Biden’s Booster Bungle Shows a White House in Dysfunction
By a 16-2 vote, an FDA advisory panel rejected President Biden’s plan to offer boosters to the general public as soon as next week. Putting aside for a moment the arguments for or against booster shots at this stage of the pandemic, the sequence of events on booster shots has revealed a White House in complete dysfunction.
On August 18, Biden announced a plan to start giving booster shots to every American adult starting the week of September 30. “Just remember, as a simple rule — rule: Eight months after your second shot, get a booster shot,” Biden said.
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A little more than a week later, on August 27, Biden, speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, indicated that the U.S. could actually follow Israel’s lead and speed up the timeline. “We’re considering the advice you’ve given that we should start earlier,” Biden said. “Should it be as little as five months, and that’s being discussed.”
Yet Anthony Fauci had to do damage control two days later, reiterating that, “We’re still planning on eight months.”
But — whether it was five months or eight months — at no point did Biden manage to make sure that his administration was on the same page as the FDA.
A few days later, two of the FDA’s top vaccine experts resigned over the Biden booster shot plan. Jim Geraghty walked through some of the reasons for their skepticism, which they spelled out in a Lancet article.
And today came the vote
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