The 30 minutes were allotted by former President Joe Biden’s top health officials to discuss policies that will shape the professional future for millions of federal employees, firefighters, teachers and nurses.

On a short Zoom call on October 12, 2021, the Biden administration sought advice from four experts on policies requiring Covid-19 vaccines to the scope of workplaces that employ 100 million people.

Three of the four healthcare professionals supported previous infections with Covid-19, which has contributed to vaccine mandate, the Daily Caller News Foundation learned. Two of these experts said previous infectious diseases should be counted as one dose of two dose mRNA vaccines. (Related: Check out Family Bonds with House Dem Champion Status at NIH)

Despite repeatedly telling the public to trust science, the Biden administration ignored its hand-picked experts. The administration has determined that previous infections of Covid-19 will not count towards vaccine mandate due to the bureaucratic hurdles posed by the policy, one external expert said.

But that’s not what Biden’s top health officials have told the public.

when The policy was forced by the parliamentmanagement staff like Anthony Forsey, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), did not mention logistical challenges, and instead advocated the importance of hybrid immunity, avoiding problems enough for previous infections alone.

Their decision had far-reaching implications. Despite being plagued by legal challenges, the obligation forced thousands of Americans to quit their jobs. Hundreds of healthcare workers Resignation, termination, or placed on administrative leave 8,000 members of the military He was discharged from the hospital to not receive the vaccine. Some local governments and county governments – including New York City and Los Angeles – Followed by the suit.

The new details land in a national debate over the scope of the administrative authority to fire federal employees and contractors through government efficiency (DOGE).

We also encouraged the 5th anniversary of Covid-19 home orders A fresh look In part of the pandemic’s public health message. Even some experts at Bitter Loggerhead over his vaccine statement from Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy agree that opaque decisions during the pandemic have caused lasting problems in public trust. (Related: German government reportedly hid Intel as Wuhan Lab Leak “80-95%”)

The 2021 meeting included Fauci, Walensky, US surgeon Vivek Murthy, and Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They sought feedback from four scientists: Paul Offit, a vaccineologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, an immunobiologist at Yale University School of Medicine, Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at University of Minnesota, and Vaccinologist Hottes at Baylor University Medicine.

Offit first revealed a meeting about the vaccine order January 2022 YouTube interview. In February 2023, the Epoch Times reported details documenting the outlets obtained at. Request for Freedom of Information Act. Offit previously described the expert as splitting 2-2, but clarification from all participants by the DCNF revealed a split closer to 3-1.

Three of the four scientists — Offit, Iwasaki and Osterholm — told the DCNF that they recall that pre-infectious diseases are leaning towards a position that should count against vaccine orders, but also highlighted the boost to the immunity awarded by the vaccine. (Related: Wuhan Institute of Virology Collaborators Calls Dangerous Research – 5 Years Later)

“People were angry that they were required to take the vaccine despite being infected naturally. And that was true, frankly, you were protected from severe illness,” Offit said in an interview with DCNF.

Iwasaki emailed DCNF and she said Discussed Benefits of Infection after vaccinationshe preferred to identify previous infections with single dose vaccines.

“We thought the vaccine would increase antibody levels and be beneficial regardless of infection,” Iwasaki said. “But I don’t remember saying that previous infections should not count towards vaccine requirements. I was leaning towards the previous infection count as a vaccine dose.”

Osterholm also supported that the infection was considered to be comparable to one shot of a two-shot mRNA regimen, his aide confirmed to the DCNF.

In an email to the DCNF, Hotez said his position remains that vaccinations are needed to prevent repeated infections, but he could not recall details of the meeting and downplayed his impact on the Biden administration’s decision as a non-government scientist.

“I don’t remember that particular meeting, for a long time. And my view, to the best of my knowledge, has no effect on government policies. I have no position with the government. But I don’t think my view has changed much,” Hotez said. “If you’re unlucky enough to get infected with one of the original strains of viruses, including alpha and delta, it should give you a considerable amount of protective immunity. However, if you have a natural infection and you’re not vaccinated, you’ll be born at a heavy price in terms of hospitalization, heart attack (SARS-2 is a virus of thromboembolic), STROKES, LONG COVID.”

Offitt said the majority of experts were rejected by the Biden administration due to logistical hurdles involved in proof of immunity.

“The question is, bureaucratically, if people can go to the internet and say, “Look like I’m naturally infected,” will that work? It became a bureaucratic issue.” I said in a podcast interview.

The administrative authorities did not cite any bureaucratic hurdles to promote decisions in the fall of 2021. Insisted on vaccination Even those suffering from previous infections to long-term immune cells were important. This contrasts with what Offitt personally advised.

“The obligation works,” Fauci said in a November 2021 Interview. “That’s not because we want to deprive people of their individual rights.”

The government’s “responsibility to society is the reason it fulfills its obligations,” he said.

In an interview with Congressional investigators In January 2024, Fauci acknowledged that it would need to be investigated whether the mandate may have encouraged vaccine hesitancy.

“We really need to look at the spirit of the country. There may be social studies to grasp it. The vaccination obligation is, like the current mental framework, so that more people don’t want to get vaccinated?” the enemy said.

Divergent diagnosis

Offit and Kennedy, for a long time rivalthe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) diagnoses the problem very differently.

“We will work together to launch a new era of radical transparency,” Kennedy said in a speech to HHS staff in February.

Last week, HHS released a new tool to make it easier for users to search for apparent conflicts of interest among members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee (ACIP) on Vaccination Practices.

WASHINGTON, DC – February 13: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak after being sworn in as secretary to the Department of Health and Human Services in the White House oval office on February 13, 2025. Faced with criticism of past comments about the vaccine, Kennedy was confirmed by Senate 52-48. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Additionally, NIH’s acting director Matthew Memory. Cancelled grants Earlier this month we will be researching ways to increase vaccine uptake. Recently, grants studying mRNA technology have undergone special scrutiny. KFF Health News Report. Memory itself I opposed Biden administration’s vaccine order.

In an interview with the DCNF, Offit confirmed that the Biden administration has made an unclear decision to “supply public distrust” over Covid-19.

In September 2021, the month before the meeting on vaccine obligations, Offit was one of the Vaccine and Related Bioproduct Advisory (VRBPAC), a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s external advisory board. I disagreed with the recommended booster For people at high risk of severe illness.

Offitt said certain statements in booster shots by Fauci, Walensky and former White House Covid-19 advisor Ashish Jha “lacks the specific humility that helped me out.”

However, Offitt strongly rejects Kennedy’s view that dangerous vaccines can be approved due to the impact of the pharmaceutical industry in government. He argued that poor decisions on Covid-19 could not be linked to lobbying or personal gains, and instead denounced the Biden administration for its failure to pursue an overly simple public health message.

“I dislike the term “radical transparency.” It feeds this general sense that a plot is happening,” Offit said.

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