4.24 COVID-19: Moderna booster, Myocarditis, Progressivism, Social Media, Masks, Tests, J&J booster

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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We have a summary of our thoughts for you on recent news about COVID. We discuss the prospect of FDA authorization of a Moderna booster, 8 lessons for health policy in times of crisis, updates on myocarditis data from Israel and Europe, how our experiences with COVID warn us of the possible end to democracy, how progressivism is dead, why social media should not censor views, the CDC's new masking studies, the slogan "follow the science", weekly testing of vaccinated college students who don't have symptoms, the survival of science after COVID, and the question of requiring a booster to follow the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew

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1:11.2	Does the Moderna two-dose vaccination sequence need a booster?
1:15.5	Well, the FDA is going to weigh in on that decision in the advisory committee meeting coming later this week.
1:20.1	I've had a chance now to read the guidance documentation provided by the FDA for the ongoing discussion.
1:25.8	And it is quite interesting.
1:27.9	Now, of course, Moderna always had a higher dose than the Pfizer vaccine.
1:31.9	The dose in Moderna 100 micrograms was 2.3 times as much as the Pfizer dose.
1:37.3	Now, Moderna is submitting an EUA for a one-dose booster at 50 micrograms, half the dose of the first two shots. And it is going
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