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.
I thought it was “my body my choice”?
I want a COVID shot.
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?
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)
The same kind of dumbass that thinks going for a swim in doo doo rivers is a good idea.
I guess my immune-compromised ass will be staying at home for the rest of forever.
Viruses often cause health issues later on. Chickenpox can cause shingles, mono can cause a whole fuckton of diseases years later, long covid is common enough for it to not be a conspiracy anymore. This stupid choice is going to create a population with poor health for decades to come
You might still be eligible as a person with a health problem that puts you at more risk
This is my experience: I caught covid while in the hospital, despite being vaccinated and boosted. The people in the unit I was in were also vaccinated, so I know they were sharing a reduced viral load. I got extremely sick, not quite on a vent, but lucky I was already in a hospital. If the rest of the population is sharing full viral loads, I will probably not survive if I catch it again
Ah yeah … can’t really become immune to a constantly changing virus either 🫤 and it’ll only change faster the more people have it
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.
Make America Great Again…by bringing back covid?
Jokes on them, most Americans aren’t healthy
Maybe we’d be a little healthier if you didn’t chop down all those trees, Paul.
The dumbest, most cruel timeline.
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.
And remind your congressman that Canada just had a district lose an election by a single vote.
Canada here. I recently received a reminder to update my COVID-19 shot (free). I choose to protect myself, and my family. Appointment has been scheduled. SCIENCE rocks!
Ummm can I get a vaccine if I hop on over to Canada? Actually nvm the fear of ICE makes it not worth it
I used to visit the states fairly often. I’m afraid to now.
To whomever downvoted. Please educate yourself. Read about the Polio vaccine, and the lives that were saved.
Man I hope the combined covid and yearly flu becomes a thing and just call it the yearly multi flu shot or something.
Believe it or not? Placebo controlled trials of tens of thousands of people.
Yes, well, Trump did such a great job during the Covid Epidemic.
