FDA Head Shuts Down CBS News' Brennan When She Tries to Push the 'COVID Shot for Young, Healthy Kids'

The past few days simply have not been the CBS network's best.

First, we saw President Trump reject the offer to settle the network's defamation lawsuit as my media-minded colleague Brad Slager wrote on Friday. That offer from CBS' parent company Paramount Global, by the way, was $15 million. That could come in handy on a rainy day, right?

Then earlier on Sunday, during CBS News' longtime news program, "Face The Nation," host Margaret Brennan faced off with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the status of the Trump economy in light of ongoing tariff negotiations. The host made a wan attempt to press Bessent on the "reality" of either fewer products for consumers to buy on store shelves or higher prices.

The secretary wasn't tripped up, and thus Brennan had to sit mutely as he chided her, "Margaret, when we were here in March, you said there was going to be big inflation. There hasn't been any inflation. Actually, the inflation numbers are the best in four years."

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Ouch. And things went only downhill from there for the host. Another person from the Trump administration to sit down with Margaret Brennan was the Food and Drug Administration's head, Dr. Martin Makary, and she asked him to clarify the "confusing" policy on COVID shots/boosters.

Watch:

Brennan began, “Can you clearly state what the policy is? Because this is confusing.”

MAKARY: Yeah, we believe the recommendation should be with a patient and their doctor. So we’re going to get away from these blanket recommendations in healthy, young Americans.
On the COVID vaccine schedule, we don’t want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12-year-old girl is not getting her fifth Covid booster shot.
We don’t see the data there to support a young, healthy child getting a repeat, infinite annual COVID vaccine.
There’s a theory that we should sort of blindly approve the new Covid boosters in young, healthy kids every year in perpetuity, and a young girl born today should get 80 Covid mRNA shots or other COVID shots in her average lifespan.
We’re saying that’s a theory, and we’d like to check in and get some randomized controlled data. It’s been about four years since the original randomized trials. So we’d like an evidence based approach.

He mentioned that he and Dr. Vinay Prasad (who leads the FDA's vaccines/biologics division) had published their approach "in the New England Journal of Medicine last week." He explained that the hope is to rebuild the confidence of the American people, after the repeated cajoling under the Biden administration about booster protocols under the prevailing "theory."

But Brennan stopped him, claiming that Dr. Makary's statement "wasn't about boosters," but that the vaccine isn't recommended for pregnant women and healthy children. He was more than ready for the trap question, telling the host that he and his colleagues at the FDA would "love to see the data" on what she was saying but "it doesn't exist."

Check out the rest of the interview in the clip. I loved this part the best, though, where Makary cited stats about how American families feel about the shots.

"I don’t know if you know these statistics, but 88 percent of American kids," he told Brennan, "their parents have said no to the COVID shot last season. So America, the vast majority of Americans are saying no.”

This is awesome to witness. It's beyond refreshing to see medical professionals in our government saying it loudly and proudly: We're going to put these products through testing, and American families are showing with their actions (not getting kids immunized/boosted against COVID) that maybe that's what they would like, too. No more herd mentality on unproven scientific theories, thanks be to God. It's about time someone started listening to the American people.

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