proposed restrictions on covid vaccines

[redbird]

The clowns running the FDA have proposed restricting access to covid vaccines, to people over 65 or who have certain medical conditions. There's a public docket for comments on the proposal.

Your Local Epidemiologist has a good post about the proposal, including that the people suggesting this know that nobody is going to do the placebo-controlled tests of new boosters they want to require.

Possible talking points include:

Families and caregivers wouldn't be eligible for the vaccine, even if they share a household, unlike the current UK recommendations.

Doctors, dentists, and other medical staff wouldn't be eligible either.

My own comment included that the reason I'd still be eligible for the vaccine is a lung problem caused by covid.

(cross-posting from thisfinecrew)

Comments

[otter]

I read the YLE post today too. Is this a time to be grateful for underlying conditions that qualify me and so many I know for the next vaccine?

[sabotabby]

brb screaming forever

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[minoanmiss]

aughghghg.

[sal_doesnt_rhyme]

oh this plus increased pediatric influenza fatalities this winter plus measles outbreaks reaching the vaccinated is why I'm masking everywhere

comrades in a long-covid support group chat are talking about ways to get around this if worst case it goes though - pharmacy-hopping to different places and using the right language / narrative for "I have such-and-such pre-existing condition" has helped many of them get around similar restrictions before <3