Dealing the White House a stinging setback, a government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots across the board, and instead endorsed the extra dose only for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease.
The twin votes represented a heavy blow to the Biden administration’s sweeping effort, announced a month ago, to shore up nearly all Americans’ protection amid the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.
The decision was made by an influential committee of outside experts who advise the Food and Drug Administration.
In a surprising turn, the panel rejected, by a vote of 16-2, boosters for almost everyone. Members cited a lack of safety data on extra doses and also raised doubts about the value of mass boosters, rather than ones targeted to specific groups.
Then, in an 18-0 vote, it endorsed the extra shot for select portions of the U.S. population — namely, those most at risk from the virus.
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Interesting
FDA Panel Backs COVID-19 Boosters Only For Elderly, High Risk as an euthanasia.
Precisely why Gedolei Yisrael, like the Amshonover Rebbe shlit”a, says that high risk and elderly should not take it.
Du bist meshiga.