Elon Musk casts doubt on whether a 2nd COVID booster helps or hurts. Here's what studies show.

[Eugene]

Source: Yahoo! News

Elon Musk casts doubt on whether a 2nd COVID booster helps or hurts. Here’s what studies show.

Rebecca Corey·Writer and Reporter
Thu, January 12, 2023 at 4:26 PM EST·4 min read

Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk waded into a discussion about COVID-19 boosters in a tweet on Wednesday, with the billionaire claiming that it “isn’t clear whether, all things considered, a second booster helps or hurts.”

Despite a surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide and waning immunity against the disease, Musk’s remark comes at a time when less than 40% of people age 65 and older have received a bivalent booster, according to the CDC, with officials blaming misinformation for the low number of vaccinations.

Is a second COVID-19 booster effective?

Updated bivalent boosters designed to protect against both the original coronavirus strain and circulating Omicron variants became available in September for people 12 and older, in October for children 5-11 and in December for children 6 months to 4 years old who completed the Moderna vaccine primary series.

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“Evolving evidence from studies suggests that additional protection of the most vulnerable populations, at least for several months, is likely to be achieved through administration of a second booster dose, although follow-up time for these studies is limited,” the statement continued.

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[jimfields33]

1. Well the sales pitch is vulnerable people. No wonder most haven't gotten it.

They should have said everyone should get one to protect themselves from the new variants. Also that last sentence doesn’t really offer positiveness.

[Lovie777]

2. Musk probably got one .....

majority of the huge anti-vaccine protesters have gotten all of them, and that includes Musk. I guess in their tiny little minds survival of the fittest only pertains to the misinformed.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Musk is a buffoon.

Who cares what that clown thinks.

[JohnSJ]

4. "or hurts"? What an absolute idiot. He has been been given way too much credit as some someone

with superior knowledge on any subject he chooses to drift into, when the reality is that he is just a self-proclaimed “know-it-all”, with very limited knowledge outside his sphere of knowledge

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Why does Eloon's opinion on everything need to be reported?

[PortTack]

8. Seriously! He has no credentials, and actually little to no higher education

[samnsara]

6. musk is irrelevant

[Biophilic]

7. I seriously don't understand why anyone listens to this man.

Especially about anything except maybe cars and rockets to Mars.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Pfffttttt.

Why should anyone with half a brain believe something that Eloon says? Or is he claiming to have a medical degree now?