There are plenty of jokes we could tell related to the not-so-new bivalent booster that continues to be advertised. How the Biden Administration spent five billion dollars so you could get it for free. Over 48 million Americans took them all up on the offer, and it seems the joke is on them.
Related: FDA: Those Bivalent Boosters May Not Work, So Let’s Stick Them in Infants …
This new and improved mRNA injection got rubber-stamped by the approval committee based on immunological data from mice. You may have heard. It resulted in a significant increase in available antibodies. The FDA Committee was so impressed that they approved it and then backed it again for infants.
It’s been injected into over 48 million people, and now the FDA Advisory Committee is upset. All the mice got COVID.
Turns out that all 10 of the bivalent-boosted mice got sick and had significant viral counts, not only in the noses but also in the lungs.
The only claim to fame here is that the Ba.5 boosted mice got fewer viral particles IN THE LUNGS.
However, all mice, boosted or not boosted, had plenty of viral particles IN THE NOSES. So all these boosted mice were great potential spreaders of the covid infection.
The FDA Committee seems to have decided that reducing lung particles in sick mice was a winner. And sue, depending on what you think winning is, that’s probably true. Igor Chudov reports that Bivalent boosted human test subjects are 68% more likely to catch COVID than those boosted but not with the Bivalent.
The reports on the mouse study suggests that those extra infected are also excellent super-spreaders, so the real-world clinical results are great if you are trying to spread it but not so much if you claim this would improve health outcomes.
The FDA Advisory Committee is circling the wagons.
“I was angry to find out that there was data that was relevant to our decision that we didn’t get to see,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, a group of external advisers that helps the FDA make vaccine decisions. “Decisions that are made for the public have to be made based on all available information – not just some information, but all information.” …
But but, wait for it!
The six FDA and CDC advisers interviewed by CNN said that this infection data wouldn’t have changed how they voted, because the data had such limitations, but it still should have been presented to them.
“There should always be full transparency,” said Dr. Arnold Monto, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and acting chair of the FDA advisers’ group. “These data should not be dismissed. They are early, but they indicate that we need to look at them and see what their value is.”
I dont know about the FDA but the public whose health they are charged with protecting needs its own advisory committee with oversight over the FDA and it’s advisory committee. I mean seriously. “The Internet” has done more relevant and accurate work on everything COVID since the politicians announced lockdowns. And looking back they got a lot more right than anyone inside the system meant to watchdog in the interest of public health.
But then health was never the goal. The CDC is only know admitting that things went sideways early and side-effects could prove troubling.
Why are they even admitting it? Why is the FDA Advisory Committee saying oops, we did it again?
Millions will or have been harmed, up to and including death and that’s no joke.
What are they planning that requires the mea culpas as cover to claw back some sliver of credibility?
HT | Igor Chudov
