The new COVID-19 vaccine is now available at participating pharmacies and health care providers, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends it for everyone 6 months of age and older, yet not all health experts are on board.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, spoke about his concerns surrounding the updated COVID shot.
‘It’s just a really terrible idea’, Ladapo said, ‘and it’s remarkable and really spellbinding that the CDC would make that kind of recommendation in the absence of evidence’.
By ‘evidence’, Ladapo is referring to clinical trials, which were not conducted for the new vaccine.
‘The FDA and CDC could have compelled Pfizer or Moderna to conduct clinical trials- that’s something that’s totally doable- and they didn’t do it’, he noted.
In addition to the rare risk of myocarditis- inflammation of the heart muscle- Ladapo shared his concerns about other potentially dangerous side effects of the vaccine.
‘The risks are very real, which adds to the madness of the way that the CDC and the FDA are making decisions right now’, the Florida surgeon general said.
One of those risks, he said, is something called ‘negative effectiveness’- a phenomenon in which contact among vaccinated people can result in the vaccines becoming less effective.
Multiple studies across various countries and time periods have demonstrated that after a few months of boosters, the vaccine effectiveness appears to ‘go negative’, according to Ladapo.
