Written by William Hale<\/p>\n
Dr. Anthony Fauci has suggested that a booster shot may be required to achieve \u201cfully-vaccinated\u201d status. Today, a person is considered fully-vaccinated when they have received two doses of a Pfizer or Moderna shot, or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n The international scientific debate regarding the COVID vaccines remains ongoing, but the emergence of variants like Delta and Omicron have produced concerns over long-term decreases in vaccine efficacy, thus necessitating boosters. Predictably, this waning efficacy has challenged Fauci\u2019s former requirement for the \u201cfully-vaccinated\u201d label.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut there\u2019s no doubt that optimum vaccination is with a booster\u201d Fauci said in an interview with CNBC, \u201cI mean, there is no doubt about that.\u201d The definition of \u201cfully-vaccinated\u201d wasn\u2019t the only term the Chief Medical Advisor hinted at changing this week; Fauci suggested that the word \u201cMandate\u201d should be swapped with \u201cRequirement\u201d when discussing COVID vaccine regulation. \u201cMandates \u2014 that’s a radioactive word. Requirements people seem to respond better to that. They work,\u201d said Fauci.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever the term, having only been inoculated with two shots of Pfizer or Moderna may not be good enough for Fauci and his bureaucrats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps surprisingly, this obsession with the semantics of COVID vaccines hasn\u2019t come alongside much damage from Omicron, as the United States has yet to report a single death from the variant. Highly populated states like New York, Florida, California and Texas are all seeing a sharp increase in cases, but infection with Omicron seems to generate largely mild symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Photo Cred: Graeme Jennings, Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by William Hale Dr. Anthony Fauci has suggested that a booster shot may be required to achieve \u201cfully-vaccinated\u201d status. Today, a person is considered fully-vaccinated when they have received two doses of a Pfizer or Moderna shot, or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The international scientific debate regarding the COVID vaccines remains ongoing,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"\n