Experts are split on whether the FDA should have signed off on boosters earlier, but they agree that the messaging has been confusing — and could lead to some people not getting boosters at all.
“We’ve had the evidence for the need for boosters for several months,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.“When you have people exaggerating their work situation or their medical risk situation or feeling like they have to flat-out lie to get the protection they need, that’s a failing on the FDA and CDC’s part,” he said.
Tener Goodwin Veenema, a professor and visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agreed. While the FDA could have used more nuanced language — such as more forcefully indicating that their initial decision was based on the best available data at the time — the messaging problem was unavoidable, Poland believes.
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