Rochelle Walensky, CDC head, overrules science advisors for crass political reason.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky shamefully puts aside her scientific qualification to hand President Joe Biden what he thinks is a political victory.

In the early morning darkness Friday, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, endorsed additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for health care workers, teachers and other workers at risk, a category so floppy that it will help President Joe Biden justify his pre-scientific, politically inspired decision to boost his booster shot scheme.

The New York Times story in an understatement, called it a “highly unusual move” because the the director’s endorsement of the scientific recommendation is widely considered to be just a formality. As the Times story noted:

Dr. Walensky’s decision was a boost for President Biden’s campaign to give a broad segment of Americans access to boosters. The White House had come under criticism for getting ahead of the regulatory process.

The vote was close according to the scientist quoted below, but she added:

“I am surprised that Dr. Walensky overturned one of the four A.C.I.P. votes today, and I believe others will be as well,” said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, an infectious disease expert at Stanford and the American Academy of Pediatrics liaison to the committee.

Even some of her staff members were surprised, the story reported. Walensky’s decision goes even further beyond an looser FDA recommendation:

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots for certain frontline workers. But the C.D.C.’s advisers disagreed that the doses were needed by so many healthy people.

Look for Biden’s shadow government to waste no time rolling out the booster shots today. Biden, of course, will consider this a political victory. For people who follow the news with an unpolluted woke mind, it will be another reason to bash him.

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