Thursday, September 16, 2021

Today – 155,000 cases Had my every couple of weeks Zoom call with Chris Whitty (UK). Oatrick Vallance is usually on the calls, but was not on today. We discussed a number of items including the tension around booster shots that I have described above. The UK has decided that they will give boosters to everyone 50 years of age and older as well as to their health care providers and immunocompromised. They are going to wait and observe before they go any younger than 50 years of age also they will very unlikely be vaccinating children younger than 12 years old. This is in contrast to our plans to complete the clinical trials and vaccinate two as young as six months old . It is likely that we will have enough data to vaccinate children from 11 years old to five years old by the middle to end of October into early November. PRESS: Daily Telegraph – Nick Allen -print; Instagram with Jessica Waller; YouTube with Roland Martin “Unfiltered”; WTOP Radio with Mike Murillo KLN (Kaiser Health News): How Fauci and the NIH Got Ahead of the FDA and CDC in Backing Boosters By Sarah Jane Tribble and Arthur Allen September 16, 2021 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky are sworn in before testifying at a House Select Subcommittee hearing on April 15. (Susan Walsh-Pool / Getty Images) In January — long before the first jabs of covid-19 vaccine were even available to most Americans — scientists working under Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases were already thinking about potential booster shots. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. A month later, they organized an international group of epidemiologists, virologists and biostatisticians to track and sequence covid variants. They called the elite group SAVE, or SARS-Cov-2 Variant Testing Pipeline. And by the end of March, the scientists at NIAID were experimenting with monkeys and reviewing early data from humans showing that booster shots provided a rapid increase in protective antibodies — even against dangerous variants.