Rand Paul once again had a showdown with Dr. Anthony Fauci on Capitol Hill Thursday as the senator pushed the nation’s top immunologist on whether children are going to need 10 boosters against COVID-19.
Fauci, who joined the hearing virtually after announcing Wednesday he contracted COVID, said it was ‘absurd’ to say that children would need to continue getting vaccination boosters as long as they produce antibodies, which Paul says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using as its reasoning for recommendation.
‘The government recommends everybody take a booster over age five,’ Paul saida as part of a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Thursday. ‘Are you aware of any studies that show reduction in hospitalization or death for children who take a booster?’