ACIP slides: it is a BAD decision to add this to the SCHEDULE 👇
This vaccine has (a) no convincing evidence it helps the 86% of kids who already had covid & (b) no evidence it will help kids in 2027 against whatever new strain comes
CDC data shows parents don't want it🧵
93.1% of parents don't want to vaccinate their young kids
That is for good reason; there is no RCT data this vaccine lowers severe disease in this age group, and even the observational studies I am aware of (flawed) look at 5-11
No study pertains to kids where 86% had covid
CDC slides also full of errors and bad decisions
They are stacking 2 booster doses in adolescents-- this should raise concern of unnecessary myocarditis that might be averted with omission or spacing the last dose
They assert this as fact, but surely at some point the calculus tips
a 20 year old man who got 3 doses and just had OMICRON- benefits from a bivalent booster targetting an earlier strain?
No evidence supports this, and it is nonsensical
What about dose #20?
This slide does not account for changing facts on the ground. Omicron and prior immunity have drastically changed these numbers
PS these numbers we also wrong when they first put them forth, as we explained
CDC does not make vaccine requirements, but they clearly play a huge role. The more they endorse covid vax the more they pave the way. I owe my unnecessary booster mandate to them
You have to be incompetent to think a kid who had covid MUST get COVID vax. Just no good data
Other countries recognize this and don't push so hard.
It's not even the CDC making these decisions. It's a handful of people who were appointed by the White House because they liked their CNN spots.
They managed to cover the study without mentioning that a 16% response rate to a survey is so abysmal that no medical journal would publish it under normal circumstances. It would wind up in the trash.
It's no secret that Republicans are an endangered species in academic medicine and public health.
I am a Bernie Sanders supporter who wrote 2 books on strengthening the regulatory state (read them) but even I can see how this will be abused to make endangered, extinct.
There is a broader debate about how many shots are necessary for a 20 year old man. That is apolitical.
Selectively crying misinfo & demanding academic freedom be paved over is the road to hell
Someday we Dems may be in minority in University. sometimes Dems get things wrong