The Food and Drug Administration unveiled plans Tuesday to narrow its approval for updated coronavirus vaccines to older adults (65+) and people with at least one health condition that puts them at high risk for severe disease, marking a significant shift in the agency’s approach to green-lighting the shots.
Say what?!?! If I was under 65, I would be angry. I don't understand the logic. The Covid-19 vaccine has been available to nearly every age group for 3 + years, it should remain available to everyone unless it is no longer approved.
Here is an article with a list of "Conditions that put people at high risk for severe covid", thus making them eligible for the vaccine.
UPDATE:
CDC changes approvals for COVID-19 vaccinations. Countering RFK Jr.s policy, the CDC kept Covid shots on the childhood immunization schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old...
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Wow. I had no idea.
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Wow. I had no idea.
CDC changes approvals for
CDC changes approvals for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely countered Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.
The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old, but added a new condition. Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor or provider, which the agency calls “shared decision-making.”
The shots will also remain available under those terms to about 38 million low-income children who rely on the Vaccines for Children program, according to an emailed update from the C.D.C. on Friday.
Well.... The CDC is being
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Well.... The CDC is being dismantled.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he was removing the entire membership of the influential vaccine advisory panel that makes immunization recommendations for the United States...
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...marks the latest move by Kennedy that raised alarms among proponents of vaccines. He also forced out the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine scientist, hired a vaccine skeptic to scrutinize CDC vaccine safety data and has offered mixed messages about measles vaccines amid one of the worst outbreaks in decades.
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Kennedy is the founder of an anti-vaccine group...
Pertussis
My GP yesterday said Whooping Cough is on the rise in the US. That and measles are very bad diseases.