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 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