Feuding over when to administer Covid-19 booster shots, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health [NIH], contradicted 78-year-old President Joe Biden and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. Biden said he wanted booster shots by Sept. 20, something 52-year-old CDC Director Rochelle Walensky agreed was the right way to proceed. New research shows that the Pfizer, Moderna and J&J vaccines lose their potency over time, holding, after six months, only 33% of the immunity protection from the original vaccines. With breathrough infections largely from the Delta variant sweeping the country, Biden and Wallensky wanted to get booster shots in the arms of any fully vaccinated person after eight months, unless someone is immuno-compromised due to cancer or some other serious medical condition.
Fauci now says, while he agrees that boosters are in order, he wants to wait-and-see guidance from the Food and Drug Administration [FDA], not the White House or the CDC. “We were hoping that we would get the both the candidates, both products Moderna and Pfizer rolled out by the week of the 20th, it is conceivable that we will only have one of them out, but other would likely follow soon thereafter,” Fauci told CBS News “Face the Nation” today. Then in a stunning reversal from his backing of the White House and CDC, Fauci flip-flopped. “And the reason for that is that we, as we’ve said right from the beginning, we’re not going to do anything unless it gets the appropriate FDA regulatory approval and then the recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,” Fauci said, throwing cold water on Biden and the CDC’s attempt to get booster out by Sept. 20.
Fauci’s been knows to flip-flop from the beginning of the deadly novel coronavirus global pandemic. Fauci once said on national TV that former President Donald Trump has done everything asked of him to control the spread of the virus. Yet Fauci spent much of the 2020 presidential campaign slamming Trump on liberal radio and TV shows. Fauci once said masks weren’t necessary early on in the pandemic, saying they would have minimal value in controlling the spread. But now the White House has a real problem on its hands selling the third vaccine shot, knowing that it’s not FDA approved. Fauci’s been accused by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) of lying to his Senate committee on two occasions, denying that he ever supported “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV}. Fauci knows his NIH funding went to fund Shi Zhengli’s bioweapons lab.
When it comes to vaccines, the public has been thoroughly confused by contradictory statements coming from the White House, CDC and now Fauci, saying he defers any guidance about booster shots to the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Biden’s approval ratings have been tanking, down to 43%, largely because of the White House inability to control the Delta variant from ravaging the country. Biden’s handling the Afghan exit strategy, where 13 U.S. soldiers were killed in a ISIS-K terrorist attack, also didn’t help his approval ratings. But more than everything else, Biden’s found that Covid-19 politics can come back to bite him when he doesn’t get the results he expected. Fauci wants FDA guidance now that reports of myocarditis have become more widely circulated from mRNA Covid vaccines administered to young people.
Fauci, without admitting it, mirrors the same concerns as the FDA, who really doesn’t know the health consequences to vaccines they endorse a safe-and-effective. When it comes to booster shots, the FDA hasn’t yet determined the health risks in all age groups, certainly not the young-and-elderly. Fauci sees the benefits in boosting immunity from a third shot but doesn’t have any FDA safety data to prove that a third vaccine is safe. “We have data not that when you give a third boost to either the Moderna or Pfizer it’s very effective against any variant that we’ve tested, so that the good news about our vaccines,” Fauci said. Fauci has nothing new to report about booters currently in the works by Pfizer and Moderna to specifically address the highly contagious Delta variant. When Fauci talks of booster shots now, he only refers to third does of the original vaccines.
Turf wars at the White House, CDC and FDA are now coming out for all to see. With Fauci under the gun for supporting the “gain-of-function” research that created the deadly novel coronavirus in a WIV lab, he’s not about to give the green light on booster shots until they’re approved by the FDA. “ If you get the level of antibody high enough, which boosters actually do, then you can feel pretty confident that you’re going to be protected against virtually any variant,” Fauci said, seemingly agreeing with the White House and CDC that boosters are needed now. But like so many other Fauci statements, they’re subject to flip-flopping, all because he shoots from the hip, and often has to walk back past statements. Fauci’s go-to line is he’s “taken out of context,” when he’s caught red handed in a flip-flop or outright lie. When it comes to boosters, Fauci sits on the fence until he gets FDA guidance.
