well used, aside, the Defender claims they have confirmed that he has Guillan Barre Syndrome, for what little support anyone might find from them. If this is true, recovery usually is 6months later for only ~60% or the people, and like most vaccine injured people I am sure it is just a point of delusional fantasy or a genetic predisposition unrelated to any experimental drugs he has been using, as has been claimed for all vaccine injured. Or might he simply be background noise…His Excellency Governor Noise. We will see. He will have to make an appearance sooner or later, or he won’t. We will be informed either way. It was reported that he came out at a private function, but it turned out that it was not him. His missing the Climate Summit was significant, which was reinforced by a lack of explanation, which likely gave rise to many of these speculations.
As I say, I wish no vaccine injury on anyone, not even a governor who is as detrimental to his state as this man has been. If he is injured it will be a notable finding, but these compounds are safe and effective, right…so I am sure he is perfectly fine. Like with all things, time will tell the tale and I look forward to his ruinous return to further profit while wrecking his state while further infringing on his public’s right of personal authority.
@Peloni, I can explain Newsom’s absence in public. He was embarrassed to show his face in public due to the horrific job he is doing!!!
Or was he so stoned he could not get on the plane to Scotland. I have inside information from unnamed and unreliable sources that this is true!!!
I have seen numerous reports of why Gov. Newsome of California has not been seen since shortly after he received his 3rd jab, roughly 2wks ago. Steve Kirsch, a philanthropist and researcher who has taken it upon himself to dive headlong into the Covid vaccine dispute since last May, has received information that Newsome has suffered a vaccine injury, either Bells Palsy or Gillian Barre. Kirsch claims he has a very good sources for this info, but can not reveal it. One is a friend and two are attorneys. Additonally, Alex Berenson has alluded to a vax injury as well as numerous other internet sleuths. It was shocking that Captain Climate himself recently cancelled attending the world climate summit without explanation.
No one should suffer such a senseless harm as being injured due to a faulty vaccine product. Though it might serve us all well to have a vaccine advocate speak openly on the topic of vaccine injury, and if these reports are true, Newsome will have to do so. In spite of him being a source for forcing such needless tragedies on others including children, I hope his injury is not life-threatening. I one day hope to count him among those sentenced for their role in this terrible debacle.
@Marjorie
I am glad you found the link helpful. Dynamite is a very good description. A few hours after this interview, McCullough gave a short speech in FL(https://rumble.com/vovpjk-florida-covid-summit-dr.-peter-mccullough-vaccines-and-children.html) at the Covid Symposium in Ocala(I think), which was only slightly redundant to the interview. In his speech McCullough describes this pandemic to be a disease of medical tyranny. I greatly appreciate his description of this fact. India has cured their viral outbreak in a state the 2/3 the size of the US using Covid early treatment packs distributed to their public. It has been 5 months since this miraculous feat was accomplished and yet the great medical nations of the world, including the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Israel, and others, have each sought to ignore this practical treatment to end the viral outbreaks in their nations while thousands die daily world-wide. When will some nation or some state come to realize that the use of home treatment kits is the key to saving their public from harm as India demonstrated so clearly. Somewhere some rebellious governor or legislature will eventually pursue this avenue of action to protect their public from continued harms and risk of death by exposing the frivolous loss of life these medical tyrants have cost us – something we might describe as a Covid Sanctuary State or Country. It sickens me that India of all nations alone has treated this situation as a serious disease as India alone has ended their plague. Treatment is available to everyone everywhere. There is no magic treatment. It is a disease that involves inflammation and blood clots. We know full well how to treat these and we know full well how to help limit the damage by treating early.
Another case of a difficult to explain death of an athlete “before his time.” Although Feliciano did have health probelms over the years, it is odd that he was well enough to “go jet skiing” with his family. The article mentiones that he had some injuries related to his pitching career, such as dislocated discs and rotator muscle, and back pain. But there is no mention of his suffering from a life-threatening illness at the time when he suddenly “died in his sleep.”after spending the day doing vigorous exercise.
