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A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 30, 2025 3 AM PT | Rong-Gong Lin II

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid19; covid1984; fakenews; losangelesslimes; ronggonglinii; tds
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wish every time they lied their nose grew or their skin turned blue


21 posted on 05/30/2025 12:14:30 PM PDT by dkGba
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To: Bulwinkle
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

Sounds like a billion dollar game of pharmaceutical wack-a-mole.

Question: Should we inject experimental substances into human subjects in the hope that maybe the "variant" it is for is still around and that it actually works, unlike the COVID-1984 experimental substance?

22 posted on 05/30/2025 12:15:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

if dems keep infecting people, whatever the new virus is will continue to spread

not a shocker


23 posted on 05/30/2025 12:30:19 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mask up everyone! Now! Put your mask on if you walk outside ok? We’re all gonna die! /s


24 posted on 05/30/2025 12:30:36 PM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: SaxxonWoods

My MD told me I was too healthy to need a vax.

A good friend had every possible Moderna vax, then got covid 4 times, once quite seriously. I shopped for her groceries and left them at her door. Wonder what she’ll do about this “threat”.


25 posted on 05/30/2025 12:49:42 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Someone needs to tell them that 95% of Americans are NOT going to fall for this again...


26 posted on 05/30/2025 12:53:30 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Gary from Dayton

Have Gavin and Nanc resolve the issues.


27 posted on 05/30/2025 12:54:05 PM PDT by chopperk (airhigeroi)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If it is a subvariant, it is my understanding that the current vaccines are likely to be at least partially ineffective. That however is no excuse to rush out a vaccine for this subvariant. Those at high risk will need to decide if they believe the current vaccines will offer enough of the protection they want or if other methods to avoid the virus or minimize its impact is a better choice.


28 posted on 05/30/2025 1:04:38 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: butlerweave

You don’t see any mention of Vaxx bad side effects in Congressmen. With 535 of them that is a statistical anomaly. I think.


29 posted on 05/30/2025 1:07:06 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe ('!'?)
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To: Bob434

“”””Experts confess that covid vaccines have caused all kinds of health problems,”””

My wifes oncologist said she has been dealing with a lot of serious side effects on her patients from the clot shot.


30 posted on 05/30/2025 1:11:38 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Veto!

I have multiple friends who got shots and COVID multiple times. One relative died of turbo cancer, 5 operations in one month, they couldn’t keep up with the speed of the tumors. She had a small melanoma on her arm 20 years prior and had tested clean ever since, until suddenly after vaccination and 2 boosters....


31 posted on 05/30/2025 1:22:49 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I won’t be asking for any more vaccines for a while so don’t worry someone else can have mine. You’re welcome.


32 posted on 05/30/2025 1:24:56 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens. And only full words. )
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To: lastchance

High risk of what? Covid vaccines do not prevent transmission. They do not prevent acquisition. They do not lessen the severity of infection. If you are at “high risk” of catching covid, it doesn’t matter how many vaccines you get you will still get covid. High risk low risk no risk is all the same outcome. Either you get covid or you don’t. It’s your immune system that determines how you react physiologically. Even though covid vaccines are supposed to teach your immune system how to react the infection still gets to the lungs and multiplies well before any immune response can occur.


33 posted on 05/30/2025 1:30:40 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens. And only full words. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rong-Gong Lin thinks these vaccines work.


34 posted on 05/30/2025 2:00:37 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

On this day at 3 am, the Pfizer check to Rong-Gong Lin II cleared.


35 posted on 05/30/2025 2:09:41 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The variants came from one of two places. New lab releases or from the vaccines.


36 posted on 05/30/2025 2:20:10 PM PDT by Revel
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To: erkelly

My wife and I are in our mid 80’s and like most of our friends we are having our yearly allergy season.

No Covid shots for any of us.


37 posted on 05/30/2025 2:39:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches us anything! (outofsalt))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anyone who got jabbed six times, covid three times, and is condidering a seventh shot, has very poor pattern recognition abilities.


38 posted on 05/30/2025 2:44:28 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant

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Remember in the good old days when we used to call this a cold ?

Spit.


39 posted on 05/30/2025 2:54:00 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: All

quick, raise taxes..


40 posted on 05/30/2025 2:56:36 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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