Originally published June 4, 2023 9:10 pm PDT
Despite the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation in September 2022 that all vaccinated people 12 years and older should receive a booster dose, a large majority of Americans have not received the shot.
A new study from the agency revealed that adults who weren’t current on their vaccine booster doses but who had nevertheless received a COVID vaccine may have “relatively little remaining protection” against hospitalization compared to those who haven’t been vaccinated at all.
“For adults, the vaccine effectiveness dropped from 62% at two months after vaccination to 24% at four to six months for protection against COVID-19 hospitalization,” said Dr. Shana Johnson, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Johnson also admitted that “durability or duration of protection [from the COVID vaccine] was not great.”
Only 1 in 5 (20.5%) of U.S. adults had received a bivalent booster dose as of May 10, 2023, according to the CDC.
Professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center Dr. Marc Siegel confirmed to Fox News Digital that “Uptake has been quite low.”
The public’s refusal to take more vaccines could be due to an increase in understanding that too many COVID vaccinations leads to decreased protection.
For example, researchers have cautioned that “over-vaccination” could weaken the alleged protection provided by the COVID vaccine, according to a new study published this month in the journal Vaccines, American Faith reported last month.
The study also suggests that if this happens, both newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients and people re-infected with the virus could have a more severe case of the disease.
The researchers conclude that the “conventional SARS-CoV-2 vaccine’s ability to provide immunological protection may be significantly impacted by over-vaccination.”
In addition, they caution, “If this happens, either newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases or people who have already contracted the virus again may have a more severe case of the illness.”
This is due to “prolonged booster immunization doses.”
Startlingly, the study authors revealed that increased IgG4, a specific type of antibody, from over-vaccination can even “cause autoimmune diseases,” “promote cancer growth,” and induce heart disease.
“Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals,” they write.
