The Republicans in Congress have gotten some interesting answers to their questions about COVID-19. One National Institute of Health (NIH) official finally admitted that gain-of-function research was being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, suspected of being ground zero for the COVID pandemic. The statements came as part of testimony given to the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic.
The firm’s president indicated the intelligence community was aware of the coronavirus experiments at the institute years before the pandemic.
Now, two Congressmen want answers related to the actual efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Reps. Jim Jordan and Thomas Massie threatened Thursday to subpoena the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for records related to COVID-19 vaccine efficacy among those already infected with the virus.Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Massie (R-Ky.), the chairman of its subcommittee on the administrative state, made the threat in a letter to CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen — which was exclusively obtained by The Post — as part of their investigation into the effectiveness of federally mandated COVID jabs.If the CDC does not turn over information by May 30, both GOP chairs vowed they would “resort to compulsory process in order to obtain it.”“On December 6, 2023, Chairman Massie wrote to request documents and information related to a CDC study released on October 29, 2021[,] that supposedly supported the CDC’s inaccurate claims about vaccine efficacy,” Jordan and Massie told Cohen.“The CDC has continued to promote some of this information, even after being notified that its messaging was inaccurate, and remains steadfast in its insistence that these inaccurate representations are correct,” they said.
Americans are skeptical about how well the vaccinations are working against a virus that vaccinated people still catch and transmit.
The percent of the adult population reporting receipt of the updated 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccine is 14.4%.
There is a push to promote regular boosters to protect people from other coronaviruses.
Powerful COVID vaccines could be setting people’s immune systems up to successfully fight off not just future COVID variants, but other types of coronaviruses as well, a new study shows.People repeatedly vaccinated for COVID — the initial shots, followed by boosters and updated vaccines — generate antibodies capable of neutralizing not just COVID variants, but even some distantly related coronaviruses, researchers reported May 17 in the journal Nature.It appears that periodic re-vaccination for COVID might cause people to gradually build up a stock of antibodies that protect them from a variety of coronaviruses, researchers concluded.
There is a regular push to scare people about the variant du jour. Apparently, the new variant may be more evasive from any already established covid immunity response.
We know the FLiRT variants have two mutations on their spike proteins (the spike-shaped protrusions on the surface of the virus) that weren’t seen on JN.1 (the previously dominant strain in the U.S.). Some experts say these mutations could make it easier for the virus to evade people’s immunity—from the vaccine or a previous bout of COVID.But, the fact that the FLiRT variants are otherwise genetically similar to JN.1 should be reassuring, Dr. Roberts says. “While JN.1 occurred during the winter months, when people gather indoors and the virus is more likely to spread, its symptoms were milder than those caused by variants in the early years of the pandemic,” he says.There is no news yet about whether a COVID illness will be more severe with the FLiRT variants or how symptoms might change.
I sure hope the Congressmen get the answers they seek. The responses should be very illuminating.
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