A panel of health advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday unanimously that adults seeking boosters should go with Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine rather than Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 15-0 that the mRNA vaccines are “preferred” to the J&J vaccine because they’re the safest and most effective vaccines.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to decide whether to adopt the panel’s advice as agency policy later today.
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to rare forms of blood clotting.
Researchers with the CDC last month found people who got the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot were more likely to experience the syndrome when compared to people who got a Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
The reporting rate to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a system run by the CDC and the FDA, was 3.55 per million doses administered for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, compared to 0.0057 per million doses administered after one of the other vaccines.
The rate was the highest among women aged 30 to 39.
Dr. Naomi Wolf, a Rhodes Scholar and former Clinton Administration advisor, joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to explain why: The NIAID doesn’t hold the patents of the J&J vaccine.1
Naomi Wolf: Moderna and Pfizer have been trying to sideline Johnson&Johnson partly because as Rob Kennedy will tell you, the stakeholders at the NIAID don’t have a patent on and don’t make money on the J&J vaccine. So they want it out of the marketplace. It’s not the first time they’ve said, “Oh that bad J&J vaccine.” …Anyone who’s looked at VAERS and saw the thousands of blood clots and thrombotic events, strokes, thrombotic events, for Pfizer and Moderna as well as J&J, knows this is absolute ludicrisy.
