Cancel the boosters!
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/06/biden-covid-experts-boosters-515175
A vocal contingent of prominent doctors and scientists is pressing the Biden administration to scrap its plans to provide booster shots to all previously vaccinated adults, according to five people familiar with the matter.
Several of these outside experts, including some who advised President Joe Biden’s transition team, objected to the administration’s approach during a private, off-the-record call last week with federal health officials. Current U.S. data on vaccine performance does not justify using boosters widely to reduce the risk of breakthrough infections and slow the virus’ spread, the experts said.
The growing split between Biden’s team and outside health experts on boosters threatens to disrupt a key source of support the administration has relied on to sell its vaccination drive to the American public. Biden, who took office pledging to “follow the science,” until recently enjoyed the enthusiastic backing of eminent physicians and researchers as he attempted to crush Covid-19 and revive the U.S. economy. But the White House’s sweeping vision for boosters has weakened those ties.
Now, even some experts who support the president’s broad booster strategy say the White House has fumbled its messaging on the topic, confusing the public as Biden’s team tries to limit new surges of infection through the winter.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@mik said in Cancel the boosters!:
In short, the government is throwing things against the wall to see what sticks. They have no real idea how to stop this thing.
This is a bad, bad message.
Alternatively, 5 (or 3, depending on which bit you read) people with an axe to grind may have made up shit and talked to Politico anonymously.
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@doctor-phibes said in Cancel the boosters!:
@mik said in Cancel the boosters!:
In short, the government is throwing things against the wall to see what sticks. They have no real idea how to stop this thing.
This is a bad, bad message.
Alternatively, 5 (or 3, depending on which bit you read) people with an axe to grind may have made up shit and talked to Politico anonymously.
That's possible. But Politico is hardly a right wing rag.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Cancel the boosters!:
@89th said in Cancel the boosters!:
Barely felt the upgraded microchip go in!
Up to 6G are we?
They say it's Huawei technology no less.
‘a-blowe yow and be-kele yow wel, and comyth up all with your ease’ ~ attributed to Henry V
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@renauda said in Cancel the boosters!:
@george-k said in Cancel the boosters!:
@89th said in Cancel the boosters!:
Barely felt the upgraded microchip go in!
Up to 6G are we?
They say it's Huawei technology no less.
I'm hoping for something designed by Wang Global.
