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I think people don’t think of them as medicines. But some of them can interfere with therapies like a medicine can, including chemotherapies, it’s really important for doctors to know what you are taking.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was angry to find out that there was data that was relevant to our decision that I didn’t get to see. Angry because they should trust us to make the decision based on all the data. These agencies, whether it’s the FDA or CDC, can’t make that decision for us. That’s the point of having an independent advisory committee.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This was not acceptable. I understand we’re in the middle of a pandemic. I understand we’re building the plane while it’s still in the air, but you can’t do this, it did shake my faith. It shook my faith in how these decisions were being made.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
' Do the benefits outweigh the risks' is something I can support, but I do have some concerns about this vaccine.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Every year, 3 ½ to 4 million children are born in this country who are unprotected. They are going to need to be protected for some time, and the sooner the better, the sooner you can do it safely.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Where's the evidence that somebody over 50 benefits from a fourth dose ? Because the evidence to date appears to support the possibility for those over 65, although I haven't, we haven't, seen all the data, absent that evidence, then there shouldn't be this recommendation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Where's the evidence that somebody over 50 benefits from a fourth dose ? Because the evidence to date appears to support the possibility for those over 65, although I haven't, we haven't, seen all the data, but where's the evidence for a 50 to 64 year old ? Where's that evidence ? Because absent that evidence, then there shouldn't be this recommendation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The FDA would have sent the message to the general public that something's wrong with this vaccine. And then [ if ] we come back a few months later and vote yes, people may still be suspicious or less likely to take the vaccine up, my word to parents who have young children is that this is not a' no' ; it's a' not yet,'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm always up for studying more. That's the last refuge of the academic scoundrel : more studies.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Independent of whether there's mandates or not, I think people should reasonably wear masks when they're indoors for the next few weeks until we're much farther down then where we are right now, we're almost there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So, what I would say is, independent of whether there's mandates or not, I think people should reasonably wear masks when they're indoors for the next few weeks, until we're much farther down then where we are right now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Right now, we have about 90 % population immunity, meaning people who have either been naturally infected or immunized or both -- that's good. We're moving into the warmer climates -- that's good. This is really basically, at its heart, a winter virus. The numbers are way down from where they had been -- that's good. But you still had 150,000 cases yesterday and 1,000 deaths. That's still a lot of cases and deaths, so, what I would say is, independent of whether there's mandates or not, I think people should reasonably wear masks when they're indoors for the next few weeks, until we're much farther down then where we are right now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we need to show why a booster dose is clearly of benefit to 18-29 year-olds, because if it's not clearly of benefit, we have to consider the fact that myocarditis was a second dose phenomenon and may also be a third dose phenomenon. Do the benefits clearly and definitively outweigh risks for 18-29 year old ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we need to be transparent about this decision, and the best way for us to be transparent is to hold advisory committee meetings at both The FDA and the CDC so the public can hear the discussion about why this an important thing to do.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This false notion was born of this letter that was actually written to the European Medicines Agency, which is like the European equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration, claiming that there was similarity between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is what you're making an antibody response to when you get these vaccines, and a protein that sits on the surface of placental cells called syncytin-1.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
First of all, that wasn't true. Those two proteins are very different. It's like saying you and I both have the same social security number because they both contain the number five. So that was wrong to begin with, if it was affecting fertility, if natural infection was affecting fertility, then birth rates should have gone down, but that's not what happened. Birth rates have actually gone up slightly. So, those are two pieces of evidence that argue against this vaccine or natural infection in any sense affecting fertility.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The administration got what it wanted, to be perfectly honest, I think this was shoved down our throats.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I agreed that those over 65 benefit from boosters and then it just opened the door, we've created this monster.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What is going to be the change in the arc of this pandemic by giving a third dose to people who are already vaccinated as compared to giving two doses to people unvaccinated ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're being asked to approve this as a three-dose vaccine for people 16 years of age and older, without any clear evidence the third dose for a younger person, when compared to an elderly person, is of value, if Stanford University Medical Center.They's not of value, then the risks may outweigh the benefits. And we know the 16-29-year-old is at higher risk of myocarditis.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They completely subverted the process. They marginalized the FDA and marginalized the CDC, you just can't do this the way that they did it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's been no evidence of clear erosion of protection against serious disease.