AFAIK the advisory panel can be overruled. FDA itself can still approve it.
Edit: Advisory panel approved boosters for some cases as well (ZeroHedge below, but saw it in various places last night):
Update (1620ET): Minutes after the FDA advisory panel rejected the Biden Administration's plan to dole out booster shots to patients as young as 16, the same panel returned and voted unanimously to temporarily approve Pfizer Booster jabs for patients who are either a.) 65 or older, b.) immunocompromised or c.) both.
Not even overruled. Advisory committee votes are not binding on any component of a drug application.
FDA can and has approved drugs that were unanimously voted against. These meetings used to have some value, but today FDA mostly convenes them as a way of building consensus and an appearance of having done their due diligence. What the committee says or how they vote won't change the outcome of a drug approval, which FDA frequently decides on prior to the meeting.
I'd argue for the elderly there is a clear case. Elderly already can die of a lot of things and we know that beervirus drop them.
Our main concern was with how it'll fuck us 20-40 year olds up with those "rare" side effects that well, are way worse than what the elderly have been dealing with.
I'm kinda ok with the exceptions, it's when they try to get the rest of us to take it and we have the rest of our lives to live. What's going to happen down the line? We don't know. If people start growing a third penis we'll know who we can blame.
You know that if they ever admit that the vaccines do jack shit and if they're long-term more dangerous than the spicy cough the narrative will shift overnight to blaming it all on the Trump vaccine.
AFAIK the advisory panel can be overruled. FDA itself can still approve it.
Edit: Advisory panel approved boosters for some cases as well (ZeroHedge below, but saw it in various places last night):
Not even overruled. Advisory committee votes are not binding on any component of a drug application.
FDA can and has approved drugs that were unanimously voted against. These meetings used to have some value, but today FDA mostly convenes them as a way of building consensus and an appearance of having done their due diligence. What the committee says or how they vote won't change the outcome of a drug approval, which FDA frequently decides on prior to the meeting.
I'd argue for the elderly there is a clear case. Elderly already can die of a lot of things and we know that beervirus drop them.
Our main concern was with how it'll fuck us 20-40 year olds up with those "rare" side effects that well, are way worse than what the elderly have been dealing with.
I'm kinda ok with the exceptions, it's when they try to get the rest of us to take it and we have the rest of our lives to live. What's going to happen down the line? We don't know. If people start growing a third penis we'll know who we can blame.
That's the foot-in-the-door-mentality of how everyone loses all their freedom.
Ass-covering. They want some plausible deniability when this all blows up.
Which it will.
And that's when they blame Trump.
2020: "TRUMP IS NOT A DOCTOR!"
2022: "TRUMP INVENTED DEATH JUICE!"
This... Trump killed Israelllllllllll!
You know that if they ever admit that the vaccines do jack shit and if they're long-term more dangerous than the spicy cough the narrative will shift overnight to blaming it all on the Trump vaccine.
Just in time for 2024, no doubt.
kek
At least the FDA did something good for once.
They did vote 18-0 in favor of booster for those 65 and up though.
How else are you going to cull the old sucking on the welfare teat?