President Biden is facing a booster effort bogged down in criticism and confusion at home and abroad, with medical experts questioning the decision to put a public timeline on widely available booster shots.
“I think it would have been one thing to say, look, logistically, operationally the big retail pharmacy chains, departments of health, hospital system need to be prepared for giving boosters — but for it to be a communicated to the general public ‘boosters are coming Sept. 20’ is a very different thing,” said Celine Gounder, an infectious disease expert who advised the Biden transition. “I think that is where that communication went wrong.
“We have always said that this initial plan would be contingent on the FDA and the CDC’s independent evaluation,” he said. “We will follow that evaluation and their recommendations, we will make sure our final plan reflects it.” While the White House has taken criticism for the move, some public health officials have defended the approach, saying there was need for officials to have come out quickly to prepare the public for the likelihood of boosters, especially as other countries took action and the number of breakthrough cases in the U.S. rose.
The World Health Organization has called for a “moratorium” on boosters, and and other international medical groups have blasted Biden for pushing to get a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine to Americans when only 20 percent of those in lower-income countries are at least partially vaccinated, compared to around 80 percent in some of the wealthiest nations, according to the WHO.
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