{"id":714163,"date":"2021-09-03T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=714163"},"modified":"2021-09-03T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:21:17","slug":"lagging-data-may-push-back-bidens-booster-shot-timeline-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lagging-data-may-push-back-bidens-booster-shot-timeline-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagging Data May Push Back Biden\u2019s Booster Shot Timeline: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flagging-data-may-push-back-bidens-booster-shot-timeline-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=714163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Booster-Shot.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Two federal health officials warned the Biden administration on Thursday that the COVID-19 booster plan the White House outlined earlier this summer might not be possible because of insufficient data, The New York Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/03\/us\/coronavirus-booster-shots.html\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> Friday morning.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The officials, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and FDA acting commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock, made the comments in a meeting with White House pandemic coordinator Jeffrey Zients. From The New York Times:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\"><em>Among the reasons for delaying is that regulators need more time to decide the proper dosage for a possible third Moderna shot. The company\u2019s application asking the F.D.A. to authorize a booster shot contains insufficient data, one federal official familiar with the process said. Other data expected from Johnson &amp; Johnson has not been delivered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\"><em>Nor has the raw data that the F.D.A. has been seeking from Israel, which is already giving boosters to&nbsp;everyone 12 and older. Israeli officials say their data shows that the potency of Pfizer\u2019s vaccine wanes over time against severe disease and hospitalization, but that a third shot bolsters protection significantly. The F.D.A. wants to see the underlying data, to make sure it backs up summaries that the Israeli government has provided.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Only last month, President Joe Biden said his administration was preparing to begin booster shots beginning the week of September 20, contingent on FDA approval.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot,\u201d Biden said on August 18, notes The New York Times. The president added, \u201cIt will make you safer, and for longer. And it will help us end the pandemic faster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The move by the two health officials will likely slow down the Biden administration\u2019s rollout for vaccine boosters, a push that some experts already believed was premature of the administration to announce.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the heat of the moment and when we\u2019re all dealing with a real public health emergency, it becomes almost doubly important that we continually reassess and have the normal processes in place,\u201d Jesse Goodman, a former chief FDA scientist, told Stat News back in August.&nbsp; \u201cAnd I do worry that we not put the cart before the horse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHow did you pick the week of September 20?\u201d former FDA vaccine head Norman Baylor remarked to the medical news website at the time.&nbsp; \u201cSince this meeting hasn\u2019t occurred and you don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going to say \u2014 this is an independent body \u2014 suppose they say: \u2018We don\u2019t think so.\u2019 Then what are you going to do with that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/09\/03\/booster-shot-delay-pfizer-first\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, White House spokesperson Chris Meagher said the administration was intent on following the science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always said we would follow the science and this is all part of a process that is now underway,\u201d said Meagher. \u201cWe are awaiting a full review and approval by the FDA and a recommendation by the [CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices]. When that approval and recommendation are made, we will be ready to implement the plan our nation\u2019s top doctors developed so that we are staying ahead of this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>The booster plan has also been controversial among some federal regulators, who believe that, by setting a date for the COVID-19 booster plan rollout before the data was fully reviewed, the Biden administration was interfering in the vaccine\u2019s regulatory process.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Two top FDA officials also recently announced they would be stepping down. Although the reason for their departures has not been clear, POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/31\/biden-booster-plan-fda-508149\">reports<\/a>, citing a former FDA official, they may have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-biden-admins-top-down-booster-push-may-have-prompted-resignation-of-two-fda-officials\"><span>motivated by anger <\/span><\/a><span>about the administration\u2019s decision to weigh in on boosters too soon.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Frustration at the FDA reportedly prompted Woodcock to issue a memo to staff on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cThe issues are complex and the days are long, but please know the work you all have done to date and will continue to do in the days, weeks and months ahead, will hopefully one day allow us to fully put Covid-19 behind us and better prepare us for future challenges,\u201d said the memo, reports POLITICO.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to The New York Times, Walensky and Woodcock told the White House on Thursday that there may only be enough data to recommend booster shots for <em>specific recipients<\/em> of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Weeks ago, however, the Biden administration was publicly saying they hoped to start boosters for adults who had received the Pfizer vaccine and the Moderna vaccine.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The White House, in response to the report, told The New York Times that they were waiting for booster shots to receive \u201cfull review and approval\u201d and were going to \u201cfollow the science.\u201d They also said they would, upon FDA approval, \u201cimplement the plan our nation\u2019s top doctors developed so that we are staying ahead of this virus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two federal health officials warned the Biden administration on Thursday that the COVID-19 booster plan the White House outlined earlier this summer might not be possible because of insufficient data, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}