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Jan 15: Dr. Neil Rau on US Vaccine Specialist Challenging Covid Boosters

Roy Green Show

English - January 15, 2023 22:11 - 7 minutes - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
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NBC News is reporting a key advisor to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccine panel is questioning whether more Covid booster shots are necessary for healthy, younger people. Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that evidence supporting new versions of the booster shots for the Omicron variant which were authorized by the FDA in August is "underwhelming."
Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious diseases specialist, Halton Region, Ontario. Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Medical School.
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NBC News is reporting a key advisor to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccine panel is questioning whether more Covid booster shots are necessary for healthy, younger people. Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that evidence supporting new versions of the booster shots for the Omicron variant which were authorized by the FDA in August is "underwhelming."

Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious diseases specialist, Halton Region, Ontario. Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Medical School.

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