Posted on 07/17/2022 10:53:35 AM PDT by conservative98
CNN — U.S. health officials have been in active discussions with the Food and Drug Administration on whether the agency will authorize a second booster vaccine for Americans under 50 years old, the nation's top infectious disease expert shared Saturday.
"Hopefully we'll get an answer reasonably soon," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN's Laura Coates.
Advertisement Second boosters have been authorized for U.S. adults 50 and up, as well as certain people with weakened immune systems, since March. But for anyone under the age of 50, only one booster is authorized.
Fauci's comments come amid a worrisome time in the pandemic for many across the country. Daily COVID-19 case rates have surged again and hospitalizations and deaths are also up, fueled by the omicron offshoot BA.5, which experts have said is the most contagious variant yet.
Last week, the subvariant caused almost two out of every three new COVID-19 infections in the U.S., according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky recently said while experts don't yet know much about the severity of the variant, "we do know it to be more transmissible and more immune-evading."
"People with prior infection, even with BA.1 and BA.2, are likely still at risk for BA.4 or BA.5," she said.
Earlier this week, the White House COVID-19 response team urged Americans who were over 50 to get a second vaccine booster but had less to offer Americans under that age range, saying the FDA is considering second boosters for that age group.
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“...worrisome...”
What pansies are seriously worried?
Waiting for the bribe to clear the laundry matt?
Fauci is so yesterday.
Second? I skipped the first 2.
Anyone above the age of 50 who hasn't had a COVID-19 vaccine dose this year should get one, former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb says, as we wait for an updated booster to be available this fall. pic.twitter.com/glmHadP17R— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 17, 2022
* former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb...AND Pfizer board member says... https://www.pfizer.com/people/leadership/board_of_directors/scott_gottlieb-md
Already got mine. Answer that is. Still NO. 😳💉💊🚫
Fauci said the fake vaccines don’t work good no how so or words like that , maybe he changed the definition again ,LOL
I’m done with the shots. Traveling is overrated.
Nice weasel wording…2d booster
More like “ 4th shot”
They know this is doing nothing in Israel or making things worse by damaging innate immune systems leaving people vulnerable
NATURAL RECOVERY RATE (i.e. NO FAKE & DANGEROUS VACCINES)
vaxx salesman says we need more vaxx
scott needs a new ferrari
Because the fake boosters worked so well on people like Dr Fubar 🤪
Surely, even the brain-dead far-left has figured out the scam by now.
Look at the see bs host on the edge of her seat sucking it up like a good libtard propagandist yes woman servant 🤪
I got yer answer riiiight here!
Fauci is J. Edgar Hoover of the NIH!
Those heels she is wearing are more dangerous than covid...sheesh
It deserved repeating.
Fuchchi speaks...pharma grins...more bonnuses
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