The vote wasn’t close among the group which puts them is conflict with the Biden admin…..
A scientific advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday overwhelmingly recommended against approving a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older.
The committee voted 16 to 3 after holding an intensej daylong public discussion on whether booster shots are necessary and if so, for whom. The Biden administration has been hoping the F.D.A. would approve a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine in time to begin rolling out boosters for Pfizer recipients next week.
The vote came after a sharp debate in which many of the panel’s independent experts, including infectious disease doctors and statisticians, challenged whether the data justified a broad rollout of extra shots when the vaccines appear to still offer robust protection against severe Covid-19 disease and hospitalization, at least in the United States.
“It’s unclear that everyone needs to be boosted, other than a subset of the population that clearly would be at high risk for serious disease,” said Dr. Michael G. Kurilla, a committee member and official at the National Institutes of Health.
It was not immediately clear whether a second vote, on whether booster shots should be approved for older people, who are more vulnerable to severe Covid-19, would follow the first.
The recommendation was the latest in a series of setbacks for President Biden’s booster plan since he first announced it a month ago. Mr. Biden said at the time that he wanted most adults who had gotten a second Pfizer or Moderna vaccine at least eight months ago to start receiving booster shots the week of Sept. 20….
UPDATE…..
In a second later vote the panel adjusted its view to support boosters for high risk and those over 65…..
The panel voted against a booster for everyone;however, it did endorse boosters for those over age 65 and others who are immunomcompromised .
I updated the post Jack…..
Thanks
Anyone who does not think the CDChas to play politics is naive……
BTW?
Some people ARE getting a 3rd shot on theirown regardless
Inquiring people want to know…
What are the “politics” being played here?
And none of your rambling hyperbole please.You know actual facts,the people involved, who is doing what,the political angles,you know?Things that a”keen political observer” like yourself can sniff out!
The Biden WH got ahead of the FDA on booster shots…
Read the linked piece….
They putting out the boosters for older folks, in about 2 months they will authorize it for younger people…But the most important thing they did, recommend it for the older population and then get the younger population at a later date…
Right NOW Though?
They REALLY ARE on the fence…..
Politics vs Health?
Sarah Palin says she’s not vaccinated because she’s “one of those white, common sense conservatives”
Gotta get in your appeal to racists AND science deniers.
She was and is a ‘nut’ case
FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot for elderly, people at high risk of severe Covid-19
The move aligns with the recommendation the agency’s independent vaccine advisers made Friday…..
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This is NOT a CDC ok…….
CDC Booster ok….
NOT for everybody ….
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel on Thursday recommended booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for people at least 65 years old, paving the way for boosters in a large swatch of the American population.
The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 15-0 to recommend a booster dose for Americans age 65 and older and people in long term care facilities….
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We have a political issue brewing on booster shots….
Anxious about a surge of coronavirus infections enveloping Europe as cases tick up in the United States, senior health officials in the Biden administration are pressing urgently to offer vaccine booster shots to all adults. But support for the renewed push is not unanimous.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has expressed caution about making extra shots so broadly available now, according to several officials familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. As a result, tension is rising among officials over how quickly to proceed and who should get the shots.
The debate comes at a critical time for the Biden administration, with top advisers growing increasingly fearful the country could slide backward into a fifth pandemic wave amid colder weather and declining vaccine protection. Eager for the president to push his economic agenda, many aides see expanding booster access as a way to backstop progress against the highly transmissible delta variant….
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Meanwhile, some officials at the CDC, which takes the lead in recommending how vaccines should be used, have suggested that other officials appear to be pressuring the agency to make a decision it views as premature.
Supporters of broad eligibility argue that authorizing boosters for all adults would simply be an explicit recognition of what is already occurring: Many people are getting access to the shots by saying they are in an eligible group since pharmacies are using the honor system…
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