Posted on 09/24/2021 7:38:48 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The CDC director's decision to overrule the agency panel's recommendation is an unusual step and has surprised many in the field.
D. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, late Thursday overruled an agency panel recommendation that refused to endorse booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine for frontline workers.
Walensky's move is an unusual one, though it aligns her agency with the recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration over that of her own advisers. On Thursday, the CDC'S Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that booster shots be given to older Americans, and younger individuals who are at higher risk for severe cases of COVID-19.
The recommendation, however, did not include health care workers, teachers, and others whose jobs place them at heightened risk. Walensky's trumping of that recommendation aligns her agency's policy with the Biden administration's broader goal of offering booster shots to as many Americans as is feasible.
Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford and a liaison to the CDC panel from the American Academy of Pediatrics told the New York Times, "I am surprised that Dr. Walensky overturned one of the four ACIP votes today, and I believe others will be as well."
The panel's initial guidance came after weeks of internal dispute and debate about when and how to rollout a booster shot. The Biden administration has been touting boosters since mid-August and announced plans weeks ago to roll out the shots this week. Regulators and agency scientists, however, pumped the brakes on the White House plan by pointing out how little research had been done on boosters.
At present, only Americans who have received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will qualify for booster shots. The panel did not evaluate the eligibility of those who have received either the Moderna double shot or the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Then Lester Holt will come out on NBC at 5:30 AGAIN tonight to tell us that all of the confusion about Covid booster shots has been cleared up, and the new rule is..... blah blah blah.
How much money is she getting from Pfizer?
“Centers for Disease Control and P.r.e.v.e.n.t.i.o.n?”
If CDC was interested in PREVENTION they would not be pushing a shot...they’d be pushing Ivermectin, etc...
if the Rochelle Walensky TRANS-human INDUCTION
fails to stop the virus du jour,
the subsequent
it will be blamed on those smart enough
to avoid it, who chose to remain PURE-BLOOD.
Aren't you thinking of Rachel Levine?
My first question - how much is this mook taking on kickbacks?
pretty much the inevitably expected response from the NOT-SCIENCE fascist dementia joe regime ...
i wonder if they’ll still try to wave their Magic “Science” Wand over this decision?
“At present, only Americans who have received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will qualify for booster shots. The panel did not evaluate the eligibility of those who have received either the Moderna double shot or the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.”
Pfizer is running away from the pack and winning the billion test! Wonder how much payoff money it cost them.
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