the Food and Drug Administration authorized bivalent boosters reformulated to target the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. At the authorization meeting, FDA officials announced the approval of these new boosters for emergency use based on data from eight mice in a Pfizer study. At the same time, the FDA revoked authorization for the original monovalent boosters—meaning anyone subject to a booster or “up-to-date” mandate will have to take the bivalent booster, which has no proven safety or efficacy data in human beings.
I have some suggestions on which people should get the booster first. Fauci, all those in the FDA who approved it, and all officers of Pfizer and Moderna.
Really RTWT
Occasional Reader
9/21/2022 5:52:55 AM
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Good morning.
That is very disturbing.
vxbush
9/21/2022 5:57:38 AM
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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: Drug Companies Test New Booster on Eight Mice and Zero Humans, FDA Approves It Anyway
Once you realize that the two people who had been the gatekeepers of new drugs left in 2020 (pulling from memory, so not positive that's exactly right), you start to see this pattern of having little to no evidence of efficacy with zero attempt at proving safety and the drugs are just getting rammed through. Any signals regarding safety that have been shown--such as studies in other countries--are completely ignored and the drugs are almost unanimously approved. This is called "regulatory capture", where the drug companies are running the FDA and CDC. Just as there is a revolving door between people in government and the media or Democrat organizations, there is another revolving door between drug companies and the FDA/CDC. It is beyond unethical.
buzzsawmonkey
9/21/2022 7:23:37 AM
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The favored treatment granted to items "approved" by the FDA has a certain resonance for me. My father was required to wear a catheter during the course of one of his later surgeries. He found the catheter to be uncomfortable/painful, so he designed a better, less-painful one, which he tested on himself and subsequently patented. He called it "the BTM," i.e., "Boon to Mankind." He partnered with some doctor or other to try and get it FDA-approved, but the many hoops they were forced to jump through ended up too great to be able get it approved and marketed.
JCM
9/21/2022 7:35:50 AM
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Bets on a new outbreak of Omicron and they mandate the booster.... or else.
vxbush
9/21/2022 8:11:20 AM
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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: He partnered with some doctor or other to try and get it FDA-approved, but the many hoops they were forced to jump through ended up too great to be able get it approved and marketed.
Barriers to improving things? Why am I not surprised.
buzzsawmonkey
9/21/2022 9:30:42 AM
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I was re-reading Orwell's essay "Such, Such Were the Joys...", which deals with his experiences at prep school, the other day. It's an in-depth examination of the class divisions in the school, and the attitude inculcated that what was truly important was not what you did, but what you were---that is, whether you were part of the "proper" class or not. Grudging respect was granted to scholarship students like himself, in that their academic success was important to the school's reputation, but the people who really counted at the school were the students who were rich, titled, or "good at games."
Our current social obsession with "identity," be it racial or sexual, is highly reminiscent of the obsession with status that Orwell describes. The idea that someone of a particular ethnic background or sexual "identification" can and should have standards altered/relaxed to compensate them somehow for their socially-constructed status is an utter negation of any concept of free will or achievement; what you "are," according to the fashion of the moment, you are frozen into and always will be. It is a profoundly stratified and anti-egalitarian worldview.
Occasional Reader
9/21/2022 10:00:19 AM
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By the way, NPR just informed me that this is “bisexual awareness week”. So, how is everybody celebrating?
buzzsawmonkey
9/21/2022 10:05:49 AM
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In #8 Occasional Reader said: this is “bisexual awareness week”
"Bisexuality" is proof that homosexual behavior is a choice, not a "condition."
vxbush
9/21/2022 10:07:51 AM
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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: It is a profoundly stratified and anti-egalitarian worldview.
Very true, and in itself could be described as anti-American, if you think of equality (not equity nonsense) of access and treatment to be the American ideal.
Being out all day, I was using too much cell phone data. I did find the agent was helpful - especially finding out I qualify for a senior discount. So 2 lines unlimited is now cheaper than 12 GB, AND there is another $20 discount for autopay.
I still dislike Verizon, but they are the only one with decent service here, but at least I am paying less.
I just have to remember to turn off Apple Music after the free period ends.
JCM
9/19/2022 7:37:47 AM
Kosh's Shadow
9/20/2022 4:08:49 PM