Among the reasons Fauci is so popular with journalists is his delight in spreading fear, the bread and butter of America’s corporate media.
2) it predicts that the childhood vaccine authorization will proceed regardless of the evidentiary basis.@VPrasadMDMPH explains plainly the current absurdity: https://t.co/4hA3bA1rpo
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The two FDA officials that he mentions at the 1:25 mark are Marion Gruber, Director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, and her Deputy, Phil Krause, who both resigned due to undue political pressure from the Biden Administration and, you guessed it, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Starkmanapproved calls them "Unsung heroes,"
I mention this not to cast judgment on the CDC insiders, but rather to provide context in understanding the bravery and character of Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and a 32-year veteran of the agency, and her deputy, Phil Krause. Gruber and Krause resigned three weeks ago reportedly because of undue political pressure from the Biden Administration and Dr. Fauci to approve Pfizer vaccine boosters for all Americans 16 and over.
This shocks me. First time I am hearing of it. The FDA actually voted in favor of not authorizing the booster. Wow.
FDA’s vaccine advisory panel, comprised of the leading vaccine experts in the U.S., on Friday validated the positions of Gruber and Krause, voting overwhelmingly 16-2 not to authorize the boosters, except for people who are 65 and older or at risk of severe disease.
Unfortunately, the kicker is that the FDA isn't bound by the independent panel's decision.
The decisive vote gave me hope that doctors and scientists still have some measure of control and influence over America’s pandemic response, although the FDA isn’t bound by the independent panel’s decision. The agency is temporarily overseen by Janet Woodcock, under whose watch an Alzheimer’s drug was approved despite the recommendation of an independent advisory panel. Woodcock is a Biden Administration appointee.
I had no idea that Zients was an Obama aide and that Woodcock was a Biden Administration appointee. The democrats really are running the asylum.
It’s alarming that politics would figure into decisions impacting the health of Americans and others around the world, as the FDA’s decisions carry considerable weight with regulatory agencies of other countries. Biden’s closest advisor and vaccine czar is Jeffrey Zients, a former Obama aide whose only education credential is an undergraduate degree in political science. Zients made millions serving as a healthcare consultant, an industry rife with conflicts and ethically challenged behaviors. A company Zients oversaw owned a controversial anesthesia outsourcing firm that was involved in so-called surprise billing and other questionable practices. Zients isn’t remotely qualified to make scientific determinations. More on Zients can be found here.
This is absolutely fascinating.
Even more alarming is that by Dr. Fauci’s own admission, there’s little science backing up his aggressive advocacy for boosters. As recently as last week, Fauci admitted at a conference that U.S. data so far revealed only an “inkling” that Pfizer’s vaccine lost substantial efficacy after six months. Fauci was relying on Israeli data, which leading experts warn might not be representative of the U.S. experience.
Fauci admittedly is a physician-scientist and immunologist, but interpreting scientific data is a highly specialized function and requires an expertise that the National Institutes of Health, whose infectious disease unit Fauci oversees, doesn’t have.
“It’s no secret that FDA doesn’t have the disease experts in the way that the NIH does,” Diana Zuckerman, a former senior advisor to Hillary Clinton and president of the nonprofit National Center for Health Research in Washington, D.C., told Kaiser Health News. “And it’s no secret that the NIH doesn’t have the experts in analyzing industry data.”
It has seemed pretty clear to me that Fauci, even when he gets technical on any specifics with the vaccines that, he is mostly about talking points designed to keep people in fear and coralled.
KHN on Thursday posted a feature that revealed Fauci was scheming as early as January to promote boosters, even before Covid vaccines were widely available. In February, scientists working under Fauci organized an international group of epidemiologists, virologists and biostatisticians to track and sequence covid variants. In March, Fauci’s scientists were experimenting with monkeys and reviewing early data from humans showing that booster shots provided a rapid increase in protective antibodies — even against dangerous variants.
Fauci’s initial thesis was that boosters would be required and he was determined to stick with it regardless of whether real world data supported it.
Does this say it all about who Anthony Fauci is? It's not just money, folks, though that too. It's about power as much as it is about the money. Why do you think he hasn't retired or even been asked by anyone in authority to retire? The guy loves power and will do anything, I mean anything, to seize it.
Among the reasons Fauci is so popular with journalists is his delight in spreading fear, the bread and butter of America’s corporate media. It’s a skill Fauci honed from his AIDS crisis days. In May 1983, after a scientist published a paper in the medical journal JAMA that an infant had contracted AIDS, Fauci created panic with his speculation that the disease could be contracted through household contact, a theory the New York Times and others reported on.
The infant contracted AIDS through pregnancy, but Fauci’s reckless speculation resulted in gays being ostracized because of fears one could contract AIDS from routine contact. Phillip Magness, of the American Institute for Economic Research, has more insights on this. (Be forewarned: the corporate media dismisses the AIER as an irresponsible right-wing think tank. Magness provides links that confirm his allegations.)
Please read the entire article. It is a must-read.
Here is the article he refers to at the 6:30 mark, titled, "BNT162b2 Protection Against the Omicron Variant in Children and Adolescents, . . ."
