"The growing split between Biden’s team and outside health experts on boosters threatens to disrupt a key source of support the administration has relied on to sell its vaccination drive to the American public."
2- "It undermines credibility not just for [federal health] agencies but for the administration overall,” said Irwin Redlener, director of the Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative at Columbia University. “Somebody needs a communication lesson. Maybe many people do.”
Ouch.
3- "The Sept. 27 call was originally planned for the week before. The White House abruptly rescheduled it after the CDC’s independent vaccine advisory committee recommended that the Pfizer-BioNTech booster be reserved for high-risk groups, including the elderly."
Clown show.
4- "The rescheduled call was the tensest one to date, according to the three people with information on the talks."
Trouble in paradise.
5- " Fauci argued that the CDC committee’s stance — that science did not support giving boosters to all adults — was incorrect."
Welp, this what happens when you let a megalomaniac run around declaring "I am science".
6- "Fauci’s remarks drew disagreement on the call, the five people familiar with the matter said. Several participants were left mystified about the goal of the government’s vaccination campaign."
Well, I guarantee Joe Biden doesn't know.
7- "The dichotomy between the Biden team’s boosters-for-all philosophy and the targeted use endorsed by the health agencies and their independent advisory panels has frustrated some of the nation’s leading doctors."
Also it's frustrated the entire country.
8- "Others say that with the pandemic closing in on its third year and no end in sight, the administration must make tough decisions on boosters without full data."
Wait, I thought Mr. "I am going to shutdown the virus" had a plan?
9- "The public health community still trusts that the administration is being honest and forthright in its decision-making, four outside experts said. Yet the booster saga has left it deeply divided."
Lol, the public health community may still trust them but nobody else does.
10- Now the question is: Who leaked this and why?
I'll need to ponder that one.
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2- "While Maine has among the highest vaccination rates in the nation, some fully vaccinated people are still contracting the coronavirus – and some have been hospitalized or died."
As with all these stories, first acknowledge the obvious. Then spring to the defense.
3- "That’s because the vaccines do not prevent infection with the coronavirus. Instead, vaccines are designed to teach the body how to fight off an infection by triggering an aggressive immune system response that will hopefully prevent severe illness."
2- "But the lack of tangible progress ... are testing the legislative acumen of a president who prides himself as a consummate creature of Capitol Hill."
Lol imagine writing "creature of Capitol Hill" like it was a positive attribute.
3- "Biden is coping with House Democrats ... as well as senators who prize their independence and may be impervious even to presidential pressure."
1- Recently watcher the movie “Shattered Glass”, about reporter Stephen Glass & the numerous stories he literally made up for then prestigious “The New Republic” in the late 1990s.
2- … independent publisher “fact-checking” of stories often just means the final story matches the reporter’s raw notes.
If an enterprising reporter makes up notes or is being fed bs; welp, it’s considered fact-checked.
Glass did this for years before he was busted (cont).
3- And it wasn’t just “The New Republic”. From the linked article:
“..the compelling wunderkind who had seeped inside the skins of editors not only at The New Republic but also at Harper’s, George, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones.”