Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "FDA authorizes Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine boosters l GMA" video.

@uio890138 The chair has 20 years of experience at Baylor. They have I believe 18 members in total, all MDs, all experts in virology. Science has always voted on things, how else are they supposed to verify anything. You think they take every single paper produced at face value? No. There are multiple steps in place to review that information. They didn't decide if Pluto was a planet or not through some weird dictatorial rule, they voted on it based on a logical set of criteria that they discusses. They don't decide the best treatments for things on papers alone, they discuss the validity of those papers. The idea that you think there is some grand overarching being capable of deeming something "scientifically verified" is just silly. So yes, there is a problem here, and it's your ignorance of how science actually works.
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Previous FDA commissioner. When they stepped down they took the job at Pfizer.
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@silverwolf6866 Wild speculation based on your own opinion of what you would do in the same position. You love to see it.
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They literally voted on it at a panel of scientists and medical experts.
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@Dcurc2257 Delta was in India before the vaccines even existed. How simple are you?
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@nikki-ey1li They stopped the Alpha variant months ago, the issue is the newer variant. They also reduce the spread as they have a minimum 42% efficacy against Delta.
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@yehimstone5492 USPS were not part of the federal guidelines because they are an independent agency that operates under the executive branch, not a federal agency. They are not however exempt from the the newer mandate that affects all businesses with over 100 employees. That new guideline falls under OSHA, and USPS is subject to it. You are confusing the two separate mandates. NBA players are allowed to opt out because vaccination is not the only requirement on the mandate. You can also opt for weekly testing to stay employed, and NBA players are probably testing daily. Unvaccinated players also have to travel, eat, change and pretty much everything else separately from vaccinated players. Hollywood elite is a weird one to bring up, but same reason. Mandate applies to employees at companies of at least 100 people. Most Hollywood people are independent in some way or another. Congress cannot be subject to executive orders due to the separation of powers. Congress would have to vote for their own mandate. White House staff are in fact subject to the mandate.
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@cjlaity1 Of course it is. If anything the FDA has a financial incentive to NOT approve things and have them reviewed over and over.
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@Time Traveler Don't forget BioNTech who literally invented the jab Pfizer is producing.
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@cjlaity1 So? Lots of licensing groups are funded by people they are regulating. The DMV gets their funding from the people they are testing and registering. So what?
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@armchairquarterback2672 Florida is doing worse than Israel, and Australia have had less than 100K cases EVER. They were open for a really long time as well.
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@cjlaity1 They don't pay when things are approved, they pay when things are reviewed. Big difference.
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@Dcurc2257 Well sure, because the vaccine was created for Alpha, not Delta. The end result is that, while they have a high vaccination rate, people can still get infected. That being said, Vermont's "all time high in cases" is just over 200 cases a day when averaged over 7 days. With their population that puts it to 346 per million per day. Compare this to some of the less vaccinated states and you'll see the issues. For example: Florida - peaked at 26,951 infections, adjusted for population they had 1,255 infections per day per million. That's almost 4 times Vermont. South Carolina - peaked 5,532 - adjusted 1,074 Louisiana - peaked 5,839 - adjusted 1,260 How about weekly death peak per capita, maybe they're better for the various states: VT - 25.6 (in December, recent peak is only 14.4) FL - 122.7 SC - 118.3 (in January, recent peak is 83.5) LA - 98.1 (in April, recent peak is 72.9) Amazingly Vermont is doing better than any of these places, and is having less deaths than even itself back in December, just as the vaccine was rolling out.
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@Dcurc2257 But you were just using those numbers to show there is a surge in Vermont. Now that they don't agree with your position you are backing down? I didn't say the vaccine is outdated and ineffective, I said it is less effective than it is against Alpha. Weird you still keep going on about the President when we're talking about covid and vaccines. Are you a little bit obsessed? Got Biden on the brain? BDS? As for being annoying with him, no. He's done more in a few months than Trump did in 4 years. You want to see the world cringe, watch the UN laugh at Trump. Watch news reports of Trump shoving his way in front of his piers at G20. The world WAS laughing, and now the adults are back and getting things done.
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@FaintAura In what way? He used to be in the FDA and now he isn't. So what?
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@evileyegaming405 Only if they still have a financial stake in their current companies. He no longer works there. He has no stake.
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@nikki-ey1li Sure, with Delta. Not seeing a lot of Alpha these days though are we?
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@nikki-ey1li That's still true for Alpha as well though, the difference is the efficacy of the vaccines. For Alpha it was 95%, but for Delta it's lower. Estimates range from 88% to 42% on that, but many vaccinated people cannot catch Delta. In reality however we'll soon need a new version of our current vaxxes to fight variants.
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@nikki-ey1li Medicines that only work if everyone takes them....like the small pox vaccine. We didn't eradicate small pox until a large percentage of the population was inoculated.
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@nikki-ey1li Not delta, but you aren't exactly seeing a lot of the original virus around these days.
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