The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that Covid booster vaccines should be given not only to the over-65s and to those with underlying medical conditions but also to adults who work in ‘high-risk’ settings, such as teachers. The recommendation comes in spite of the red light given on additional doses for people in more ‘risky’ settings by the centre’s own Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices. Reuters has the story.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said her agency had to make recommendations based on complex, often imperfect data.
“In a pandemic, even with uncertainty, we must take actions that we anticipate will do the greatest good,” she said in a statement. …
The CDC recommendation follows U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorisation and clears the way for a booster roll-out to begin as soon as this week for millions of people who had their second dose of the Pfizer shot at least six months ago.
The CDC said that people 65 years and older should get a booster. Beyond older Americans, the CDC also recommended the shots for all adults over 50 with underlying conditions.
It said that, based on individual benefits and risks, 18 to 49 year-olds with underlying medical conditions may get a booster, and people 18-64 at increased risk of exposure and transmission due to occupational or institutional setting may get a shot. …
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices on Thursday gave the thumbs down to additional doses for groups including healthcare workers, teachers and residents of homeless shelters and prisons.
Panel member Lynn Bahta, who works with the Minnesota Department of Health, voted against that measure. She said the data does not support boosters in that group yet. “The science shows that we have a really effective vaccine,” she said.
The committee had said it could revisit the guidance later. …
Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit said he believed the CDC advisers were worried that recommending boosters based on employment would allow overly broad use, especially in younger people for whom the health benefits of a booster shot are still unclear.
“That was a hole that you could drive a truck through, that essentially what we were doing was basically what the (Biden) administration initially asked – to just have a vaccine for the general population, because obviously the pharmacists aren’t going to figure out whether you’re working in a grocery store or hospital,” he said.
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Johnson did it now Biden. I think they will regret it.
They should but won’t. Only plus side is both gentlemen will most likely get boosted. Bring on the next vax!
You are having a laugh. Politicians won’t go anywhere near these “vaccines.”
They are saline
They are saline
Across of debt ocean
Across the senility.
Ah yes but too much salt…
CDC is just another organisation of many that is controlled by those who own ‘big pharma’.
Why do they not aspirate when stabbing!? More needs to be said about this!
Lockdowns = Safety First Approach
Jabs = Leap in the Dark Approach
Lockdowns were anything but safe
Openly political now
Yeehaw…here we go down the slippery slope to forcing boosters on everyone. So much money to be made!!!
Schools are a high risk settings?
High risk of selfish behaviour by teachers.
High risk of abuse of children.
High risk of wild hysteria.
But high risk of covid illness? Not by any empirical measure.
And this is why institutions have lost all trust from the (thinking) public.
They are creating a parallel universe in which reality is some bizarre construct of theirs, backed up by their strange predictions and surreal interpretations of data and all of it insulated from criticism and facts by a protective shield of crony media and rampant censorship.
What percentage of schoolchildren aged 12 and up have been jabbed this week? Five days behind us now. How many have died this week? I haven’t heard of a single one.
Quite possible they’ve opted for saline for the youngest ones, for now…
I wonder which section of the workforce will be next to be deemed “high risk?”
Civil servants working from home?
It takes a special kind of stupid to voluntarily go for a ‘booster’.