So let's see — Pfizer's COVID vaccine booster is not proven necessary and safe enough to give to 'regular' people — but it is necessary and safe enough to give to healthy medical workers — and immunocompromised and elderly folks?

18 September 2021

Where did y'all get your medical degrees?

As I have previously mentioned — (see here, for example) — both CDC and FDA reputations have been shredded by COVID.

A bigger bunch of blazingly incompetent, politically motivated, scientific standards-flouting leadership boobs you will not find in one place.

Proving that point (again), just yesterday, the FDA did this — my italics added for emphasis:

Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration declined Friday to recommend the agency approve Covid-19 booster doses for everyone who got vaccinated six months ago or longer.

They did recommend a more limited step: emergency use authorization for people 65 and older, and for people at high risk of severe infection.

Then they went back and added in health care workers and other people at high risk of getting infected at work -- even if they are not at especially high risk of severe disease.

"It is my opinion that we need . . . a booster dose now, particularly for the elderly and (those with) other high-risk conditions -- but I share my colleagues' angst about the sparsity of safety data," said Dr. Mark Sawyer, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California San Diego.

Dr. Michael Kurilla, an infectious disease specialist at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, said he suspected Pfizer went too far in extrapolating data on older people to a younger population.

"So it's unclear that everyone needs to be boosted, other than a subset of the population that clearly would be at high risk for serious disease," Kurilla said.

"It is not clear to me that the data we are seeing now is applicable to the general population."

Dr. Philip Krause, deputy director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review, noted that Pfizer was using data that had not been reviewed by experts.

"One of the issues in this is that much of the data that's been presented and being discussed today is not peer-reviewed and has not been reviewed by FDA," Krause said.

In other words

We don't know 'shit', but we'll probably do something medically contradictory anyway.

Just to make 'Mandate King' Biden happy.

You will also recall that the FDA abbreviated its usual vaccine approval process, so as to issue its emergency use authorization for all three of our US COVID vaccines.

And now the FDA is entertaining (money-grubbing) Pfizer's booster authorization request — without having gathered data over a long enough period to have any substantive idea as to what is going on with the initial vaccine's effectiveness — (and just possibly, long-term safety) — much less a booster's potential additional effects (or not) going forward.

If this not scientific and medical idiocy

I would be hard pressed to give you an example of what is.

This is the same oligarchically controlled Government that cannot even accept that post-COVID (infection and illness) natural immunity almost certainly exists. Despite the fact that such 'natural' responses to infection have endured for the entirety of the human species' duration.

The moral? — These are the intellectually asinine agencies that lead public health in the United States

Enjoy our Great American Decline.

Be happy performing your guinea pig and lab rat tasks.

We will be scrabbling around in dark caves soon.

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So let's see — Pfizer's COVID vaccine booster is not proven necessary and safe enough to give to 'regular' people — but it is necessary and safe enough to give to healthy medical workers — and immunocompromised and elderly folks?