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Trump officials say yearly COVID shots will no longer be approved for healthy adults and children

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2mo ago

Trump officials say yearly COVID shots will no longer be approved for healthy adults and children

www.pbs.org /newshour/health/trump-officials-say-yearly-covid-shots-will-no-longer-be-approved-for-healthy-adults-and-children

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They want us sick, dying, and dead.
- Yeah and not so smart, oh and hate your neighbors especially if they have a different skin color, religion, money etc.
  Just don't pay any attention to anything else.
Hopefully Canada will help us sane people trapped behind enemy lines
- Time to open up a clinic right on the border!
  Actually a vaccination clinic should be put in that library that straddles the border. That would be pretty neat.
  
  They blocked access to it from Canada. It's still halfway in Canadian land but no Canadian can go in.
  
  I generally cross at Derby Line. So sad to see that bs happening there.
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.
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- A Republican pulling up a ladder of opportunity behind him now that he can get his shots?
  I'm shocked. shocked!
Shut up and eat yer horse paste. /s
There goes one of the two things he did right. What next? Bringing back the ha'penny?
Joke’s on them, we’re a bunch of heavy-breathing girthybois
- Yeah, guess I need to hover around obesity weight and down a liter of water before my yearly checkup.
The vast majority of people under 65 years of age are not at risk of becoming severely ill.
- Vaccines are not just about individual health. Smh.
  
  That is true for perfect vaccines (like measles) where mutation is low and transmission is halted.
- Tell that to my father-in-law who came hours away from dying, and myself who had blood counts so low, they thought I was dying from cancer.
  The current strain may not be as deadly, but the next version could absolutely be worse. This removes the ability protect against those changes in the future.
  
  That was the Danish health system telling it. Doctors there can still prescribe covid vaccines for at risk under 65s.
- What's your point?
  
  This is a common policy around the world. Not specifically brain worm induced.
- Long COVID has caused millions of people to suffer. Is the cost of a vaccine too high for that?
  
  Yes, vaccination definitely helps reduce long covid but boosters don't seem to have a significant effect.
  (Those links are a few years old, maybe more recent data shows a stronger long covid risk reduction from boosters)

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