
Opinion: How the confusing booster shot debacle aligns Biden with Trump's pandemic response
When President Joe Biden took office, many public health advocates heaved a sigh of relief, assuming the US was back to following the science during this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, and gone were the days of an American president touting ineffective treatments to the world.
But this latest debacle around the Pfizer/BioNTech booster shot has now not only led to the retirements of two top FDA vaccine officials, both of whom would’ve been key resources as the US soon reviews Covid vaccines for children, but also to question marks around conflicting FDA and CDC opinions and lingering debates on who exactly should receive a boost first and who should be the one that makes that decision.
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