cnn: whitehouse jerks
-
CNN panel blasts Biden admin's inability to communicate clearly on COVID: 'People feel jerked around'
Biden first announced booster shots would be widely available to the public on Sept. 20
A CNN panel blasted the Biden administration on Sunday for getting ahead of the science on booster shots, noting Americans are getting "frustrated" by the haphazardness at the White House.
President Biden proclaimed booster shots would be available to the public by September 20, yet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appeared to be caught off guard by that goal. They told the White House, regulators need more time to review necessary data before setting a date. The FDA is poised to approve boosters for those who got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but the wait is reportedly going to be longer for those who got the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna shots.
Two senior officials at the agency resigned in the wake of disagreement about the deadline. Dr. Marc Siegel described it as "a mess for the administration" in a recent "America’s Newsroom" interview.
"The delay may be minimal, but it is raising some concerns about the White House influence over scientific decisions," CNN's Kaitlan Collins said on Sunday's "Inside Politics."
Wall Street Journal national politics reporter Joshua Jamerson said the voters he's spoken with are "frustrated" by the White House's changing goal posts.
"There is no question people feel jerked around," is how TIME's national political correspondent Molly Ball described it.
Ball suggested while everyone "understands" the administration is dealing with new variants, their handling and messaging of the new challenges has not helped matters.
"But at the same time, there has been a clear inability to communicate clearly and consistently with the American people and particularly when so many people…were so excited to come out of this and that sort of jerked away," she said. "And again, not the administration's fault. Were people prepared and did people know what they were supposed to do next was there a clear national standard set?"
-
Yeah that 9/20 caught everyone by surprise.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
-
The U.S. will likely start to widely distribute Pfizer Covid-19 booster shots during the week of Sept. 20, but the rollout for Moderna’s vaccine could be delayed, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.
The Biden administration has announced plans to offer third doses to people who received the Pfizer and Moderna shots, pending approval from public health officials. The U.S. recommends an additional shot eight months after the second dose.
Only the Pfizer vaccine booster may get Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approval in time for a rollout the week of Sept. 20, Fauci said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” People who received Moderna shots may have to hold off for longer as the company waits for regulators to sign off on a third dose.
“Looks like Pfizer has their data in, likely would meet the deadline,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CBS. “We hope that Moderna would also be able to do it, so we could do it simultaneously.”
