But we tested it on 8 mice, what do you want?
Fauci: 'We don't have time to do a clinical trial' for updated COVID-19 boosters
"We need to get the vaccine out now," Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says there is not enough time to wait for clinical trials before the authorization of updated COVID-19 booster shots.We don't have time to do a clinical trial because we need to get the vaccine out now," Fauci said on CBC this week, per The Epoch Times.
Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the president, also said about 400 people each day in the U.S. are dying as the result of being infected by COVID, In addition to thousands of others in hospitals with the disease.
The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 31 authorized the updated booster shots by Pfizer and Moderna.
The shots contain elements of the original COVID strain and the BA.4, and BA.5 virus variants. But no human data has been made available for the formulations.
Preclinical testing data from experiments on mice were presented by both of the pharmaceutical firms, and references were made to the human data for a different formulation, combinations of the original and BA.1 strains.
With the BA.5 being the dominant variant in the United States, "you have every reason to believe that [the updated formulation] is going to be better than having a vaccine that isn’t highly specific to the circulating strain," also said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"That hasn't been proven in a clinical trial," he also said.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said on Aug. 29 that waiting for data from human clinical trials would leave the boosters outdated.
"If we wait for those data to emerge in human data, not just mice data, we will be using what I would consider to be a potentially outdated vaccine," she said.
