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ing this surge of Washington Post article describes my pushing to be more aggressive during this surge of BA.5 variant: Biden officials push to offer second booster shots to all adults Plan would make coronavirus shots available to millions more amid rising cases, hospitalizations. By Dan Diamond, Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun While the booster plan still needs formal sign-off from regulators and public health officials, it has the backing of White House coronavirus coordinator Ashish Jha and Anthony S. Fauci, the government's top infectious-disease expert, according to five officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plan. In an interview, Fauci said that he's "leaning" toward allowing second booster shots for younger adults, pending authorization from the Food and Drug Administration and agreement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While persuading those who haven't gotten vaccinated or fully vaccinated to get the full regimen and their first booster shot is critical, Fauci said, "we also need to allow people who are under 50 to get their second booster shot, since it may have been months since many of them got their first booster." "If I got my third shot [in 2021], it is very likely the immunity is waning," Fauci added. July 12, 2022 Was called to the White House for a meeting with Ron Klain, Ashish Jha, Sec. Becerra, Richelle Walensky and Dawn O'Connell. Ron was really ****** that he is getting a lot of Flack from New York City who feels that they are not getting enough doses of monkey pox vaccine. Ron is upset with the formula of distribution among the states. He feels that doses are being sent to places with few cases and not being used and there are lines of people waiting to get vaccinated in New York City and they are making a big stink about this causing what may turn out to be a political problem for POTUS. I kept quiet through most of the discussion which was pretty tense between secretary Becarra and Ron. However, it became clear to me that the lesion was that the contractor who is shipping the doses from Denmark to the United States do not appear to realize that this is an emergency and they're talking about sending one plane per week with about 140,000 doses per plane. I brought up the point when Ron mentioned that I was being very quiet and he wanted to know my opinion. I said that it is inconceivable to me that we cannot do better than 140,000 doses shipped per week when we have about a million doses in Denmark sitting ready to be shipped. I believe that this is an example of people not pressuring to get things done during an emergency and accepting business as usual. The astounding fact is that they said that the reason they have to rely on the plane flying back from the United States to Denmark to reload with another bunch of vaccines is that they only have limited carriers to put the vials in when they are shipped on the plane. What are they talking about?? One can make carriers with 3D printers. In addition, I don't understand why they can only do 140,000 at