DWQA QuestionsCategory: Coronavirus COVID-19Will the booster shot as a follow-up to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines be more toxic than the initial vaccination in causing a repeat exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, analogous to what you have warned will be more severe consequences with repeated actual infections with the virus?
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
We see the insult as being equivalent to what happens with the original vaccination. There will be more abreactions because of the prior sensitization priming the recipient to view this as a more severe challenge, because it will trigger remaining immunity to ramp up a response. The timetable for receiving the booster will be a general figure and many will still retain significant immunity who receive the booster and it will produce more symptoms than would be the case for a naïve individual exposed for the first time to an inoculation. So this is very much a strategy based on compromise, and with humans being highly variable, will help some more than others and harm some more than others, just like with the primary vaccination itself. But it will, in general, be helpful on average more than harmful, as with the initial vaccination. It is an open question at present in how long a period of time repeated booster shots can be given before too many develop discernible long-lasting consequences from repeated insults from spike protein production within the body. As you know, some are more sensitive than others, so more will be showing up with symptoms the more they are exposed to subsequent vaccinations. This simply cannot be avoided with the current technology in the approach being designed to work in this fashion.