FIVE FREEDOMS:[OPINION]-On Boosters, It’s the White House vs FDA vs CDC vs Fauci vs ‘The Science’
In a virtually unprecedented move, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky announced at 1:00 a.m. last Friday that she was very broadly approving booster shots for people under 65 whose occupations may put them at heightened risk from the coronavirus.
While the announcement aligned with a September 17 recommendation by experts at the FDA‘s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), it directly contradicted a key CDC advisory panel, which had advised against approving boosters for people under 65. The panel in turn contradicted President Joe Biden. On August 18, he declared to all Americans, “Get a booster shot…. It will make you safer, and for longer. And it will help us end the pandemic faster.”
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