"We don't have the clinical evidence to say anti-vax activists are wrong. That should terrify us."

On September 17th the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee held an open session meeting to discuss the Pfizer-BioNTech booster vaccine.

One of the public contributors was Joseph B. Fraiman, MD, an Emergency Medicine Physician from New Orleans, who used his allocated 3-minute speaking time to ask for help in reducing vaccine hesitancy.

His expert opinion, as a physician working on the front line, is that the trials crried out so far have not been large enough to demonstrate that vaccines reduce hospitalisation, without finding evidence of serious harm.

Partial transcript (full video below):

"I know many think the vaccine hesitant are dumb or just misinformed. That’s not at all what I’ve seen. In fact, typically, independent of education level, the vaccine hesitant I’ve met in the ER are more familiar with the vaccine studies and more aware of their own COVID risks than the vaccinated.

For example, many of my nurses have refused the vaccine, despite having seen COVID-19 cause more death and devastation than more people have. They tell me that while they’ve seen first hand the dangers of COVID in the elderly, the obese, diabetics, they think their risk is low. They’re not wrong.

A 30-year-old female has about a 1 in 7,000 chance of catching COVID and being hospitalised over 90 days. [One of my nurses] asked me: can I assure her that the studies found her risk of serious harm from the vaccine is lower than her risk of hospitalisation? The truth is, I can’t. Our trials weren’t big enough.

We need your help on the front lines to stop vaccine hesitancy. Demand the booster trials are large enough to find a reduction in hospitalisation. Without this data, we the medical establishment cannot confidently call out anti-vaccine activists who publicly claim the vaccines harm more than they save, especially in the young and healthy.

The fact that we do not have the clinical evidence to say these activists are wrong should terrify us all.”

(Dr Fraiman's segment begins at 4:17:30)

...And watch more of the video above for additional compelling testimony and opinion relating to the dangers of the vaccines from oberservations and undisclosed trial data, and inadequate trial data to support the booster rollout.