Moderna CEO Says 3rd Vaccine Shot Likely Needed ‘Prior To The Winter Season’

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David Rufful
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According to Moderna, a third booster shot will likely be needed “prior to the Winter Season.”

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel revealed information regarding his company’s COVID-19 booster vaccine, Fox News reports.

He said that “when we see the totality of the data, we’ll take the best booster.” Bancel then explained that some people could “get the booster as soon as September.”

However, he says his company is “waiting for a bit more data,” which surely won’t produce strong public confidence in the “booster.”

Below is the press release from Moderna. As it’s been widely reported, some people who are fully vaccinated are still being diagnosed with Covid-19, partially due to the “delta variant.”

A new report shows that COVID vaccines have helped create nine new billionaires with “a combined wealth greater than the cost of vaccinating the world’s poorest countries.”

The People’s Vaccine Alliance confirmed that “at least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.”

This news came ahead of a G20 leaders Global Health Summit.

This new wealth is due to “the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines are making.”

The nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion.

This is enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries 1.3 times, the report claims.

However, low-income countries have received only 0.2 percent of the global supply of vaccines while being home to 10 percent of the world’s population.

TRENDING 👇 Transgender Weightlifter Loses at Olympics

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard competed as the first transgender athlete in the Olympics.

Hubbard, who transitioned at age 35, competes against women in weightlifting. Hubbard, who is now 43, entered Olympic competition after eight years following the transition. Hubbard went through male puberty then qualified to joined New Zealand’s team in weightlifting and compete for gold.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made its decision to allow transgender athletes to compete. “We have to pay tribute to her courage,” the IOC said. However, Hubbard quickly learned her fate at the Olympics. She failed in the women’s +87kg weightlifting.

Hubbard had three attempts. In the first attempt, the weightlifter tried to lift 120kg and failed. In the second attempt, Hubbard lifted a “very shaky” 125kg. One of the female commentators reportedly said it’s “very surprising that the questionable 125kg lift wasn’t challenged with an appeal.”

Hubbard failed to lift the 125kg on the third attempt which removed the weightlifter from the competition.

The IOC’s medical and science director — Dr. Richard Budgett — acknowledged that Hubbard competing in weightlifting was “large, difficult and complex,” Fox News reported. While transgender athletes are required to demonstrate that their testosterone level is below a specific measurement for at least 12 months prior to their first competition, serious questions remain whether decades of higher testosterone levels have already produced significant muscle growth and maturity, which give Hubbard an unfair advantage against her fellow female competitors.