What if I told you one in 50 people who took a new medication had a “medically attended adverse event” and the manufacturer refused to disclose what exactly the complication was — would you take it?And what if the theoretical benefit was only transient, lasting about three months, after which your susceptibility goes back to baseline?And what if we told you the Food and Drug Administration cleared it without any human-outcomes data and European regulators are not universally recommending it as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is?That’s what we know about the new COVID vaccine the Biden administration is firmly recommending for every American 6 months old and up.The push is so hard that former White House COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha and CDC head Mandy Cohen are making unsupported claims the new vaccine reduces hospitalizations. long COVID and the likelihood you will spread COVID.None of those claims has a shred of scientific support.In fact, if the manufacturers said that, they could be fined for making false marketing claims beyond an FDA-approved indication.
