By Dr. Li-Meng Yan | Sep 10, 2021 | Feature 3, Healthcare, Politics
As the Delta variant rages, the Biden Administration wants Americans to get a booster shot beginning September 20th. However, there is lingering doubt as CDC advisors called for more data to support the boosters. Compounding the uncertainty, two top FDA vaccine officials—Dr. Marion Gruber, Director, and Dr. Phil Krause, Deputy Director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review—suddenly resigned.
“These sudden resignations and calls for more data are very troubling,” says Dr. Li-Meng Yan. “It’s very risky to issue a booster without the proper scientific understanding of the virus and its variants.”
The FDA and CDC still need to meet next week to approve the third dose, and even then there is confusion on who gets the shot. FDA’s scientific advisers will publicly debate Pfizer’s evidence on Sept. 17, just three days before the administration’s target. If the FDA approves another dose, then advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will recommend who should get one, according to The Associated Press.
Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration, and Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, who heads the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, warned the White House on Thursday that
their agencies may be able to determine in the coming weeks whether to
recommend boosters only for recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine —
and possibly just some of them to start. Federal regulators warned on
Thursday they may not have enough data to recommend boosters for anyone
except certain recipients of the Pfizer vaccine by late September, reports the New York Times...........To Read More....
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