This was submitted recently, but it didn't get any traction, and I think it's worthy of attention.

> The agency is limiting the updated shots to people who are at risk for serious complications because they are 65 or older or have other health problems. Until now, COVID vaccines had been available to anyone 6 months and older regardless of their health.

> The decision is expected to make it harder for many people, such as healthy children and healthy younger adults, to get a shot ahead of the expected winter COVID surge. That's already generating confusion and apprehension that harkens back to the early days of the pandemic, when people often had to frantically search for a shot.

> "These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors," Kennedy wrote, adding that the emergency use authorizations for the vaccines that made them available quickly during pandemic had been revoked.

Does this mean that if I want an updated booster for this year’s variants, I need to first get them prescribed by a doctor? I can’t just go seek them out on my own?

Incorrect title: ".... in the US" missing. No guarantee, maybe no possibility that such restrictions will be in non-US countries. Perhaps we'll just a whole lot of foreign trips, or (somehow) smuggling nasal or physical vaccines.

Fortunately, COVID doesn't seem as bad now, but if the MMR and other childhood vaccines, flu shots, shingles shots, ... End up with similar restrictions, people might not want that aspect of the 50's and 60's to return. Sterility, deafness, ... lots of possible effects from childhood diseases if they reappear en masse.