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's confusing to people. I've had a number of calls and emails from people saying,' Wait, so I'm not fully protected anymore ?' i think the message that should come out right now is if you received two doses of mRNA vaccines, you have a very high chance of not having serious infection, and that that has lasted up until the present moment, that you should consider yourself protected against serious illness.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Last August, we had a fully susceptible population, and we didn't have a vaccine. Now, we have half the country vaccinated, and many have already been naturally infected, which is protective, but nonetheless the numbers are worse... the delta variant is one big game changer.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You are going to be doing trials in four thousand, seven thousand, ten thousand children and then you are going to be giving vaccine to millions of children, we're moving as quickly as we can, it's just not easy to move that quickly when you talk about doing big vaccine trials.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Does getting full approval for an adult vaccine, does that matter in terms of speeding up the process for approval for the childhood vaccines ? I think the answer to that question is probably no.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think they realize that at least there's a psychological issue with how these vaccines are viewed, in terms of whether they're a licensed product or just approved through EUA.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think from the standpoint of the public, it really shouldn't matter, it's been given to half of the American population. We have more than 300 million doses out there. This is far from experimental. We have a tremendous safety and efficacy portfolio on these vaccines -- I mean, it's more than most licensed products that are out there now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Usually children are picked up incidentally as having( coronavirus). Someone in the family was infected, a friend was infected, so they got a PCR test. And they're found to be positive. ... Then they're fine.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're not going to be able to stop this pandemic until we have a significant percentage of the population( fully) vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The virus will continue to reproduce itself, continue to cause suffering and hospitalization, and worse still, continue to have the chance to make variants that are much more resistant to vaccine-induced immunity.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think the chance that this was created by laboratory workers -- that it was engineered -- is zero.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You let the the first people who volunteer to get these vaccines be older adults, and then middle aged adults, and then we work our way down the age ladder, somebody may ask,' Gee, why don't you do them simultaneously ?' Well, there's not that bandwidth. You just can't do too many trials simultaneously.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We should be driven by the science, right now, the science tells us the two doses of the mRNA vaccine or a single dose of the Johnson Johnson vaccine would protect you against severe critical disease caused by the Delta variant.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think that vaccines will keep you out of the hospital, will keep you out of the ICU, and will keep you from dying.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This makes me worry that people will be unnecessarily frightened about these vaccines.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There was concern this would be misunderstood -- that people would think myocarditis was associated with vaccine, a colleague who was on the call said' This could put the kibosh on teenage vaccination.'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What I do know is they have to allow this, this is now the third pandemic strain that has raised its head in the last 20 years. The first was SARS 1, the second was MERS. I think that we can assume that we're not done with this.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we need to fix this. We need to impress on people the importance of vaccination to stop the virus, how many more variants need to be created before this gets their attention ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That didn't happen, now, we're asked to trust other adults in a situation where there's every reason not to trust a lot of people right now because there's so much denialism out there. There's so many people who don't wear masks, who don't get vaccinated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some people are on cancer chemotherapy. They can't be vaccinated -- they depend on the herd to protect them.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Usually children are picked up incidentally as having( Covid-19). Someone in the family was infected, a friend was infected, so they got a PCR test. And they're found to be positive. ... Then they're fine.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They don't completely escape, but they've started to escape, they're warning shots.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The American public should understand that there is a risk, but it's an exceedingly rare risk, by basically putting a scarlet letter on this vaccine, by scaring people about this vaccine, by not really trusting them to understand the concept of relative risk, we may have done more harm than good, and there are people now who won't get a vaccine because this is the vaccine they would have gotten.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In a better world, we would have abundant quantities of this messenger RNA vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna, and that would be damning for a vaccine that's clearly less effective. But that said, we have limited quantities of mRNA vaccine.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would make an effort to get an mRNA vaccine first, not being able to get it, and knowing I might not be able to get Pfizer or Moderna for many months, and knowing this virus is still ranging across the country, I would take JJ in the secure knowledge that I could get Pfizer or Moderna later.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think it's going to change at all under the new administration.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is a little worrisome that you see a lesser neutralizing antibody response, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are unprotected, the goal of this vaccine is to keep you out of the hospital and to keep you out of the morgue. If you get a symptomatic infection or mildly symptomatic infection that is not a burden to the healthcare system.