I think the point was attempting to isolate factors.
Receiving a booster would effectively confound the factors dramatically -- timing of dose, amount of dose, batch of vaccines, etc would all play a larger role.
This is pretty much how normal studies are conducted.
Regarding the comment:
> Unfortunately, in this case it's not a news article. It's Florida's government health officials. And instead optimizing for ad clicks, they're optimizing for staying in office. Nothing about this paper should have been used as a basis for policy. That only thing this is a basis for is "further study".
The policy of pulling up to a facility, not speaking with your doctor, and getting an untested vaccine without monitoring is also a strange policy. The news, politicians, and NIH pushed it because it was believed to have overall beneficial effects to the community; but we didn't and still don't know the long-term effects.
My understanding is the surgeon general of florida has a difference of opinion and based on the risk profile of young males (very very low risk of covid) and from the risk which appears to be present in the COVID19 gene therapies has made a different determination.
For reference moderna is still completing it's phase 1(!) trial for the COVID19 vaccines
Receiving a booster would effectively confound the factors dramatically -- timing of dose, amount of dose, batch of vaccines, etc would all play a larger role.
This is pretty much how normal studies are conducted.
Regarding the comment:
> Unfortunately, in this case it's not a news article. It's Florida's government health officials. And instead optimizing for ad clicks, they're optimizing for staying in office. Nothing about this paper should have been used as a basis for policy. That only thing this is a basis for is "further study".
The policy of pulling up to a facility, not speaking with your doctor, and getting an untested vaccine without monitoring is also a strange policy. The news, politicians, and NIH pushed it because it was believed to have overall beneficial effects to the community; but we didn't and still don't know the long-term effects.
My understanding is the surgeon general of florida has a difference of opinion and based on the risk profile of young males (very very low risk of covid) and from the risk which appears to be present in the COVID19 gene therapies has made a different determination.
For reference moderna is still completing it's phase 1(!) trial for the COVID19 vaccines
https://eua.modernatx.com/covid19vaccine-eua/providers/clini...
It's likely the risk profiles will change over time. The study is set to complete Nov 22, 2022.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT04283461
Also note, this is run by Moderna, not an independent compny so... we shall have to wait longer for any independent trials.