Loading ...FDA, CDC Urge All Adults to Get 5th COVID Shot Despite No Safety or Efficacy Data
The emergency authorizations of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 boosters are based on preliminary test results from only eight mice, and that data hasn’t even been made public.
Story at a glance:
- The emergency authorizations of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 boosters are based on preliminary test results from a grand total of eight mice, and that data hasn’t even been made public.
- Based on the antibody response in eight mice, the Biden administration has ordered 171 million doses of the two boosters.
- A reanalysis of data from the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trials found that combined, the jabs were associated with a risk increase of serious adverse events of special interest at a rate of 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated. Meanwhile, the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization was only 2.3 per 10,000 participants for Pfizer and 6.4 per 10,000 for Moderna.
- According to a recent risk-benefit analysis of a third booster for university students, for each COVID-19 hospitalization prevented, the booster will cause 18 to 98 serious adverse events.
- A number of top officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health reportedly have serious concerns about the direction we’re going in, yet are too afraid to speak out or push back.
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CDC Will Stop Issuing Daily Updates of COVID Cases, Deaths
Anyone who still wants to keep track of U.S. COVID cases and deaths will soon have to wait for the weekly reports. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will stop publishing COVID case and death data on a daily basis and instead issue weekly updates, starting Oct. 20.
The move is in line with efforts to wind down other COVID-related tools on the CDC website. It eases reporting requirements for state and local health departments who can report the information weekly on Wednesdays, the agency said.
The agency is continuing its daily hospitalization reports, which the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services collects. The CDC will take charge of that data in December, and it’s not clear if it will still be published daily, CBS News reported.