Agreed, I'm not sure of the value of continuing to target the original virus, but it sounds like Novavax offers decent protection against known variants also.

More interestingly, their vaccine directly exposes you to the spike protein, rather than telling your body to fabricate it.

Or if he is needing a booster shot... yeah, that's a little harder right now. I think some trial participants (in England?) were approved for taking a different vaccine as a booster, but if can possibly hold out, waiting for more Novavax seems to make more sense to me.

It makes sense that vaccine producers would be popular companies during two years of pandemic.

It should also be noted that even in the US, the bastion of economic liberalism and extreme capitalism, only 15% of all families own stock[1].

Also, it was reported a couple off days ago that 89% of all stock are owned by only 10% of americans[2]. So, Bill Gates owning stock is not relevant or meaningful.

Lastly, Bill Gates at most invested 55 million on BioNTech[3]. We're talking about a guy whose fortune is evaluated at around 135 BILLION dollars. To put things in perspective, this is equivalent to a guy who has $1 million investing $350 on a company. Come on.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2020/08/31/mo...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...

[3] https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

"Successful recoveries" alone is not an indication that you are now immune to COVID-19 or able to handle a reinfection well. There are reported cases of reinfections, with the second COVID-19 infection being far more serious and even deadly.

Also, it has been observed that vaccination ensures a better antibody response to some variants than a prior infection.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

Even though none of the current batch of vaccines ensure perfect immunity, they all do ensure that the immune response to subsequent infections is good enough to not even warrant any additional care beyond quarantine to avoid transmitting to anyone else.

Anyone can find answers to those questions with a quick Google search. What happened to "I do my own research"?

Correct interpretation of research is more important than finding this or that paper. Kentucky study was not about antibody response so I'm not sure how you are using that to back up your assertion. Instead it was a theoretically more direct look in to patient outcomes, however follow own studies over larger populations seem to be in tension with the Kentucky result.

Do you understand that statistics are calculated from reported cases? I mean, statistics is literally the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.

Congress is going to hold blue chip stocks..what specious argument are you're trying to make?

COVID deaths ages 0-17: 542, out of a total of 723,880 total COVID deaths.

0.075% of COVID deaths.

Perhaps the New York Times newspiece from a couple months ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/health/coronavirus-childr...