Jeff Childers

Great news, everybody! And you said the health agencies weren’t good for anything. The Washington Post ran a story late Friday headlined, “Extensive Review Affirms Safety of Covid Booster After Signal of Possible Risk.”

Whew! We sure dodged a needle there.

Here’s the timeline. Friday afternoon, the CDC announced that it had diligently found a faint safety signal showing a potential link between ischemic strokes in 65+ and the Pfizer bivalent booster. By Friday evening, when reports of the original signal were still being drafted, the FDA promptly announced it had concluded an “extensive” albeit rapid review and — fortunately — found no link whatsoever. None.

Never mind!

So you can quit whining and relax into your next booster. Here’s how WaPo described the FDA’s “extensive” research project that only took about 90 minutes:

Government vaccine safety experts have combed through databases containing millions of records in the United States and consulted with regulators in other countries but so far have not found any indication that the statistical signal represents a clinical risk to patients… “We have looked at the totality of the evidence and there are no concerns at this time that this represents a true safety signal,” an FDA official said.
See? They ran a database query and phoned a friend. There you go. Feel better now? Look how fast they move to protect pharma, sorry, I mean us. And you didn’t trust the health agencies. Shame on you.