OPINION: I don't recommend FDA's infinity vaccine booster strategy
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary weighs in on America's COVID policy decisions and the effectiveness of mask mandates on 'Sunday Night In America.'The FDA is about to authorize a second round of bivalent COVID booster shots for older Americans who got their previous bivalent booster just 4 months ago. This after the Biden administration purchased 171 million doses of the vaccine, of which approximately 116 million doses are unused.
"Those doses are going to be expiring and will be thrown out. So it makes sense to have those shots in arms instead of being tossed in the waste basket," Dr. Peter Hotez, of Baylor College of Medicine, told NPR.high-profile public health expertsDr.
If public health officials get their way, a healthy 5-year-old boy will get 72 COVID vaccine shots over the course of his lifetime, if he has an average lifespan, with a risk of myocarditis after each one.New research by Joseph Fraiman and his team found that as many as 1 in 662 people developed a"serious adverse event" after the COVID vaccine.
I’m in agreement with Dr. Paul Offit who recently addressed boosters in young people in the New England Journal of Medicine writing,"I believe we should stop trying to prevent all symptomatic infections in healthy, young people by boosting them with vaccines containing mRNA from strains that might disappear a few months later." While Dr.
A growing group of physicians in the U.S. are concerned about the lack of data transparency with COVID vaccine complications and newly revealed censorship by big tech of any"vaccine hesitancy content." But when vaccine complications are downplayed, it makes the vaccine seem safer than it really is, and when COVID deaths are overcounted, it makes the virus look more dangerous than it really is.
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