Posted on 05/30/2025 11:26:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans, some health experts warn.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week that he was rescinding the federal government’s recommendation that pregnant women and healthy children get immunized against COVID, effective immediately.
Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, also said the agency will no longer routinely approve annually formulated COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy people under age 65.
“We simply don’t know whether a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had COVID-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will benefit from the seventh dose,” Makary, along with another FDA official, Dr. Vinay Prasad, wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine this month. “This policy will compel much-needed evidence generation.”
However, some experts say mandating more extensive testing could delay vaccine access for many, as those efforts may not even be complete until after the end of the upcoming winter flu-and-COVID season.
“Pregnant women, infants and young children are at higher risk of hospitalization from COVID, and the safety of the COVID vaccine has been widely demonstrated,” Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Diseases, said in a statement.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that, in general, getting an updated vaccine provides children and adults additional protection from COVID-related emergency room and urgent care visits.
The recent federal changes, according to some experts, could also prompt private insurance companies and government insurers to stop paying for...
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We don't need no stinking testing. We'll just test it on the peasants.
No summer colds any more? No summer allergies?
It seems all we get is covid and must have another new untested vaccination! I think we are being scammed.
Give it up, Rong-Gong!
The shots don’t work when millions of them were given and the world is still seeing variants spreading.
In the mind of TDS sufferers every story is about Trump.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
So now the ‘Rats are using germ warfare to try to start an epidemic they can blame on Trump?
I wondered if there were vaccine testing and adjusting the recipe during the last 5 years
The ones pushing for the vaccines probably never took the vaccine ,LOL
Experts confess that covid vaccines have caused all kinds of health problems, and even death while liberal media continue to spread the lie that it is ‘safe and effective’
“Rong-Gong Lin II”?!?
Probably VAIDS victims getting hit the most.
The newest Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines will probably advertise a staggering 50% more cancer packed into every dose.
Rong-Gong took up journalism after a failed career in Chinese music...
The answer is "NO"................
Covid apparently has killed off every other disease. 😉
His dad was a Chinese-trained doctor and II reportedly initially wanted to follow in those Hanfu boots, but after an internship at the Langley Bugle, he apparently was pulled in another direction.
By the time they develop avaccine for one variant, that variant has already faded and there’s a new variant and the vaccine is useless on the new variant
I’ve stayed well with no shots while everyone I know that got shots either died or caught “COVID”, whatever it is.
In what universal of mathematics or science is a seventh dose of anything within 5 years — that obviously isn’t preventing anything — going to do anything different from the first six? I don’t care about age, race, body type, or gender... it’s nuts to get behind... even if there were zero side-effects, which by now is most obviously not the case.
“A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly / Trump pivots away from vaccines”
This is an example of a Type K question.
Answers:
a) True - True
b) True - False
c) False - True
d) False - False
e) True, True and Unrelated
This question format was very popular in medical school back in the day, but like analogies on the SAT, it had to go to allow people with poor critical thinking skills to get through.
The answer to this question is “E”
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