CDC Director Overrules Expert Panel on Booster Policy - Follow The Science?

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Oct. 6, 2021

Ron Paul Liberty Report

CDC Director Throws Expert Committee Under The Bus

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has chosen to ignore the recommendation of her own panel of medical professional experts that booster shots were not necessary for the vast majority of the population. Walensky has sided with the vax manufacturers and endorsed boosters, promising even more astronomical profits for Big Pharma. Science... or politics?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE:

* While the FDA voted to approve a booster for high-risk individuals and those over 65, the CDC's expert advisory committee did not. They actually voted against recommending a booster for high-risk individuals based on their profession or living conditions. They thought only those over the age of 65 should be eligible for a booster at this time

* CDC director Rochelle Walensky overruled her own experts and September 24, 2021, recommended a booster dose for adults at high risk of infection due to profession or living conditions

* From bad to worse news, Pfizer is preparing to seek emergency use expansion to cover children aged 5 through 11. The FDA and CDC may review the data and vote on the issue as early as the end of October 2021

* In mid-September 2021, Italy became the first European country to announce it will implement mandatory COVID-19 health passes (so-called "Green Pass") for all workers, both public and private. The mandate takes effect October 15, 2021

According to CNN, the pace at which Americans are getting the COVID shot has dwindled considerably since mid-January, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began tracking daily shot statistics.

During the last week of September 2021, the seven-day average was 231,695 people receiving their first dose, down 31% from the week before and 47% lower than the last week of August 2021.

According to CNN, this slowdown is not due to a majority having already received their shots. Just over 55% of Americans are fully vaccinated with either one dose of Janssen or two doses of Moderna or Pfizer. Nearly 25% of eligible adults and adolescents remain unvaccinated, and 16 states have vaccination rates below 50%.

Once the shots are approved for children younger than 12, the number of eligible unvaccinated individuals will of course rise further, and that day is drawing near. Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla expects the company to submit data on children aged 5 through 11 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration any day now.

CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she expects the data on children to be delivered and reviewed within weeks. Once Pfizer delivers the data on children, two committees, one for the FDA and one for the CDC, will conduct their reviews and issue recommendations. Some analysts predict these reviews may occur as early as the end of October.

Moderna and J & J Boosters Are Coming Too

Walensky also stressed that boosters will also be authorized for Moderna and Janssen. As reported by CNN:

"Walensky said boosters for people who have gotten the Moderna and J&J vaccines will be addressed with similar urgency as Pfizer's vaccine. She reiterated that the current booster recommendations are only for people who received their second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine more than six months ago.

`We haven't forgotten you if you've gotten Moderna and J&J,' Walensky said, when asked how soon boosters for these groups might be seen, and if mixing and matching of vaccines could happen in the near future. `We will with similar urgency address boosters for those populations, as well as looking at the science and data for mix and matching.'"

CDC Director Overruled Expert Panel

The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted September 17, 2021, to authorize a third booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot Comirnaty for people over the age of 65 and other high-risk individuals.

Keep in mind that the shot you actually receive is still the Pfizer shot that is under extended emergency use authorization (EUA) — not the fully approved Comirnaty. While the two are deemed interchangeable, they are not identical from a legal standpoint. Comirnaty does not have EUA liability shielding, whereas the EUA Pfizer shot does.

While the VRBPAC voted to approve a booster for high-risk individuals and those over 65, the CDC's expert advisory committee did not. The CDC advisory committee actually voted against recommending a booster for high-risk individuals based on their profession or living conditions. They thought only those over the age of 65 should be eligible for a booster at this time.

Walensky, however decided not to listen to her own experts. September 24, 2021, she simply overruled the CDC's expert panel, and went ahead with the recommendation to issue a booster dose for adults at high risk of infection due to profession or living conditions. This is only the second time in the CDC's history that its own ACIP advisory panel has been overruled. But it's perfectly predictable in these tyrannical times.

In the Liberty Report at the top of this article, Ron Paul discusses this apparent rejection of science. As noted by independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, in a September 24, 2021, tweet (cited by Paul):

"Unbelievable: after 18 months of demanding everyone FOLLOW THE SCIENCE and scorning any questioning, Biden's CDC Director ignores — overrules — the overwhelming recommendation of her scientists about the Pfizer booster, to align with what Biden wanted."

Walensky told CBS News her decision to go against the CDC panel and side with the FDA and vaccine manufacturers was "a scientific close call," and that she "thought it was appropriate for those people to be eligible for boosters." As reported by CNN, individuals eligible for a Pfizer booster now include:

This isn't a definitive list. Walensky admitted people will need to determine for themselves whether they might qualify for a booster shot. For example, a healthy 20-year-old who waits tables in a restaurant may decide that his profession exposes him to high risk.

Pfizer Expects Annual Revaccinations

According to Pfizer CEO Bourla, normal life will not return without regular COVID shots from hereon. During an ABC, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" interview, Bourla said normalcy will likely return within the next year — but only for those who comply with the COVID jab recommendations. In essence, he doesn't foresee a future in which people won't be forced to send Pfizer profits into the stratosphere.

Bourla expects the COVID shot to become an annual revaccination, but based on what we're seeing in Israel, where they're already talking about a fourth dose, having just started giving the third in early August 2021, I would personally not be surprised if it turned into a quarterly injection. As noted by Summit News:

"The Pfizer's CEO's comments on annual vaccinations are interesting given that the FDA has so far only approved booster shots for elderly people and `high risk individuals.' Bourla's rhetoric is similar to that espoused by Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, who said last week that even younger people will have to get vaccine booster shots at least once every three years.

This once again underscores how a two-tier society is being created where only those who submit to regular shots will be able to enjoy a relatively normal lifestyle. For those who continue to refuse to be vaccinated, travel, employment and potentially even basic leisure activities will continue to be curtailed, leaving them in a de facto state of lockdown indefinitely."

Read more: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/10/06/covid-vaccine-booster.aspx

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