Topic: WorldNetDaily
Misleading about COVID and its vaccines is what WorldNetDaily does, and it took another stab at it in a Sept. 7 article by Bob Unruh:
The Food and Drug Administration is charged with making sure products, including medicines, delivered to American consumers have been tested for safety.
And a Pfizer booster shot that delivered in 2021 purportedly to help consumers fight off the COVID-19 pandemic was.
On 23 people.
That stunner comes from Judicial Watch, which reported on its access to 58 pages of records from the FDA.
They revealed "a Pfizer study surveyed 23 people in 2021 to gauge reactions to its COVID vaccine booster before asking the FDA to approve it."
But as a credible meida outlet reported, this isn't that big of a deal:
The FDA's decision to consider Covid boosters without human data is in line with how it evaluates modified vaccines for influenza each year. Clinical studies in humans aren't required for the approval of seasonal influenza vaccines, even when they're reformulated for strain changes, said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former FDA vaccine chief.
In other words, the COVID vaccine itself has already been tested and found safe, so there's no need to do comprehensive testing of the vaccine's safety again when the only thing that has changed is the strains being targeted, which is how flu vaccines are run. But rather than tell readers this relevant fact, Unruh simply chose to serve up fearmongering stenography: "Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch chief, noted that the public "would do well to examine these troubling documents" because of the 'shotgun approach' to earlier boosters, in light of the Biden administration's new push for more shots."
Misleading stories like this do nothing to make anyone want to trust WND.
