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Another day, another Biden mess.
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"We’re being asked to approve this as a three-dose vaccine for people 16 years of age and older, without any clear evidence if the third dose for a younger person when compared to an elderly person is of value," committee member Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said at the time.
The controversy over boosters in the early fall was compounded when two FDA officials - the director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review, Marion Gruber, and its deputy director Phil Krause - resigned from the agency.
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"It is a slap in the face to science for @US_FDA to circumvent the standard convening of the expert advisory board... FDA is quietly doing this because their experts previously voted it down, voicing concerns about medical harms," Makary tweeted Saturday.
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Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who is also a physician, criticized the Biden administration on Twitter Sunday for the government "ignoring its own rules to push booster vaccines on kids for a disease is that is less deadly in children than the seasonal flu."
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"We’re being asked to approve this as a three-dose vaccine for people 16 years of age and older, without any clear evidence if the third dose for a younger person when compared to an elderly person is of value," committee member Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said at the time.
The controversy over boosters in the early fall was compounded when two FDA officials - the director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review, Marion Gruber, and its deputy director Phil Krause - resigned from the agency.
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"It is a slap in the face to science for @US_FDA to circumvent the standard convening of the expert advisory board... FDA is quietly doing this because their experts previously voted it down, voicing concerns about medical harms," Makary tweeted Saturday.
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Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who is also a physician, criticized the Biden administration on Twitter Sunday for the government "ignoring its own rules to push booster vaccines on kids for a disease is that is less deadly in children than the seasonal flu."
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Critics question Biden FDA's approval of COVID boosters for children: 'Slap in the face to science'
The Biden administration is facing backlash over the Food and Drug Administration’s process for recommending coronavirus boosters for children.
www.foxbusiness.com