COVID-19 Vaccine Propaganda

There is so much COVID-19 Vaccine propaganda that governments, industry, and media have scarcely offered denials.

NIAID chief Dr. Anthony Fauci stated during an MSNBC interview while talking about China that lockdowns are needed to get people vaccinated.¹⁾

• Dec 15, 2021 - The Journal of the American Medical Association published a strawman article that appears to illegally encourage participation in a medical experiment.²⁾

The Saskatchewan Heath Authority (SHA) published a video series "Kids Talk to Docs", specifically directed to young children. One of the videos in the series is entitled, "Can I Play With Unvaccinated Friends?", in which a very young child asks, “What if my friends don't get the vaccine; can I still play with them?” Dr. Tania Diener, Medical Health Officer for SHA answers, “I think it is really important that everyone you are going to play with are vaccinated.” Dr. Diener then directs this child to ask her friend “why he or she doesn't want to get vaccinated.”

• October 27, 2021 - An article in the Australian publication, The Conversation, states the unbalanced view that the unvaccinated are “20 times more likely to give you COVID” despite citing no evidence that vaccination reduces transmission.³⁾

• More updates on BBC2 documentary “Unvaccinated”⁴⁾

Your questions about coronavirus vaccines, answered (much more at site)

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Aaron Steckelberg, Lena H. Sun, Laurie McGinley, Allyson Chiu and Marisa Iati Updated May 24. 2021

Five months after the first coronavirus vaccine doses were administered to U.S. health-care workers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced May 13 that fully immunized people can safely resume most of their pre-pandemic activities. As vaccine supply outstrips demand, health officials are trying to persuade holdouts to get their shots. Here are answers to some frequent questions.

What can I do after I get vaccinated? Can I return to my old activities?

The CDC says that if you are fully vaccinated, you can resume all your usual activities without masks or physical distancing in most cases, even when you are indoors or in large groups. However, you still need to follow guidance at your workplace and any rules in effect at any businesses you visit, as well as state and local restrictions, if those are more stringent.

If you travel, you are still required to wear a mask on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transportation.

You are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after you receive the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot, or two weeks after the second dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.

Even after that point, you should still watch out for symptoms of covid-19, especially if you’ve been around someone who is sick. If you have symptoms, you should get tested and stay home and away from others.

If you have a compromised immune system, or are taking medications such as steroids that weaken the immune system, you should talk to your health-care provider to discuss your activities. You may need to keep taking precautions to prevent covid-19.

You do not need to quarantine or be tested if you are exposed to the virus as long as you do not develop symptoms. Fully vaccinated employees of high-density workplaces, such as meatpacking plants, who do not have symptoms also do not need to quarantine after an exposure. But a test is recommended to be certain.

Fully vaccinated international travelers coming to the United States are still required to get tested within three days of their arrival or show documentation that they’ve recovered from covid-19 in the past three months. They should still get tested three to five days after their trip.

The CDC updated its previously more cautious guidance on May 13, citing falling infection rates in the United States and real-world evidence of the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines even against more contagious variants circulating in the country. Officials also noted the rarity of breakthrough infections in those who are fully vaccinated and the lesser severity of the relatively few infections that have occurred.

What if I have a compromised immune system? What if I have children who cannot yet get vaccinated? What you need to know about the vaccines Are the vaccines safe?

All the vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — passed rigorous safety reviews. Some experts expressed qualms about using emergency-use authorizations for coronavirus vaccines that would be given to hundreds of millions of people, but those criticisms have become muted as the pandemic has raged, killing thousands of Americans a week.

Peter Marks, director of the FDA center that oversees vaccines, pledged to use an emergency standard roughly equivalent to what is needed for a full licensure. Even so, the available safety data — two months of follow-up on half the trials’ participants after their second shots — is shorter than in traditional trials. And some questions, such as the duration of protection, cannot be answered now. That data will be collected as the trials continue. What are the possible side effects?

Before authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for people ages 16 and over, the FDA reviewed data from 44,000 participants in a randomized clinical trial. A 53-page analysis by the agency found that some people who received injections had unpleasant but tolerable side effects, including fatigue, headaches, muscle pain, joint pain, chills and fever.

For adolescents, the most common side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were similar to those seen in adults but occurred somewhat more frequently. For example, 63 percent of participants 16 and older reported fatigue, but 78 percent of those 12 to 15 years old did. The vaccine also has caused very rare anaphylactic reactions.

The FDA cleared the Moderna vaccine for people ages 18 and over, based on data from a clinical trial with 30,000 participants. The agency found that its side effects were similar to those with the Pfizer-BioNTech shot. For both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, side effects were most common after the second dose. ⁵⁾