Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, in Hartford, Conn., on Feb. 17, 2023. (Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times)
Posted on 08/27/2023 9:29:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden's comments that all Americans will "likely" be advised to get a new COVID vaccine as new variants spread through the country are "irresponsible," according to Stanford University Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
“I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to the Congress, a request for additional funding for a new vaccine—that is necessary, that works," Mr. Biden told reporters in South Lake Tahoe, California, on Aug. 25.
"And tentatively, not decided finally yet, tentatively it is recommended—it is likely to be recommended—that everybody get it, no matter whether they got it before," he added.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, in Hartford, Conn., on Feb. 17, 2023. (Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times)
Since early July, COVID-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise domestically, with three new variants of the disease spreading across the country. The uptick has resulted in some businesses, schools, and hospitals reinstating mask mandates.
Multiple drug companies, including Pfizer, Novavax, and Moderna, have introduced new vaccines they say will be effective against the EG.5, or ERIS, variant of COVID-19.
"It never occurred to me that an American president would be the number one spokesperson for a pharmaceutical company, but here we are," Dr. Bhattacharya told The Epoch Times.
"It's irresponsible to make this kind of public health advice for the entire American public in the absence of excellent randomized trial evidence, which has not been produced by the pharmaceutical companies," he added.
"The FDA [Food and Drug Administration] never asked for them to produce them," Dr. Bhattacharya said, referring to vaccines targeting the new COVID variants.
The Standard professor said that authorities are incorrectly treating COVID booster shots " just like the flu vaccine, that you just update it from year to year."
But, in contrast with the COVID-19 injections, for flu vaccines "there's a long track record where the safety record of the vaccine is understood," Dr. Bhattacharya said.
"Not requiring randomized trial evidence for updating the vaccine is irresponsible. It's using a different mechanism than the flu vaccine. You can't extend the experience you have with the flu vaccine to this vaccine," he said.
The professor also picked up on President Biden's comment that everyone will likely be advised to take the new vaccine "no matter whether they got it before."
"Here where they're saying is, essentially like it's amnesty—We're all going to be treated as if we're unvaccinated with regard to this vaccine," Dr. Bhattacharya said.
According to CNBC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials told reporters Thursday that the vaccines are expected to become available to the public in mid-September, though they are still pending approval from the FDA.
An independent CDC advisory committee is scheduled to meet on Sept. 12 to vote on recommended guidelines for eligibility for the new COVID-19 jabs.
During the press briefing, CDC and FDA officials advised that both agencies intended to urge Americans to get an updated COVID-19 shot, as well as the flu shot and the recently approved RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline.
“Vaccination is going to continue to be key this year because immunity wanes and because the COVID-19 virus continues to change,” a CDC official said.
Dr. Paul Marik of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care was scathing in his response to the president's announcement.
"It's insanity," he told The Epoch Times.
"I think the vaccines have failed, and this is untested," he added.
"Making a new vaccine against a new variant which is untested makes no sense," Dr. Marik continued, saying that he "can't see any group of patients who would benefit from a vaccine."
"We need to know more information," he added.
Samantha Flom contributed to this report.
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Hey Dr. Bhattashitcrazy, we aren’t playing anymore.
My wife and I are retired, we’ve travelled to 31 countries, family is close by, thus, no need to fly. So we refuse to be subjects of the jab and will go to jail before we let anyone near us with the Fauci poison.
A #ing Rat #ing lying — imagine that.
I’d go further and say its DEADLY.
So you are gung-ho for the new vaccine? Go ahead. We will watch you be the experimental subject. Dr. Bhattashitcrazy, as you call him, has always opposed the vaccines.
The “Big Guy” will get his usual 10% kickback from the peddlers of the vaccines.....
Why don’t we just start at the beginning. And take the mask outside and burn it. Burn it baby just burn it.
Yes. He has.
I think we need a National Mask Burning Day.
I didn’t get the jab when Trump was pushing it. I certainly won’t get the jab with Biden pushing it.
So, you're ready to be de-banked? I'm unvaxed too, and have no intention of becoming vaxed, but I'm not sure how to overcome everything that these evil people can/will throw at us.
I still support all Liberals/Demonrats, BLM activists, CRT proponents, and LGBTQ participants to get the clot shots and all available boosters.......ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biden wants a COVID crisis so the Dems can push ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots.
That would be a great start, and it would be an F you right to their faces. Take those mask outside and burn them. I like the idea let’s keep using that theme over and over again. Burn every freaking mask you have in the house!
I recommend new vaccines be laced with fentanyl and be made mandatory for those developing it, mandating it and of course all covid cultist and leftist.
We need to make it a real thing. In defiance of the past and impending oppression.
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