{"id":1299189,"date":"2022-02-15T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299189"},"modified":"2022-02-15T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:52:43","slug":"omicron-targeted-vaccines-do-no-better-than-original-jabs-early-tests-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omicron-targeted-vaccines-do-no-better-than-original-jabs-early-tests-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron-Targeted Vaccines Do No Better Than Original Jabs, Early Tests Suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomicron-targeted-vaccines-do-no-better-than-original-jabs-early-tests-suggest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/vax-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread across the U.S., new data shows that booster shots specifically targeting the more transmissible strain are no better than boosters of the original vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>While the studies on animals are small \u2014 one was tested on just eight primates \u2014 and have not been reviewed by peers, as is common in scientific studies, the early data are not promising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing coming out of these preclinical studies in animal models is that a boost with a variant vaccine doesn\u2019t really do any better than a boost with the current vaccine,\u201d says David Montefiori, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, who has been researching COVID-19 vaccines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00003-y?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=nature&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1644879093\">according<\/a> to Nature magazine. The magazine reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>One study examined the immune responses of eight rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) that received three doses of vaccine: two doses of Moderna\u2019s original vaccine and a booster of either the same shot or a version that incorporated Omicron\u2019s heavily mutated spike protein, which the virus uses to enter human cells. The authors found that monkeys boosted with either vaccine mounted a broad antibody response against all variants of concern, including Omicron. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Consistent with the primate results, a study in mice found that giving an Omicron-matched booster after two doses of mRNA-based vaccine offered no more benefit than a standard booster. The study also looked at the Omicron-specific vaccine in \u2018naive\u2019 mice \u2014 those that had not previously been immunized \u2014 and found that the rodents produced high levels of potent antibodies against Omicron. But those antibodies had a limited ability to inhibit other key variants of COVID-19. A separate study in naive mice immunized with an Omicron-matched mRNA vaccine reported similar results.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new data comes as scientists are warning that the next SARS-CoV-2 variant to emerge could well be more dangerous than the latest strain to emerge, Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mark Woolhouse of Edinburgh University said it is unknown where the next variant will come from but noted that Omicron did not emerge from the previous variant, Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Omicron \u201ccame from a completely different part of the virus\u2019s family tree. And since we don\u2019t know where in the virus\u2019s family tree a new variant is going to come from, we cannot know how pathogenic it might be. It could be less pathogenic but it could, just as easily, be more pathogenic,\u201d he told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist\u2019s opinion was supported by Professor Lawrence Young of Warwick University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople seem to think there has been a linear evolution of the virus from Alpha to Beta to Delta to Omicron,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/next-covid-variant-may-be-more-dangerous-than-omicron-say-scientists-453061\">The Observer<\/a>. \u201cBut that is simply not the case. The idea that virus variants will continue to get milder is wrong. A new one could turn out to be even more pathogenic than the Delta variant, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread across the U.S., new data shows that booster shots specifically targeting the more transmissible strain are no better than boosters of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}