Posted on 03/31/2025 2:54:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Dr. Marty Makary has been confirmed as the new head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Makary, a Johns Hopkins University surgeon and researcher, was confirmed by the Senate with a 56-44 vote.
During his Senate hearing, Makary said "common sense" should be used in health care alongside science.
- While he is generally supportive of vaccines, in the past Makary has opposed blanket vaccine mandates for people other than health care workers.
-He has previously made headlines for his comments during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included looking at natural immunity and questioning the requirement for booster shots in younger people.
In 2022, Makary coauthored a paper that concluded that requiring booster shots in young people could cause more harm than good. "Booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm," the paper says.
Likewise, in a statement to the House COVID committee in May 2023, he wrote: "Nothing speaks more to the intellectual dishonesty of public health leaders than their complete dismissal of natural immunity. They never talked about it."
After citing "200 studies [that] have shown that natural immunity is at least as effective than vaccinated immunity," he criticized how the vaccine was rolled out, especially when supply was scarce before April 2021, and asked, "why were life-saving vaccines being used for second doses in those who already had natural immunity when they could have been used as a first dose to save the life of someone with no immunity?"
But he did also say: "I do not recommend actively or passively getting the infection over vaccination because getting the infection can result in a regrettable severe illness."
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Makary was also ahead of the game when it came to:
- Recognizing the benefits of spacing out the two dose Covid shots by more than three weeks.
- The immune sufficiency of one dose for young, low risk, or already naturally immune people. (Basically one of the few who DARE to bring up the concept of over-vaccination and its potential physical harms on otherwise healthy people.)
- There's ALWAYS humility behind his recommendations. Always fluidity - making room for whatever new evidence arises.
I also appreciate his case-by-case approach and emphasis on individualism among patient care, as opposed to Marxist “one size fits all or else” herd mentality driving current public health directives.
i listened to his advice religiously during Covid. he took a lot of grief for raising issues and questions so i am very glad he is being recognized.
Someone with common sense??? 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Limited hangout. Natural immunity presupposes a novel, deadly, spreading virus.
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