Anonymous ID: 61e6e9 Aug. 21, 2021, 12:23 a.m. No.14413697   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3700 >>3703 >>3745 >>3791

‘We sent a terrible message’: Scientists say Biden jumped the gun with booster plan

 

 

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-08-20/scientists-say-biden-jumped-gun-with-covid-vaccine-booster-plan

 

The Biden administration’s plan to make COVID-19 booster shots available next month has drawn a collective scream of protest from some members of the scientific community.

 

As they see it, the announcement is rash and based on weak evidence, and they worry it could undercut confidence in vaccines while offering no clear benefit of controlling the pandemic.

 

Plus, more information is needed on potential side effects or adverse effects from a booster shot, they say.

 

Perhaps even worse, the announcement has fueled deeper confusion about what Americans need to do to protect themselves against COVID-19.

 

“I think we’ve scared people,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an advisor to the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.

 

“We sent a terrible message,” he said. “We just sent a message out there that people who consider themselves fully vaccinated were not fully vaccinated. And that’s the wrong message, because you are protected against serious illness.”