Top FDA Official and Doctor Never Took COVID Vaccine

[nanana]

[think before following links] https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/top-fda-official-discloses-she-never-received-covid-19-vaccine

[brnbk]

She never stated if she has ever tested positive for CoVID or not.

My suspicion  is that she would have been infected with COVID at some point and given her training as a preventative medicine doctor figured she already had enough immunity that the average CoVID shot would give her and so skipped the general shots.

Experts can make themselves look like us average folks but it is important to read between the lines. 

 

[nanana]

Hi @brnbk,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.  I saw her speak, and her concern was for the effect of the MRNA vaccine on her pregnancy and her fetus.  She also was a strong advocate of medical freedom and believed that each of us owns our own health, and that doctors are advisors but do not get to take over our health choices.  

If your suspicion is correct, this would still put her at odds with the US Federal guidance of that era that natural immunity is inferior to the Pfizer or Moderna shot.  

Can you help explain how you are making sense of whether or not she already had COVID?  I agree with you that it is important to read between the lines, but I  am having a hard connecting the dots on your hypothesis.  

Thank you! 

[tallslenderguy]

The hospital where i work opened a dedicated Covid unit the first week of February 2020, i have >1600 hours caring for Covid+ patients, i had the hospitals first Covid patient.  It was a new virus that rapidly mutated, and much of our understanding based on evidence is retrospective, because there simply was not any long term study evidence on a new virus to be had.  I was the second person to get the vaccine at our hospital in December 2020. I did not make the decision easily, but after a year of watching patients die, with still little understanding or treatment available, i opted for the vaccine. Of course, there was only short term evidence available. Really, it was pretty amazing that a vaccine was available so early on.  i knew first hand the risk of the variant we were dealing with at the time, and i knew of the potential risks of the vaccine. Neither was an easy choice, but i opted for the vaccine, and have had several boosters since. The current variants are more akin to the flu than the original Covid variants, they are less virulent, so the decision to get vaccinated now against Covid, to me, is similar to deciding on a flu vaccine.

When the first vaccine came out, we still did not know how much immunity having had the disease would confer, so a decision to opt out of the vaccine when it came out would have been speculative.  Given the efficacy of the vaccine, and our current knowledge of the virus, the virus does not confer immunity after being infected. The vaccine prevents or lessens severity of infection. When the first couple iterations of the vaccine came out, the delta variant of the covid virus was still particularly deadly, usually because it evoked a cytokine response that would overwhelm and essentially drown it's victims in cement ("cytokine storm"). I have not seen this severe of a response in the more recent infections, most of the people hospitalized (far fewer) have co-morbidities that put them more at risk. 

 

[BlueSaphir]

Any doctors or medical professionals who are against it, I would put a side eye on them. 
My health care professional from all specialties within City of Hope advocate everyone to get the vaccine. I have total of three. And I am still healthy and not having any complications from the vaccines.