Sen. Ted Cruz is now promoting skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines by citing a Pfizer executive's testimony before the European Parliament that the vaccine was...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. with Cruz's office defending his comments.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz is promoting vaccine skepticism, accusing Pfizer and U.S. officials of rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine without testing whether it would curb transmission of the coronavirus. “They had zero scientific basis, zero data, backing it up,” Cruz said, referring to vaccine recommendations from federal officials and mandates on the military, federal workers and contractors. “It was politics. It wasn’t science. It wasn’t medicine.”
What Cruz didn’t mention is that regulators didn’t require evidence the vaccine slowed transmission of COVID-19. Vaccines generally aren’t evaluated on that basis. Rather, the regulators wanted to know whether people who got the vaccine were less likely to get seriously ill, or have symptomatic infection. That evidence was overwhelming by the time the FDA approved Pfizer’s vaccine in December 2020.National School of Tropical Medicine“It’s called ‘weaponized health communication’. It’s dishonest,” he said of Cruz’s comments and other efforts that fuel vaccine hesitancy.
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