Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron ~37-fold

Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by skuhn on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:20AM (#29624046)

Your claim is directly contradicted by the abstract of the paper you linked to:

"We estimated an extra two (95% confidence interval (CI) 0, 3), one (95% CI 0, 2) and six (95% CI 2, 8) myocarditis events per 1 million people vaccinated with ChAdOx1, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, respectively, in the 28 days following a first dose and an extra ten (95% CI 7, 11) myocarditis events per 1 million vaccinated in the 28 days after a second dose of mRNA-1273. This compares with an extra 40 (95% CI 38, 41) myocarditis events per 1 million patients in the 28 days following a SARS-CoV-2 positive test."

1 shot of mRNA vaccine = 6 per 1 million = 0.0006%

2 shot of mRNA vaccine = 10 per 1 million = 0.001%

COVID infection = 40 per 1 million = 0.004%

COVID infection has a 4 times higher chance of myocarditis than the vaccine. It also has significantly higher risks of many other things, some of which are also touched on in the abstract.

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Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by hcurtiss on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:13AM (#29624528)

I’m not so sure 1 and 2 preclude 3. Is it not increasingly likely you get it even if vaccinated, especially with Omicron, thereby suffering the increased risk of all three (four with booster?)?

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Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by dahfizz on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:54AM (#29624929)

Its also not a guarantee you get Covid. Current stats are that 50 / 330 million of the USA population have had Covid. So comparing the risk factors of the vaccine to covid directly is a bit misleading, IMO.

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Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by peteradio on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:32AM (#29625297)

He's referring to the under 40 group which is indeed supported by the paper to say there's double the number of myocarditus events per pop group among those who were double moderna vacc vs sars-cov2 infected.

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Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by dahfizz on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:12AM (#29624512)

OPs comment is deleted, so I can't see the paper.

Is there a reason to believe the risk of myocarditis will continue to rise with each booster?

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Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by incrudible on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:37AM (#29624761)

The comment is flagged by the "community", not deleted. You can see it by turning on "showdead" in the settings.

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Re:Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels ag... by dahfizz on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:50AM (#29624890)

Cool, thanks!

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