Are boosters working well, or are they total garbage?

Lucky number 13! How are boosters, and the vaccine overall, working to prevent serious cases of COVID-19? A quick internet search will STILL return a slew of articles praising vaccine efficacy and trashing the half of Americans who still haven’t gotten in line and gotten vaccinated or boosted (if you’re an anti-vaxxer, the narrative is still that this is all your fault).

So here are just a few of the stories about how boosters are actually working (or rather, NOT working) so that you don’t have to dig so far to find what you need to make an informed decision.

Denmark’s new vaccination policy says that, despite anticipating a RISE in cases this coming Fall, they are now only offering vaccines/boosters to people over the age of 50 or at risk of serious illness.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/denmark-ends-covid-vaccinations-for-981

https://www.sst.dk/en/english/corona-eng/vaccination-against-covid-19

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2022057508/188025/Risk-of-Myopericarditis-After-COVID-19-Vaccination?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Britain’s latest data paints a grim picture of risk of COVID-19 hospitalization for those who have recently been boosted: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/do-boosters-save-people-from-getting

Australia’s latest all-cause mortality trends look drastically awful (they happen to have about 95% of their population vaccinated and boosted): https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-deaths-are-soaring-in-one/comments

Here is where I compared state-level booster rates in the U.S. against state-level COVID-19 hospitalizations:
- State booster rates: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/states-ranked-by-booster-rates.html
- State hospitalization rates: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-covid-19-hospitalization-rates-august-2.html

Here is the CDC saying that 44% of recent COVID-19 hospitalizations had their 3rd or 4th dose (or booster): https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/980351?src=mkm_ret_220912_mscpmrk_trdalrtuk03_int&uac=127834AR&impID=4631827&faf=1

Here are President Joe Biden’s remarks about how he has beaten Big Pharma (lol): https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/05/remarks-by-president-biden-celebrating-labor-day-and-the-dignity-of-american-workers/

Here is the list of the top 20 politicians big Pharma has donated to from 2019-2020, where Biden holds the top spot comfortably: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2020&ind=H04

Here are just a couple of many analyses of Biden’s policies by which he promises to lower Rx drug costs, which all ultimately conclude his policies will leave Big Pharma unscathed (shocker): https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/promise/1561/lower-cost-prescription-drugs/

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/biden-s-medicare-drug-price-negotiations-will-leave-pharma-mostly-unscathed-cbo
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