As of December 17, Paul Offit (on the FDA advisory committee that voted against boosters) thinks that for young, healthy people the risk of getting the third dose is higher than the risk of not getting it. He also opposes third dose mandates. Go to 46 minutes on TWiV 844[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhN4rC19RI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhN4rC19RI</a>
The charlatan also “predicted” we would achieve herd immunity in April 2020.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-april-11613669731" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-apri...</a><p>His Twitter feed is a cesspool of motivated reasoning.<p>Lazy people posting crap like this to HN is what is bringing down the quality of this site.
FTA
>> The U.S. government is pushing Covid-19 vaccine boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds without supporting clinical data. A large Israeli population study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month, found that the risk of Covid death in people under 30 with two vaccine shots was zero.
He claims that he is not an anti-vaxxer but for sure sounds like one. Can somebody please point me out how Pfizer vaccine is causing more hearth AE in young people than COVID-19 does?