Posted on 10/06/21
| News Source: Newsmax
A group of prominent doctors and scientists has advised the Biden administration to ditch plans to provide booster shots to all previously vaccinated adults, Politico reported.
Several “outside experts,” saying current data on vaccine performance did not justify using boosters, objected to the administration’s plan during a private, off-the-record call last week with federal health officials, Politico reported Wednesday.
The group told officials, who included President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, that boosters should be given to people most at risk of severe COVID-19 to reduce hospitalizations and deaths.
The Sept. 27 call was described as “tense” as Fauci argued that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee’s stance — that science did not support giving boosters to all adults — was incorrect. He also dismissed suggestions that the administration needed to choose between a broad U.S. booster campaign and donating vaccines to countries in need, Politico said.
Fauci also told the doctors and scientists that boosters could, and should, be given widely to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.