Nevertheless, before the program officially closes, the health body did still "strongly encourage everyone who is currently eligible for a first booster and is yet to come forward" and receive one.
A Pfizer executive claims in a video that the company had been exploring ways to "mutate" the coronavirus via "directed evolution" by experimenting on monkeys and the Delta variant, which is more contagious, was discovered in India a month after Pfizer announced its monkey research.
“Promise you won’t tell anyone. The way [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them," the Pfizer executive says.
"I believe we should stop trying to prevent all symptomatic infections in healthy, young people by boosting them with vaccines containing mRNA from strains that might disappear a few months later," writes doctor.
HHS oversight of gain-of-function research “does not fully meet key elements of effective oversight" and "fell short in terms of transparency and performing reviews."
The Lancet, a well-respected U.K. medical journal, is advocating for a major shift in healthcare perspective, moving away from a human-centered approach and instead embracing "ecological equity," which is said to value all life equally.
