President Joe Biden announced last week that a new Covid booster shot “works” and is “necessary.”

The President will ask Congress to fund it, reports Marty Makray in the WSJ.

“It will likely be recommended that everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before,” assures Biden.

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Is this the new drug approval process?

There are no human-outcomes data on this new shot, which the Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve in the next two weeks.

The novel Covid booster shot may be warranted for some high-risk patients. But pushing it hard for young and old alike without human-outcomes data makes a mockery of the scientific method and our regulatory process.

Marty Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of “The Price We Pay.”