programming.dev
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
KingPorkChop@lemmy.caM to Fuck The USA@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago

Trump officials say yearly COVID shots will no longer be approved for healthy adults and children

www.pbs.org

external-link
message-square
32
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
199
external-link

Trump officials say yearly COVID shots will no longer be approved for healthy adults and children

www.pbs.org

KingPorkChop@lemmy.caM to Fuck The USA@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago
message-square
32
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
The FDA said Tuesday annual COVID shots will still be regularly approved for seniors and younger people with increased health risks from the virus.
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    11 hours ago

    There goes one of the two things he did right. What next? Bringing back the ha’penny?

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    67
    ·
    2 days ago

    They want us sick, dying, and dead.

    • xzot746@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      2 days ago

      Yeah and not so smart, oh and hate your neighbors especially if they have a different skin color, religion, money etc.

      Just don’t pay any attention to anything else.

  • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    2 days ago

    Hopefully Canada will help us sane people trapped behind enemy lines

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      2 days ago

      Time to open up a clinic right on the border!

      Actually a vaccination clinic should be put in that library that straddles the border. That would be pretty neat.

      • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 days ago

        I generally cross at Derby Line. So sad to see that bs happening there.

  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    2 days ago

    Shut up and eat yer horse paste. /s

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.

    Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for yearly updates to COVID shots, saying they’d continue to use a streamlined approach that would make vaccines available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one health problem that puts them at higher risk.

    …

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    Joke’s on them, we’re a bunch of heavy-breathing girthybois

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, guess I need to hover around obesity weight and down a liter of water before my yearly checkup.

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    32
    ·
    2 days ago

    The vast majority of people under 65 years of age are not at risk of becoming severely ill.

    • Triasha@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      10 hours ago

      Long COVID has caused millions of people to suffer. Is the cost of a vaccine too high for that?

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 hours ago

        Yes, vaccination definitely helps reduce long covid but boosters don’t seem to have a significant effect.

        (Those links are a few years old, maybe more recent data shows a stronger long covid risk reduction from boosters)

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 day ago

      What’s your point?

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        1 day ago

        This is a common policy around the world. Not specifically brain worm induced.

    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      ·
      2 days ago

      Vaccines are not just about individual health. Smh.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        18
        ·
        2 days ago

        That is true for perfect vaccines (like measles) where mutation is low and transmission is halted.

        • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          10 hours ago

          Theres no such thing as perfect vaccines. They all rely on your immune system to do the work. Vaccines just show it what to search for. It is litterally giving your immune system an advantage for very little risk. The earlier your immune system reacts, the less chance for the virus to propagate.

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            8 hours ago

            Perfect vaccines are also called “all-or-none” vaccines. They reduce infection rates to zero (for a given % subjects).

            There are also imperfect/leaky vaccines.

        • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          1 day ago

          What tiktok idiot did you get that gem from?

          EVERY case prevented stops a transmission; that’s a tautology. EVERY case prevented is one less chance to mutate.

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            1 day ago

            Not every vaccine is fully preventative. But most that require only one dose (like measles) are.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          Oh how interesting. What school did you get your PhD/MD from?

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            1 day ago

            The school that beat your debate team.

            Are you arguing against vaccination for measles? Because I’m not.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          Yes transmissions of measles is halted.

          https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-in-southwestern-ontario-hospitals-prepare-for-prospect-of-worst-case/

          https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/22/texas-lubbock-measles-parents/

          https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/measles-cases-rise-nationally-make-sure-you-are-vaccinated

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            1 day ago

            Agreed.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      2 days ago

      Tell that to my father-in-law who came hours away from dying, and myself who had blood counts so low, they thought I was dying from cancer.

      The current strain may not be as deadly, but the next version could absolutely be worse. This removes the ability protect against those changes in the future.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        12
        ·
        2 days ago

        That was the Danish health system telling it. Doctors there can still prescribe covid vaccines for at risk under 65s.

        • Triasha@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          10 hours ago

          Look at moneybags over here with their general practicioner.

        • Gerudo@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 days ago

          The point is, we weren’t/aren’t considered high risk.

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            1 day ago

            My point is that the Trump administration’s position on covid and influenza vaccines isn’t any different from the Danish position.

            Unless you have some underlying health problem, you aren’t at risk. (Although I suspect this assumes previous exposure or vaccination).

            • Gerudo@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 day ago

              I think you’re missing my point. My father-in-law and myself are far from high risk, yet he was hours from death in the hospital, and I was on my way there. Us being vaccinated likely saved our lives. If this policy was inacted back then, we would not have been given the vaccine, and likely both died.

              It doesn’t matter who’s policy it is, it’s a fucked up one to tell their citizens that you can’t take precautions to potentially save your own life.

              • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 day ago

                Statistically you and your father in law are not at risk, but I see your point that the option to choose to have a booster should not be removed.

Fuck The USA@lemmy.ca

FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 71 users / day
  • 888 users / week
  • 1.19K users / month
  • 1.57K users / 6 months
  • 3 local subscribers
  • 188 subscribers
  • 48 Posts
  • 232 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org