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The thing about anaphylaxis is although it is frightening to watch, it's easily identified, it's quickly identified, and it's easily treated with epinephrine, i don't see how taking this off the market is a conservative thing to do or exercising an abundance of caution. I think all it does is put people at risk unnecessarily.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are going to be people who either aren't getting this vaccine or aren't getting their second doses of vaccine, which then puts them at risk in a situation where we have a virus which is rapidly spreading in the country, there's going to be another probably roughly 100,000 people that die over the next couple of months, and among those people could be those who are not getting this vaccine because of quote-unquote' an abundance of caution.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The( US Food and Drug Administration) is generally so good at making sure that there is no lot-to-lot variation that you don't have a problem with so-called hot lots.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's 20 % of the population who, when they're re-exposed to this virus, are not going to become sick with it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The weather will get warmer, when the weather gets warmer, that makes it much more difficult for this virus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think where people are right now is they have the vaccine and they just want to get it out there.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They made the big gamble. They were willing to throw away hundreds of millions of doses if the vaccine were not safe or effective, when we look back on this historically, we will see this as a year when a remarkable amount was achieved in a short period of time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think what's happening here is you're seeing bullying, at least at the highest level of the The FDA, and I'm sure that there are people at The FDA right now who are the workers there that are as upset about this as I am.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The one thing you can't truncate or coalesce or overlap is the Phase 3 trial, the proof is in the pudding. The Phase 3 trial's the pudding and now you're going to test hopefully 10, 15, 20,000 people that will get this vaccine, 15,000 people that will get placebo and you'll see to what extent this is really safe and you'll see to what extent it's effective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Given how this president has behaved, this incredibly dangerous scenario is not far-fetched.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You are about to give a vaccine to tens of millions of people, i really wouldn't issue a press release about a number of people who you could invite to a small outdoor barbecue.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
People can claim what they want, but the proof is in the pudding, and this is the pudding.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The consent form was a three-by-five( inch) index card that says,' I allow my child to participate in a BLANK trial,' and then you would sign it, that could never happen today. And that's the fastest it could be done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't do this for the flu, and it's known to cause 30,000 deaths in The United States every year.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think the conservative thing to do would be to cast a wider net.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My gut says we're going to be able to contain this real quick -- we're going to be able to put a moat around this fire, i think this is going to be much more like SARS or MERS than the movie' Contagion.'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When you look at babies that have received aluminum-containing vaccines, you can't even tell the level has gone up.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When Darla Shine talks about how great it was that Darla Shine had measles as a child, what Darla Shine forgets to mention is that Darla Shine gets to tell Darla Shine story because Darla Shine's alive. The ones who died -- we don't hear from them.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
At this point, you've had 17 previous studies done in seven countries, three different continents, involving hundreds of thousands of children, i think it's fair to say a truth has emerged.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think we are at a tipping point, i think people need to realize that a choice not to get a vaccine is not a risk-free choice. It's a choice to take a greater risk, and unfortunately right now, we are experiencing that greater risk.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Do we have to wait until there's a few thousand cases of measles and children start to die. Will that move us ? invariably it is the children who will suffer from our ignorance.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If the bar is set at two doses, which is what Kathryn Edwards need the first time Kathryn Edwards get it, then unfortunately there are going to be some kids who don’t end up fully vaccinated even when their parents do bring them in for that first dose.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's the Garden of Eden. And what have we done? Brought this virus into the Garden of Eden.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
What I do is basically say, 'When you love your child, you bring your child to us to care for your child. By saying you don't want to get vaccines, you are asking me to practice substandard care,'.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
He will live in a vegetative state probably for five years until he dies from something else. Basically, we snuffed out potentially a 75-year-old perfectly normal life because of a false concern that vaccines would do harm, or in their misguided notion that somehow religion teaches us anything other than we should care for our children.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
So is it possible that people who are asymptomatically shedding polio virus walk into this country? I think it happens all the time, and if enough people choose not to vaccinate, then these diseases come back and that's what we're seeing.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
But for my children, who are 22 and 20, they not only don't see these (diseases), they didn't grow up with these diseases, for all the talking we do, nothing talks louder than the virus itself or the disease.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
The flu vaccine will prevent influenza virus and the influenza virus only, certainly we see a lot of mixed respiratory virus infections in our hospital. We'll see often two viruses that are infecting at the same time. ... That makes it all the more important that you get your flu vaccine.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
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