Dr. Paul Offit, a current member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, startled the left after his warning about the newest COVID booster.
“Who really benefits from another dose?” Offit said during an appearance on CNN.
“A healthy young person is unlikely to benefit from a booster dose… If there’s not clear evidence of benefit, then it’s not fair to ask people to take a risk,” he added.
The vaccine expert said that the latest booster has few assurances and risks.
“A healthy young person is unlikely to benefit from the extra dose,” he said.
“When you are asking people to get a vaccine, I think there has to be clear evidence of benefit,” the FDA official said, admitting trials were not done for the latest booster. “You’d like to have, at least, human data,’ he said. So far, the only tests on the new shots have been done on lab mice.”
“Right now they’re saying we should trust mouse data, and I don’t think that should ever be true,” Offit said.
“If there’s not clear evidence of benefit, then it’s not fair, I think, to ask people to take a risk no matter how small,” he added.
Offit even went as far as to say that the results of the COVID vaccines were “underwhelming.”
FDA advisor and vaccine maker Paul Offit: “A healthy young person is unlikely to benefit from a booster dose… If there’s not clear evidence of benefit, then it’s not fair to ask people to take a risk.” pic.twitter.com/SgBp5WZbMS
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Offit’s comments come about seven days after Biden declared the “pandemic is over.”
“The pandemic is over,” Biden told 60 Minutes. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, and so I think it’s changing.”
