Posted on 11/03/2021 8:46:38 PM PDT by lightman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not examining changing the definition of “fully vaccinated,” its director said Wednesday.
“The definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ is one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and two doses of the either Pfizer vaccine or the Moderna vaccine,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the agency, or the CDC, told reporters during a virtual briefing.
“And we’re not examining changing that definition anytime, at this point,” she added.
Walensky was questioned about the definition because federal health officials recently decided to let tens of millions of Americans get booster COVID-19 vaccine shots, including everybody who has gotten a Johnson & Johnson jab.
Additionally, a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for many private businesses is set to be published soon. It and many mandates across the country include the “fully vaccinated” term.
The federal requirements will follow the CDC’s guidance, Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID-19 response team’s coordinator, told reporters.
The rule developed by the Department of Labor will apply to every business that has 100 or more employees.
Walensky sounded a different tune last month when she said that the definition of “fully vaccinated” had not been changed but “we will continue to look at this.”
“We may need to update our definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in the future,” she added.
Those comments were a shift from earlier remarks Walensky delivered in September. She said at the time that federal health officials were not considering changing the definition of ‘fully vaccinated.'”
Israel recently adjusted its definition to include three doses of the messenger RNA-based vaccines and other countries like Australia have mulled making a similar change.
During Wednesday’s briefing, Walensky was also questioned on whether there will be discussion on recommending a single mRNA-based vaccine dose for young children who have natural immunity, or immunity from prior infection, against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Pfizer’s vaccine was granted emergency use authorization for 5- to 11-year-olds by drug regulators last week and recommended to the entire age group by the CDC on Tuesday.
Some experts have called for the CDC to adjust its recommendations for people with natural immunity, especially children.
Walensky said data from Pfizer’s trial indicates that the vaccine is safe and effective in young children, adding “we absolutely recommend two doses of vaccines for these children.”
“We do know that after nearly all infectious diseases you have some protection from getting that infection again, but we don’t really know how long that lasts or how robust it is,” she added.
The Democraps have suddenly awakened that they can no longer run as the Cult of COVID.
Fully vacillated?
The end if Covid????
It won’t last.
I have a placeholder in my project for this change...
How many times now has the CDC said that about something regarding the WuFlu and then changed it?
Stuff a sock in it, Walensky. Or a Joetato.
Whatta ‘bout next year?
MLK Ski Day?
So they know the vax wears off after 6 months, but they are still calling it fully vaxed after that point? That makes no sense at all. Add to that, the vax really doesn’t work. It’s like the only goal is to get the vax in your arm.
Ramp up the Therapeutics/Prophylactics.
Trump and Navarro to lead.
we may need to alter the definition of reality some time in the future, says the cdc
we have found the best strategy for us, so far, is to keep moving the goalposts and changing what the definition of words are
WINNAH!!!!!!!!
Their science on small children will flip flop when some start dying from strokes and heart attacks and “ pneumonia”
Later it could become an epidemic of autoimmune disorders and cancers.
Oh, they’ll change it all right.
“The end if Covid????”
After the political bitch-slap they observed in Tuesday’s election, they are likely becoming concerned about the waning legitimacy of the CDC over the American people.
We see them for the political hacks they have become.
Many in the CDC, FDA and NIH belong in federal prison for the rest of their lives for crimes against humanity.
It is not as if anything the CDC means anything anyway except “shut up.”
Policy…until they change it…
“And we’re not examining changing that definition anytime, at this point,” she added.
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Sure.... like there is a single word that comes out of their mouths that can be believed. Here is what happened in Canada OVER THE COURSE OF JUST 3 DAYS....
https://tnc.news/2021/11/03/canadas-goal-posts-are-moving-once-again-when-it-comes-to-covid-19/
“The government is changing what it means to be “fully-vaccinated.” Two shots may not be enough as Canada’s top public health “expert” Dr. Theresa Tam says the general population will need another vaccine shot. Tam’s latest ruling comes just three days after she said boosters would not be required for Canadians.”
Fooly Vaccinated.
Popeye the Covid Mom speaks.
We do not listen.
God Forbid that any little innocents should die because of the wrong-minded policies of the evil CDC.
Parents, RESIST!
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