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.
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.