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Biden Administration Weighs Speeding Up Booster Shot Timeline to 5 Months

6 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago

rogerkirkness 5y ago
Did Biden get a biomedical engineering PhD overnight? Why would the President be the one to make this decision?
- AndrewBissell 5y ago
  I've updated the title to say that it's the "Biden Administration" that is weighing this decision, which I believe is a more accurate headline. The article says he is in talks with Anthony Fauci about it.
  - rogerkirkness 5y ago
    Makes way more sense.
nanis 5y ago
Slowly converging to MWF shots & house arrest for anyone who skipped one out of the most recent 131 shots or some such.
- nanis 5y ago
  * First, EUA was for a two-shot regimen. * Then, a booster after 8 months was proposed[1]. * Then, booster date was moved to 6 months[2] after second shot. * Then, the interval between second shot and booster shot goes down to 5 months[2]. First shot is followed by three weeks of reduced immunity. It takes two weeks after the second shot, one is considered fully vaccinated. That means, one gets to be in "fully vaccinated" status for a mere 4.5 months. So, it took a week to go from eight months to six months, but only a day to go from 6 months to 5 months. [1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/18/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-announce-new-actions-to-protect-americans-from-covid-19-and-help-state-and-local-leaders-fight-the-virus/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... [2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-plans-covid-19-vaccine-boosters-at-six-months-instead-of-eight-11629919356 https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-plans-covi...
tomohawk 5y ago
If they want to actually tackle this, they should be focusing on getting everyone in the world vaccinated. As long as we have large populations where this is running rampant, there is lots of places for variants to come from. Until then, maybe Biden should stop the massive super spreader event at our southern border that's been going on for months. EDIT: Oh, and maybe focus on vaccinating the people coming across the southern border and enforcing all of the COVID restrictions there that the rest of us have to follow when we travel across the same border.
aalkg 5y ago
The biden regime should be more concerned about the gallows being strewn up in DC as we speak instead of the bio-weapon that Fauci funded the Wuhan lab with.
aalkg 5y ago
Hey - at least the US is not building concentration camps like the Aussies are right? Right?

rogerkirkness 5y ago

Did Biden get a biomedical engineering PhD overnight? Why would the President be the one to make this decision?

AndrewBissell 5y ago
I've updated the title to say that it's the "Biden Administration" that is weighing this decision, which I believe is a more accurate headline. The article says he is in talks with Anthony Fauci about it.
- rogerkirkness 5y ago
  Makes way more sense.

nanis 5y ago

Slowly converging to MWF shots & house arrest for anyone who skipped one out of the most recent 131 shots or some such.

nanis 5y ago
* First, EUA was for a two-shot regimen. * Then, a booster after 8 months was proposed[1]. * Then, booster date was moved to 6 months[2] after second shot. * Then, the interval between second shot and booster shot goes down to 5 months[2]. First shot is followed by three weeks of reduced immunity. It takes two weeks after the second shot, one is considered fully vaccinated. That means, one gets to be in "fully vaccinated" status for a mere 4.5 months. So, it took a week to go from eight months to six months, but only a day to go from 6 months to 5 months. [1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/18/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-announce-new-actions-to-protect-americans-from-covid-19-and-help-state-and-local-leaders-fight-the-virus/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... [2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-plans-covid-19-vaccine-boosters-at-six-months-instead-of-eight-11629919356 https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-plans-covi...

tomohawk 5y ago

If they want to actually tackle this, they should be focusing on getting everyone in the world vaccinated. As long as we have large populations where this is running rampant, there is lots of places for variants to come from. Until then, maybe Biden should stop the massive super spreader event at our southern border that's been going on for months. EDIT: Oh, and maybe focus on vaccinating the people coming across the southern border and enforcing all of the COVID restrictions there that the rest of us have to follow when we travel across the same border.

aalkg 5y ago

The biden regime should be more concerned about the gallows being strewn up in DC as we speak instead of the bio-weapon that Fauci funded the Wuhan lab with.

aalkg 5y ago

Hey - at least the US is not building concentration camps like the Aussies are right? Right?