Boosters

I don't doubt it but the talk to date has only got as far as at risk groups. I also wonder about the need for boosters right now, especially population-wide. It would be preferable to have such stocks in unvaccinated arms in places who really need them.

I don't see the Pfizer (or Moderna) supply being exported anytime soon, they will be in Ireland along with the usual deliveries and will get used in Ireland.

If you believe the death rate for a second then i am not the ignorant one here. Last April my family member came home and told me that they were being told to write covid 19 on the death certificates of a couple who had been thrown through the windscreen of their car and died on the way to hospital. That was the first I heard of anything. The hospitals were empty, nurses being laid off due to lack of patients , while the media was telling us at the same hospital, bodies were piling up in the parking lot?!

I was living in the middle of it while you were home in watching CNN.

Maybe you should move to Australia where the government will keep you nice and safe from the 4 cases of covid and the army will beat you back into your house if you dare to go out and get some fresh air and vitamin d.

Since you have assumed so much about me being a conspiracy theorist, anti vax, ignorant trump supporter, I’d assume you are unemployed, depending on the government to feed you so you can watch the news all day and judge people on forums? I’d be interested to know what your BMI is also since you asked what I do with my body? I hope ,being so in fear of covid that you are not over weight like 75% of people in hospital?

Are you saying a Doctor/Coroner was told to falsify a cause of death? By who?

Were there reports of bodies piling up outside hospitals? My wife is an A&E Dr, they cleared out the hospitals in anticipation of the onslaught of cases that were expected, but the lockdown last year averted that catastrophe.

It has been widely reported that vaccinated people can still contract and pass on the virus. Nothing untrue about that. Also, if they can't even settle on the dose amount, if boosters are require, lasting efficacy of the vaccines I don't think you can say they know everything about the vaccines effectiveness and future use.

Yes that’s what I’m saying, In the u.s , specifically a privately owned for profit hoapital. Mostly because the hospitals being mostly empty were loosing millions with surgeries being cancelled and the sick afraid to go to a hospital. Each covid related death is a big pay out for that hospital. Its common knowledge by now over in the u.s. that the numbers have been exaggerated in order to fund the hospitals and pay staff. Of course there were genuine covid related deaths just not the numbers they are reporting.

NurseErin was a nurse in nyc last year when covid was at it’s peak , watch “undercover epicenter nurse”if you don’t believe me.

I would never step foot in a hospital in the u.s and think we are blessed with health care in Ireland.

I'm pretty much in the least risk group for everything with COVID, but thanks for asking :)

Also good to know there's not much critical thought going on behind the future meme dumps.

If you are asking is this the first time I have heard of a Dr/Hospital policy of falsifying causes of death for profit, yes it is. Are you saying Hospitals are telling staff to record deaths due to car crashes, gunshot wounds, work place accidents etc as deaths due to Covid, so the hospital can earn more money to pay wages?

Have you any comprehension of how that would play out for the families, or litigation relating to both the actual cause, and indeed the Hospital?

Stating that a Doctor was instructed to falsely state cause of death as Covid, for a couple who died in a car crash, so the Hospital will profit is a bit out there, don’t you think? Surely you must have questioned your relative about the veracity of the claim.

Just so you know, in the US, falsifying medical records is a Federal offence. As you live there, you know what that means.

I think what people are saying is that, sure, you can get death certs entered wrongly, it happens, however, very rarely.

It is something that can be litigated for and have people up on malpractice charges, it's a pretty stupid way for a doctor/consultant to lose their license if proven (and a car crash victim case would be easily proved), the cost of getting caught is way higher than any small benefit.

Unless you're into COVID being a global hoax, but there's a different forum for that.

We hear a lot of stupid claims, but most people here, we hope, look at the source and are not stupid, Gemma O’Doherty followers being the exception.

Oh I saw her videos last year , if I’m being put in the same category as her I need to delete my account .

It looks as like US is considering reducing boosters from 8 months to 5 after Biden met with the Israeli PM today.

Vaccinated people are less likely to catch and pass on the virus. a vaccinated person is less a danger to society than an unvaccinated one. that is not in doubt.

A booster may reduce the transmission of the virus further so that it cannot get going again. Ireland should carefully observe what is happening in Israel.