Steven Joffe of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on CDC Director Rochelle Walensky’s decision to expand COVID-19 booster shot eligibility, saying she may have been influenced by the Biden administration’s earlier support for the move. “To what extent did she feel like she was bound to follow that line of decision-making?” he said. “I can’t get inside her head and answer that question. The fact that the final decision makers had already staked out their final positions had put the advisory committees in a very difficult position.”

September 24, 2021 ・ From The New York Times