Law Updated: FDA advisory committee votes 16-2 against boosters

[Hadron90]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/13/fda-covid-vaccine-boosters-research-paper-511638

Two senior U.S. vaccine regulators who are leaving the FDA came out against giving Covid-19 booster shots to the general population now in a research paper published Monday that concludes current science on vaccine efficacy doesn't support giving third shots to most Americans.

The paper, co-authored by Marion Gruber and Philip Krause and published in The Lancet, deals a blow to the FDA and to the Biden administration just days before an external agency panel is set to review the case for doling out Pfizer-BioNTech boosters. The scientists recently announced plans to retire this fall, decisions one former agency official said stemmed in part from frustration with the administration's booster plan.

The main argument: The paper, which summarizes available trial data and peer-reviewed studies to date on the Covid vaccines, argues that despite waning immunity, the shots' efficacy "is substantially greater against severe disease than against any infection" and sufficiently protective for the general population.


"Even in populations with fairly high vaccination rates the unvaccinated are still the major drivers of transmission and are themselves at the highest risk of serious disease," wrote the authors, which also include World Health Organization scientists.

Even if booster shots were shown to lower the risk of serious disease, they said, existing supplies would be better off deployed to unvaccinated corners of the world, rather than boosting vaccinated populations, to head off the development of more variants.

"Careful and public scrutiny of the evolving data will be needed to assure that decisions about boosting are informed by reliable science more than by politics," they wrote.

The authors note that boosting may still be needed in the future if protection from the initial shots wanes, or if a variant forms that evades that protection. They also acknowledge the possible benefit of immediately boosting immunocompromised patients who may not have mounted a sufficient immune response to their initial vaccine series.

Now is the time to study variant-based boosters while the primary vaccines continue to be effective, they said, noting the similar strategy used to plan annual flu shot formulations.

The Biden admin are not listening to their own top scientists. The FDA's directory of the vaccine research and safety and the deputy director are both saying that there is no evidence suggesting that boosters are needed, and are resigning over Biden's plan to roll out boosters to all-Americans. They also have concerns that there is not sufficient safety data, and warn against serious side-effects like myocarditis and Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Why is the Biden administration rushing out boosters despite his own top scientists telling him not to?

https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets...213&utm_content=158920213&utm_source=hs_email

UPDATE: FDA advisory committee votes 16-2 against boosters.

 

[TUFNewb]

Yeah tell em how bad those booster shots are..

"Even in populations with fairly high vaccination rates the unvaccinated are still the major drivers of transmission and are themselves at the highest risk of serious disease"

NOOO NOT LIKE THAT!

 

[Poon Goon]

So you are saying that the original vaccines are actually good and not death injections?

 

[Sano]

Interested to see how this thread pans out.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

Several WHO health officials said boosters might not be needed this soon backing up what these people from the FDA said.

This is gonna be tough for certain people to swallow considering they hate the WHO, denigrated the institution throughout the pandemic but now they have “information” they like to hear.

this will be tough for them to swallow.



Also mentioned: boosters should be made available for people who are in certain groups with badly compromised immune systems. Meaning the vaccines work.

 

[PhitePhan]

So you are saying that the original vaccines are actually good and not death injections?

Damn man, always running interference.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Well that paper certainly seems to support people getting initially vaccinated.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

Damn man, always running interference.

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Translation: “I want to pick and choose what facts I want to believe”

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Damn man, always running interference.

The message in the OP is pretty clear that they support initial vaccinations and even says that the booster vaccines would be of better use getting more people initially vaccinated. I don't see how anyone can argue that that's the message here (not saying I agree with it or not, but that's what these people are saying).

 

[Sano]

So you are saying that the original vaccines are actually good and not death injections?

 

[adam199]

The FDA hasn't authorized boosters yet, except for in the case of immunocompromised people. We should probably wait until it actually becomes a thing before being outraged.

 

[gluehuffer1776]

but scott godlib who was head of the fda and now works for pfizer (no conflict of interest at all goyim) wants us to take boosters and 5 year olds to get the vax

 

[Ruprecht]

Well yeah, they are saying mass booster shots (as opposed to those targeted at the most vulnerable indivuduals with waning immune response) based on the relatively poor available information on their necessity or effectiveness seems unwarranted when globally there's many without access to an initial vaccination.
I don't think national politicians prioritise the global population like that though, and are those in the US that remain unvaccinated lacking the opportunity?

 

[Red Dragoniop]

@Queen B you can have my booster... dont worry

 

[Krimzon]

in conclusion, the vaccines work great, but govt and pfizer are seeing $$$ everywhere

 

[AndroidRage]

but scott godlib who was head of the fda and now works for pfizer (no conflict of interest at all goyim) wants us to take boosters and 5 year olds to get the vax

Oh look, an anti semite. Found another one @HereticBD

 

[Paradigm]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/13/fda-covid-vaccine-boosters-research-paper-511638


The Biden admin are not listening to their own top scientists. The FDA's directory of the vaccine research and safety and the deputy director are both saying that there is no evidence suggesting that boosters are needed, and are resigning over Biden's plan to roll out boosters to all-Americans. They also have concerns that there is not sufficient safety data, and warn against serious side-effects like myocarditis and Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Why is the Biden administration rushing out boosters despite his own top scientists telling him not to?

https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets...213&utm_content=158920213&utm_source=hs_email

They're probably Trump doctors.

 

[nostradumbass]

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Translation: “I want to pick and choose what facts I want to believe”

Um, yeah, everybody believes some things and not others. Do you just automatically believe whatever you're told?

 

[AndroidRage]

@Hadron90 do you ever get tired of looking like an idiot?

 

[ocfightfan]

Just wait until it's a pandemic of the "undervaccinated", whereby having anything less than two boosters locks you out of society.