Posted on 09/04/2021 5:03:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The Biden administration’s decisions over when to administer coronavirus vaccine boosters are triggering turmoil within the Food and Drug Administration, frustrating regulators and sparking fear that political pressures will once again override the agency’s expertise.
FDA officials are scrambling to collect and analyze data that clearly demonstrate the boosters' benefits before the administration’s Sept. 20 deadline for rolling them out to most adults. Many outside experts, and some within the agency, see uncomfortable similarities between the Biden team's top-down booster plan and former President Donald Trump's attempts to goad FDA into accelerating its initial authorization process for Covid-19 vaccines and push through unproven virus treatments.
On Tuesday, two top FDA vaccine regulators resigned — a decision that one former official said was rooted in anger over the agency’s lack of autonomy in the booster planning so far. A current health official said the pair, Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, left over differences with FDA’s top vaccine official Peter Marks. Now the agency is facing a potential mutiny among its staff and outside vaccine advisers, several of whom feel cut out of key decisions and who view the plan to offer boosters to all adults as premature and unnecessary.
POLITICO spoke to 11 current and former health officials and people familiar with the matter who described growing exasperation with the administration's disjointed process for implementing its booster plan. Those sources said there is little coordination between federal health agencies, even as two top FDA officials try to guide the rollout....
“Many, many, many” providers in southern states with coronavirus case surges are dosing health care workers and patients with boosters absent an FDA approval because of confusion over Biden booster remarks, said Helen Talbot, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University and member of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.....
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Nothing like Biden stupidly exposing the whole charade for all to see.
Is it time to listen to Sleepy46? Let me check my watch...
Experts. Science.
The FDA wanted a part of the bribe?
There is no 3rd-stage "booster" until September 20. So the only thing these morons could be doing is re-administering the 2nd Pfizer, despite evidence that shows Delta is evading both of the mRNA experimental therapies.
IMO in several years there are going to be studies that show concomitant mRNA administration and then catching COVID or having just acquired COVID asymptomatically and then getting the jab, yielded surprise deaths in the non-high-risk (70+) population, above the mean.
And these are the same people that lost their shit over Trump.
“So the only thing these morons could be doing is re-administering the 2nd Pfizer, despite evidence that shows Delta is evading both of the mRNA experimental therapies.”
It is very possible that this is what is going on.
There are a lot more stupid people in this country than I realized my whole life before 2020.
That’s the only thing I was (and still am) dismayed with Trump. That he went all in with this “Vaccine is the only way” solution to Covid. He should have also made sure to get institutional approval for other protocols, but he let Fauci run the entire show.
Sounds a lot like how joe handled Afghanistan.
“They” are not stupid (don’t be so kind). They are amoral and evil. They know full well what they know and what they are promoting.
Docs should decide.
the FDA was supposed to be for safe labeling
until it sold out to pFizer and Gates
to decrease the population.
No wonder Rod Sterling fled screaming 3 years ago
returning to the “normal” Twilight Zone
from the slow boiling waters beneath this Republic.
Not a good look when your scientists refuse to trust your science.
Joe’s handlers are gonna have to find a way to science the trust.
I don’t dispute that there are evil people being the vaccines, including the boosters.
However, I do think some of their followers are stupid and not evil per se. I would include as followers, medical directors at hospitals who uncritically go along with government directives.
Self-deluded perhaps is a better descriptor than stupid.
Are the self-deluded evil? Perhaps an argument can be made.
A nation of Fredos
I'm tellin ya, Cat, truer words were never spoken. The worst part has been these micro-populations like gender-delusional people reaching tipping points where the Democrats have identified them as easy marks, along with the Democrats rattling chains via CRT and BLM to scare honest, hard-working African-American folks simply because - and for no other reason - Trump made electoral inroads into this community.
“Many, many, many” providers in southern states with coronavirus case surges are dosing health care workers and patients with boosters absent an FDA approval because of confusion over Biden booster remarks, said Helen Talbot, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University and member of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.”
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LOL. As if the FDA is some sacred, objective agency that protects us. They approved Vioxx after $millions in lobbying despite many obvious red flags and it killed 60,000 people. Now the same criminals are doing everything they can to block people who want Ivermectin to save lives. Bastards.
>> political pressures will once again override the agency’s expertise
Biden’s acumen vs FDA’s expertise — a battle of the ages
You must have watched a different movie than I did. Trump was trying to save people from a ventilator death. He had the Rats and the fake news after him 24/7. He had to build a fire under the CDC ass to get them moving or we would still be waiting. Do you not remember the crap he took over Ivermectin and HCQ. I think he did a great job.
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