I noticed this afternoon, that via a Focus update....the Premier-President of Bavaria (Soder) is now suggesting that whatever status you had for vaccination purposes (meaning the date of your second shot).....Soder is suggesting in nine months time....that your status goes away unless you do the booster.
The chief problem of the suggestion? Well.....all of the mass inoculation centers have been shut down and the emphasis by the government....was that you would only be using your local doctor. No one really thought that mass boosters would be coming along (which is what Soder is pressing upon).
Is nine months the correct period? Well....if you do the math with what is currently known....then about 90 days after the second shot, you start loosing immunity (figure 10-percent per month). Somewhere around the sixth month, you probably have a limited amount of immunity. So you could suggest....already by the sixth month, you could have marginalized immunity.
Chief problem? Now you start to add up man-hours....to get teams out to retirement homes, and to get mass centers up and operational again (meaning several billion Euro to be spent).
General expectations on each vaccine? AstraZenica? Focus reports today on their effectiveness, and it's finished by the end of four months. Biontech? Seven months. Moderna? Around 60-percent still effective by the sixth month. If this study is correct....even the 9-month idea isn't good enough, and you'd have to have people on a rotating schedule every five to six months.
Selling Germans on a mass booster shot situation? The doom situation, with growing numbers of infected, and a expanding level of people going into hospitals....might be helpful in getting this 'brand' sold.
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