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CDC Director: Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ May Change in the Future
epoch times ^ | 22 October A.D. 2021 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 10/22/2021 1:26:19 PM PDT by lightman

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday suggested that the definition of what constitutes being “fully vaccinated” may change as boosters become more commonplace, echoing a move handed down several weeks ago by Israeli officials.

For now, in order to meet the CDC’s criteria for being “fully vaccinated,” one has to have two shots of either the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, or one dose of Johnson & Johnson’s.

“We have not yet changed the definition of ‘fully vaccinated.’ We will continue to look at this. We may need to update our definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in the future,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters in response to a question about whether the fully vaccinated status will one day be imperiled for those who have received two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or one dose of the J&J vaccine.

“If you’re eligible for a booster, go ahead and get your booster and we will continue to follow,” she added. Walensky did not offer a timeline or other details about a possible change.

Walensky’s comments Friday represent a reversal of a previous position she took during a COVID-19 briefing. In late September, she said that federal health officials are not considering changing the definition of “fully vaccinated” for the time being.

It comes after the CDC recently expanded the eligibility for booster doses, approving them for individuals who have received Pfizer or Moderna shots if they are either aged 65 and older or aged 18 and older in long-term care settings. The agency also ruled that anyone who is 18 and older who got the J&J vaccine can get a booster shot two months later.

In recent weeks, health officials in countries like Australia have publicly toyed with the idea of continuous booster shots as a prerequisite for employment or having a valid vaccine passport.

“We’re going to be getting into booster issues, so it won’t be your first or second dose, it’ll be, ‘have you had, have you had, your third?'” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said during a recent news conference. “And then the other issue will be, well who knows what variants are coming?”

But Israel in early September became likely the first nation to say the country’s so-called “green passes,” or a type of vaccine passport, would expire six months after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Authorities in Bahrain followed suit, saying that those who are eligible for booster shots but don’t get them risk losing their vaccination status.

Both in Israel and Bahrain, vaccine passports are required to enter many venues such as restaurants, theaters, and bars. Several European countries including France and Italy have implemented similar measures nationwide.

Walensky on Friday also again called for people who haven’t got the COVID-19 vaccine to get vaccinated but stipulated that “no vaccine—even a boosted vaccine—provides 100 percent protection.”

Recent CDC data, meanwhile, shows that more Americans are getting booster shots than getting their first COVID-19 vaccination shot.

COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boosters; cdc; covid1984; covidboosters; covidvaccines; fullyvaccinated; movinggoalposts; walensky
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1 posted on 10/22/2021 1:26:19 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

so f... the science; the definition will be
whatever BIG-pharma Wants that month
to further itself and to bring
Liberty and Health to the gutter and grave.


2 posted on 10/22/2021 1:29:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: lightman

Goal posts on skateboards at the CDC.


3 posted on 10/22/2021 1:29:45 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: lightman

Wow! Who could have predicted that? I mean, aside from everyone....


4 posted on 10/22/2021 1:31:39 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: lightman

I hope the mutants, GMOs, and mudbloods are happy.
They’re gonna have to take boosters FOREVER, now.


5 posted on 10/22/2021 1:31:59 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: lightman

If we’re a little lucky, a couple of months from now we won’t need a “definition” because it won’t matter.


6 posted on 10/22/2021 1:32:41 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: lightman

So we now have a third category of American: the fully vaxxed, the partially vaxxed and the unvaxxed.


7 posted on 10/22/2021 1:34:39 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: lightman

the goalposts will NEVER EVER stop moving.

I’m not getting “vaccinated” again.

The virus beats the “vaccine” anyway. Most people going to the hospital got the jab.
People who got the jab can still spread it, if you read half the crap out there. If I get it and spread it, then why would anyone else who got vaccinated get it?
None of it makes sense!

I want to know what I have to keep getting put into my body perpetually by these guys?


8 posted on 10/22/2021 1:35:31 PM PDT by z3n (“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.” -Charlemagne)
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9 posted on 10/22/2021 1:36:31 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: lightman
Where are the vaxx shills on here?


10 posted on 10/22/2021 1:36:56 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: lightman

After Fauchi’s caught in months’ worth of lies, does moving the goal posts surprise anyone?


11 posted on 10/22/2021 1:37:09 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: lightman

Not so long ago, someone called BS on me when I said this was an issue.

3 months after your second shot, they will no longer consider the “fully vaccinated” “vaccinated”.

If you die from covid after that 3 month period as “fully vaxxed”, your death will be listed as “unvaccinated” without the booster.

This is how they have their “pandemic of the unvaccinated”.

They are liars.


12 posted on 10/22/2021 1:37:17 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: JonPreston

And the partially vaxxed will be lumped in with the unvaxxed for purposes of creating stats to make the vaccines desirable.


13 posted on 10/22/2021 1:37:48 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: lightman

You read it first on the FreeRepublic a year ago.


14 posted on 10/22/2021 1:45:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: lightman

Of course...


15 posted on 10/22/2021 1:51:04 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: lightman

If will be whatever the democrats and it’s CDC cohorts want to define as “fully vaccinated”.

Probably won’t accept the natural immunity, and won’t accept vaccinations if not “during the last 3 months” and must submit to questions about whether one supports Trump, and won’t accept ‘fully vaccinated’ unless one is a democrat.


16 posted on 10/22/2021 1:53:18 PM PDT by adorno
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To: lightman

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17 posted on 10/22/2021 1:57:28 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: lightman

“Fully Vaccinated” = “Fully Irrelevant”


18 posted on 10/22/2021 1:57:38 PM PDT by G Larry (I speak to be precise and refusing to change doesn't mean you can assign imprecise labels.)
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To: Diogenesis

To see what the CDC is going to do, just check Moderna and Pfizer sales and earnings. Maybe they are lagging a bit.


19 posted on 10/22/2021 1:59:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: z3n

You will eat your Soylent Green


20 posted on 10/22/2021 1:59:33 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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