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FDA approves new Covid-19 vaccines in US but limits who can get them

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/fda-new-covid-19-vaccines-restrictions
17•xworld21•5h ago

Comments

damnesian•5h ago
It's going to be a very bad winter.

It's back to masks for this family.

duxup•5h ago
>Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, said in a post on Twitter/X that Covid vaccine “mandates” under Joe Biden are now rescinded and that the vaccines will be available to those at high risk.

So they mandate ... who can't get them?

brianjking•53m ago
oh how very small government of them. /s
jasonvorhe•4h ago
> Kennedy, who previously founded an anti-vaccine group, has long questioned the proven benefits of vaccines and spread unfounded concerns about their safety.

And then they end the text with a quote from a PR expert founder of a pro-vaccine NGO:

> Fatima is an experienced advocate, strategist, and crisis management expert with a background spanning political campaigns, civil rights advocacy, and corporate communications. She has worked with leading PR agencies such as Hill & Knowlton and Porter Novelli, as well as independently advising high-profile clients on crisis management, media relations, and public affairs.

I see 0 expertise in medicine, clinical trials or other scientific work. That reduces these statements to agenda driven PR:

> “Our healthcare system is now solidly anti-children and anti-science,” Fatima Khan, co-founder of the Protect Their Future group, which advocates for vaccine access.

> “The data are clear: young children – especially infants – remain highly vulnerable to severe illness and hospitalization from Covid-19. By restricting access to safe, evidence-based vaccines, federal leaders are choosing ideology over science.”

nikolay•4h ago
People don't want mRNA vaccines - they want live vaccines. And they exist for COVID-19 abroad. Stop pushing to people what's cheaper and more convenient for pharmaceutical companies! Live vaccines develop a much better immunity as well! Give people a choice and stop putting health after profits!
acdha•37m ago
If people didn’t want them, Kennedy wouldn’t have had to prevent people from getting them. All of the attacks on scientists, experts being fired so they can be replaced with cranks, etc. happened because the preponderance of evidence shows mRNA vaccines are safe and effective, and would have been approved under science-based policies.
brianjking•53m ago
Thanks, I hate it here.

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