A new Covid vaccine is expected soon. Here's the best time to get it.

nbcnews ^ | 08/21/2024 | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Akshay Syal, M.D.

[ChicagoConservative27]

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the new Covid vaccine as early as Thursday, according to two sources familiar with the agency’s planning.

It’s the third time the vaccines have been updated to match circulating strains since the original series. The shots should be available within days.

The FDA and HHS declined to comment on the expected update.

The timing of the new vaccines — last year's rollout was in mid-September — is significant, since most of the U.S. is still caught in the summer wave of Covid illness. As of Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of people testing positive for Covid keeps rising and that emergency room visits for Covid have been increasing since mid-May. Hospitalizations are rising, too.

Here’s what to know about the updated vaccines.

[BEJ]

When is a good time? NEVER!

[wgmalabama]

Agreed. Display the $ the “servants” are making to kill you.

[jonrick46]

Wouldn’t it be bazaar if the new variant causes men to become more virulent and desirable to women. The government would not want that to happen and would really be clutching at pearls.

[Joachim]

Now that the “approval” is official (https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-and-authorizes-updated-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-better-protect-against-currently) we can see that, as before, the “approval” is for 12 and up — while injections for ages 6 months through 11 years are only “authorized”, that is, available under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).

There’s still a Covid emergency, apparently . . . so please vaccinate your babies!

(It’s an emergency, after all.)

But why is an emergency-authorized vaccine on the official CDC schedule for routine childhood administration? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html

The emergency is “scheduled” to continue, I guess?

Just asking questions, as they say.

[iluvschnitzle]

No thanks

[Baldwin77]

NEVER is the best time.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

If the COVID shots are so safe, then why have over 80% of NHS employees refused to take another booster? Former UK MP Andrew Bridgen just told me that over 80% of the NHS employees won't take any more shots. I asked several AI models what this means.