Another athlete vaccination victim?
I just want to say thank you to the commenters here, and especially to peloni1986. I have just listened to Peter McCullough at the link he provided. Dynamite. I have learned so much about this fake pandemic (not fake Covid but numbers of Covid deaths have been vastly inflated here in the U.S.) and the hazards of the Covid inoculations from this site and the people who comment here that I am very grateful.
@Adam
Sorry I should have made it clear. It is linked in the article above that Ted posted. Here is the link:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3949410
It is authored by Prf.Nordstrom of the Umea University. I am not familiar with the authors or the institution, for what it’s worth. It was one of several studies that were published in the past few weeks that have displayed the rapid waning of the vaccine efficacy. They each pushed the need of the 3rd shot as the obvious solution, since treatment can not be mentioned in order to get published and further funding.
The study was a very large retrospective study, complete with all the limitations of a retrospective study of course, but it was well matched which helps offset this concern. Given this, they actually displayed very poor results from the vaccine. After about 4months(120 days) the efficacy is down to about ~50%, which means you can’t wait til 6months for boosters, you’d have to boost at 3months or deal with significant breakthroughs. Of course, the authors don’t highlight this fact, but rather simply state
The statistical support for these findings were very high p<0.001 which means less than 1 in 1000 chance these results were base on chance, which is pretty good. That being stated it needs to be proven in a prospective study, which they will never do.
The study had a bit of something for everyone, the booster champions show there is a need for some action, while those concerned with the jabs note the limited usefulness of the shots.
Peloni, you mention a “Swedish study” but don’t provide any information about it. Who wrote it, where was it published? Where can we find it on the web?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/toxicology-reports/special-issue/10BP4R248MG. This is the link to the entire issue of ScienceDirect-Toxicology Reports, published by Elsevier. Elservier calls it a Special Issue. In addition to Dr. Kristoff’s report that I have cited above, “Why are we vaccinating children against COVID-19?” it contains at least nine other articles concerned with the Covid19, the vaccines being used for it, and the dangerousness of these vaccines. All are based on thorough scientific studies.
I hope that Peloni will read the Kristoff report and the 8-9 other reports in this issue of ScienceDirect and give us his evaluation of these articles, and any comments and observations he may have about them.
Peloni mentions the Kristof report, which was published in the medical journal published by the Elsevier drug company. You could find it at https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S221475002100161X?token=53CDB72C779BB2B017BD78EB69279F8B42F4DE548BB97CB509FD6B0ACC329D6733AF59818ECCD19C118A9F55B1535053&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20211108210649. Israpundit’s length requirement means that I can’t post the whole article as a comment. But I have posted the introduction here. By please use the link to read the whole article. It is extremely well researched and thoroughly documented. Fully supports Peloni’s and Dr. McCullough’s conclusions.
Did big pharma exaggerated or simply lied about the quality of their products?
Creating “concepts” such as “effectiveness” to hide the absence of long term evidences?
Still we do not have long term negative effects!
The propaganda goes unabated.
Crimes against humanity have been committed. The MSM are complicit!
And the world still supports the winter Olympics in China!!!!
Important interview from Dr. McCullough.
https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=6185b407e19ed5372ded8319
Here are some highlights
This covers about the first half of the hour long interview.
The evaluation of the Swedish study, which I have yet to share, was more striking than reported here. Among the findings of Swedish research was this tidbit of insight:
This concept of effectiveness against severe illness has to be explained better, as apples and bananas are being compared, but even advantaging the vaccine group in all the ways we have discussed in recent months, the very people who need the vaccine’s protection, the old and the ill, are those who are betrayed without it. So who is left to gain this “effectiveness against severe illness” protection? Those who never needed the protection – the young and the healthy do not need to be protected to survive without serious illness. And of course, this is all without the use of early treatment. And this entire article ignores the reality of safety alarms which are screaming BEWARE – MYOCARDITIS, CARDIOVASCULAR INJURY, NEUROLOGICAL INJURY & IMMUNOLOGICAL INJURY.