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Dealing the White House a blow, an outside panel told the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday that it only recommended a third COVID-19 booster shot for those over the age of 65, but not for the general population.
“I don’t think a booster dose is going to significantly contribute to controlling the pandemic,” Dr. Cody Meissner of Tufts University said, according to The Associated Press. “And I think it’s important that the main message we transmit is that we’ve got to get everyone two doses.”
The vote among those on the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee rejected the third booster shot for the general population in a 16-2 vote. The paper pointed out that the main concern for the panel was that there is not enough information about the effects a third shot would have on the recipient and it is unclear how safe and effective it would be to stop transmission.
“The marginal benefit of a third dose of vaccine for people who are already vaccinated is likely to be very small for reducing the overall burden,” Eric Rubin, a Harvard microbiologist and editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, said, according to the paper.
Making it Up!
It seems that every week there is a new study that praises one vaccine when compared to others.
The Pfizer jab—which the drug dealers and politicians promoted as having a 96 percent efficacy rate—was widely seen as the Cadillac of COVID shots. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention led a nationwide study released last week that showed the Moderna vaccine is slightly better at preventing infection.
Despite the Israeli health ministry reporting that the Pfizer jab was only 39 percent effective the CDC’s weekly report on death and disease concluded that, “Among U.S. adults without immunocompromising conditions, vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalization during March 11- August 15, 2021, was higher for the Moderna vaccine (93%) than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (88%) and the [Johnson & Johnson] Janssen vaccine (71%).”
CNN pointed out that the CDC’s team suggested that the difference between the Pfizer and Moderna jab is that Moderna’s jab has a higher mRNA content. The CDC insists that all three jabs are effective.
Danger Ahead
The outside panel for the FDA said more data needs to be collected about the potential of myocarditis—the inflammatory heart condition—that has been recorded among young men and if a third shot could increase the risk.
Earlier this month, two top officials at the FDA announced that they will hand in their resignations because they were opposed to the Biden administration’s decision to roll out the COVID-19 booster shots before the agency could approve it, according to Business Insider.
Dr. Marion Gruber, the director of the agency’s vaccines office, will retire and Dr. Philip Krause, her deputy, will leave in November, according to The New York Times, citing an internal email sent by Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine regulator. The report said that neither thought there was sufficient data on the boosters.
William Gruber, a senior vice president of Pfizer’s vaccine clinical research, said another dose was needed about six months after receiving the second jab and pointed to the waning protection.
Much has been blamed on the Delta variant for these dips of effectiveness, but the company admitted that the issue is tied more to the drug itself and not the potency of any variant.
TRENDPOST: The motto of the Trends Journal is “Think for Yourself.” Adults should educate themselves, and make the decision on their own, without fear of retribution, social stigmas, and corporate/mainstream bullying. But we can’t help but notice the dollar signs that companies like Pfizer and Moderna can only dream about if universal vaccine boosters become mandatory every six months.
Go back to last December when so-called health experts, politicians, and the media began selling the COVID jab.
The line was that after two jabs, you’d live happily ever after, COVID-free for the rest of your life. But as we wrote in the 20 April Trends Journal, that line began to fade when the Pfizer Drug Lord said booster shots would be needed. (See “PFIZER CEO: THIRD TIME IS A CHARM.”) (ALSO SEE: “GOVERNMENTS HAWKING COVID BOOSTER SHOTS,” “COVID BOOSTERS ARE THE FUTURE?” “NO LETUP IN SURGE OF VAX BIZ REVENUES” .)