Bobby Brainworms says no Covid vaccine for you
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This of course is only the beginning:
Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.
Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for access to yearly COVID shots, saying they’d continue to use a streamlined approach that would continue offering them to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one health problem that puts them at higher risk.
But the FDA framework urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthier people. In a framework published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, agency officials said the approach still could keep annual vaccinations available for between 100 million and 200 million people.
The upcoming changes raise questions for people who may still want a fall COVID-19 shot but don’t clearly fit into one of the categories.
“Is the pharmacist going to determine if you’re in a high-risk group?” asked Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “The only thing that can come of this will make vaccines less insurable and less available.”
One of the greatest achievements of medical science, that saved many millions of lives both in the US and around the world, is being undermined by the religious nutcase/kale smoothies cure cancer/the Holocaust didn’t happen crank synergy.
When asked hypothetically if he would vaccinate his children today for measles during a House hearing Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said “probably,” but added he doesn’t think people should be taking medical advice from him.
“My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,” he said in response to the question from Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin during the House Appropriations Committee hearing. “I don’t want to seem like I’m being evasive, but I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”
When pressed, he repeated he didn’t want to give advice to other people.
“But that’s kind of your jurisdiction, because CDC does give advice, right?” Pocan asked. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is under HHS.
“I think what we’re going to try to do is to lay out the pros and cons, the risks and benefits, accurately as we understand them, with replicable studies,” Kennedy replied.
Teach the controversy!