The FDA said Tuesday annual COVID shots will still be regularly approved for seniors and younger people with increased health risks from the virus.

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 yearly updates to COVID shots, saying they’d continue to use a streamlined approach that would make vaccines available 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 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 adults.

  • LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    This makes no goddamn sense. You’re saying the vaccines will be available to higher risk populations but for some reason us healthy peeps can’t get one? Why? If it is ok for people who are the most vulnerable surely it must be safe for everyone else.

    It just literally does not make sense on the face of it. What kind of dumbass thinks this is good policy?

    • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      That only makes sense with limited supply or very limited budget, but doesn’t make sense if you want to keep the whole population healthy (especially since it has positive ROI through preventative effects)

  • EightBitBlood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    For a country all hopped up on Freedom, it’s really fucked the government gets to decide what medicine is better for us rather than our fucking doctors.

    I’m so fucking done being lorded over by incredibly stupid and unskilled idiots that have more money than shits to give about America.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      1 month ago

      Maybe we’d be a little healthier if you didn’t chop down all those trees, Paul.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
    18·
    1 month ago

    Write your congressman about this. If congress sees enough pressure they will force changes. However if this (like so many other things) sees just a little response they do what they want.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      And remind your congressman that Canada just had a district lose an election by a single vote.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    111·
    1 month ago

    Man I hope the combined covid and yearly flu becomes a thing and just call it the yearly multi flu shot or something.