BOOSTER SHOT IN THE DARK
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk boosters. |
| 0:02.2 | Okay. |
| 0:03.2 | The day after our show last week, the Burback Committee met. |
| 0:08.4 | That's the FDA's advisory committee. |
| 0:10.2 | That's their vaccines and biological products advisory committee, which makes recommendations |
| 0:14.8 | for the FDA and Pfizer walked into this meeting with a study of about 300 volunteers allegedly |
| 0:20.9 | showing that boosters work, slapped it down and said, we want full authorization for all |
| 0:25.1 | adults in the U.S. |
| 0:26.4 | Well, that was very similar to what Biden announced that he wanted as well. |
| 0:31.6 | The eyes were on this committee. |
| 0:33.0 | They voted that down 16 to 2. |
| 0:35.5 | But then something rare happened. |
| 0:37.1 | They went back. |
| 0:38.1 | The committee went back, reformulated the question and they voted to allow it for at least |
| 0:44.3 | recommended for 65 and over and immunocompromised people. |
| 0:48.8 | This is Pfizer shot. |
| 0:50.4 | So really the big story is not the vote. |
| 0:53.6 | The big story is actually the data that was presented and the conversations that happen, |
| 0:58.0 | especially from the public comment. |
| 0:59.8 | So let's jump into those. |
| 1:01.2 | Here's the senior editor of the BMJ. |
| 1:03.8 | Peter Doe sheek, we've talked about him on the show before. |
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