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CDC’s Walensky Defends Overruling Vaccine Advisory Panel on Boosters
The Epoch Times ^ | September 24, 2021 | Zachary Stieber

Posted on 09/24/2021 7:20:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday defended unilaterally overruling a panel of experts on which populations should be allowed to receive COVID-19 vaccine booster shots.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, a Biden appointee who currently directs the CDC, accepted three recommendations on boosters from the agency’s advisory panel. But she rejected a recommendation not to allow boosters for 18- to 64-year-olds who are at a higher risk of being exposed to COVID-19 because of their job or living situation, even though some panel members said that could be interpreted to mean virtually anybody.

“I didn’t overrule an advisory committee,” Walensky told reporters during a virtual briefing about 12 hours after she overruled the panel.

Members voted unanimously to recommend boosters for everybody 65 and older and overwhelmingly for people 50 to 64 who have underlying medical conditions like obesity. The vote narrowed to 9-6 on a motion to advise the CDC to recommend shots for people between the ages of 18 and 49 who have similar medical conditions.

A lengthy discussion then ensued on the final motion, with a majority of members rejecting it. Some said there wasn’t nearly enough evidence to support allowing people with certain jobs and living situations to get a booster. Others said that healthcare workers and other so-called frontline workers who are exposed to more people on a daily basis and who live with high-risk individuals or people who cannot get a vaccine, like a child, should be allowed to get boosters.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; booster; cdc; fda; nih; vaccine
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

science, science, science.... or not... we will just pretend they said the science means what we want to do.


21 posted on 09/24/2021 9:47:18 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The covid junkies need their next fix of the spike and there is no stopping them until they have chased the dragon to their grave.
https://www.medicinenet.com/chasing_the_dragon/definition.htm


22 posted on 09/25/2021 3:08:39 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: RetiredTexasVet

bingo


23 posted on 09/25/2021 3:18:29 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: All

following the science is easy when you get to change who decides what science is.


24 posted on 09/25/2021 3:18:38 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Rurudyne

+100


25 posted on 09/25/2021 4:52:52 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Kaiser’s Latest recommendations on: Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots update: (Based on Actual CDC approval not their Chief’s B$!:

*On September 24, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that a Pfizer booster dose should be administered at least six months after completion of the Pfizer primary series for:

-People 65 or older
-Long term care facility residents
-People 50 through 64 with underlying medical conditions

The CDC advised that the Pfizer booster may be administered at least six months after completion of the primary Pfizer series for:

-People 18 through 49 with underlying medical conditions based on individual benefit and risk
-People 18 through 64 who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of occupational or institutional setting

-Note, at this time, boosters are only approved for individuals who received Pfizer vaccine. -Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine boosters have not yet been approved by the FDA.

-Visit the FDA or CDC websites for more booster shot news and updates.


26 posted on 09/25/2021 8:36:31 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( In your private, business, social and what ever life!: "All ways, ask Cui Bono?"!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why is she ruling on vaccines? I thought her expertise was rent moratoriums... (snark)


27 posted on 09/25/2021 8:43:21 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Brian Griffin

In the NECK.


28 posted on 09/25/2021 9:07:30 PM PDT by HKMk23 (LORD, HASTE THE DAY...!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“We’ve got to kill as many older people as possible so they can be replaced by foreigners Biden will fly in at taxpayer expense.” —CDC commie hack. These agencies all do the dirty work of Democrats who claim that all countries and cultures are the same. I saw an article which proves otherwise, “Muslim Passenger Screaming ‘Allah’ Tries to Storm Cockpit of JetBlue Flight Out of Boston”, and you can give that a look at PJmedia. Welcome to what the left calls our ‘new normal’. I didn’t vote for CDC, have n respect for them, and won’t obey them. 2A


29 posted on 09/25/2021 9:24:52 PM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Brian Griffin

They can certainly have mine. I’ll never take one.


30 posted on 09/25/2021 9:27:39 PM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Utopia (2013) from UK TV. Predictive programming. The 2020 Amazon remake isn’t as good but it’s basically the same story (just less of it).


31 posted on 09/25/2021 9:28:49 PM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

32 posted on 09/26/2021 2:32:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

While she can’t say it, Dr. Rochelle Walensky is telegraphing US medical intentions. The boosters are unsafe, but make sure and give them to 65+ year olds and fat people…


33 posted on 10/08/2021 8:01:36 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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