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ATLANTA (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers added confusion Friday to this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations — declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.

Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine step in the fall for nearly all Americans — just like a yearly flu vaccine.

The Food and Drug Administration already had placed new restrictions on this year’s shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax, reserving them for people over 65 or younger ones who are deemed at higher risk from the virus.

In a series of votes Friday, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took the unprecedented step of not recommending them even for high-risk populations like seniors. Instead they decided people could make individual decisions after talking with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist.

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[–] darkmarx@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's how they've always woked; it's up to the individual. What would be great, and hear me out, what if there was a group of experts, scientists and doctors, who meet and discuss the scientific and medical merits of a vaccine based on the latest peer reviewed research, then make a recommendation to the general public on whether they should get it, based on risk factors such as age and lifestyle in order to help the general public make as informed of a decision as possible. Oh, wait...

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Dude, we should try that!

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good thing they don't believe in evolution either, or they would see the political Darwinism of geriatric MAGA voters not only being less likely to survive COVID, but also less likely to take any protective measures against it whatsoever.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

A geriatric empty husk of a human, being controlled by brain parasites

I wonder if personal choice extends to it being covered by medical insurance.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Funeral industry lobbyists' hard work is really paying off.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

They probably were making bank during covid

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm ok with being an individual choice personally, because I'm gonna go ahead and choose yes.

I had all of the shots I could get and I've never--to my knowledge--had that awful fucking thing, and I'd prefer to never.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

I just went through the Nimbus variant recently and that was intense, I think I would had more intense symptoms or long COVID if I wasn't vaccinated in May. One of my older bro has long COVID from not getting vaccinated this year. And some people I worked with think it doesn't exist anymore