New Regulatory Rules for COVID-19 Vaccines and Implications for the Public and for the Health of Low-Risk Americans

For many Americans, we don’t know if they should get a seventh, eighth, ninth, or 10th COVID-19 booster.

The rate of covid hospitalizations was 71.2 per 100,000 people during the period from May of last year to June of this year according to the CDC. Vaccines can be a lifesaver for people with a weakened immune system. There are questions as to whether people considered healthy will be able to get a vaccine if they want to protect someone who is at greater risk.

The new vaccine approval process for people ages 65 and older and younger who have health problems that putting them at high risk was reported Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The FDA now requires vaccine manufacturers to conduct more large studies to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine for children.

We launched a multi-year campaign of distrust of the American public. The FDA does not have gold-standard science that can support this for average-risk, low-risk Americans.

The federal health officials say the steps will bring the U.S. in line with the approach that other high-income countries take towards the vaccines and are necessary to restore trust in the vaccines.

In the article, the FDA said that less than 25 percent of people in the US get the shot each year. It says public trust in vaccination has declined, and there may be a ripple effect.

“Secretary Kennedy had made it clear that he would never take vaccines away from anyone,”  Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said in an interview with NPR, referring to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the FDA. If insurance companies won’t cover the vaccine, many people will not be able to afford it.

But critics say the new requirements bypass the usual input from independent outside advisers and are unnecessary given the overwhelming evidence that COVID vaccines are safe and effective.

The regulatory move is seen as sending a misleading message that the vaccines have not been adequately evaluated and that it is going to limit the availability of the vaccines because insurers are going to stop paying for them.

Others also note that the new approach doesn’t take other issues into account, such as the fact that even younger, healthier people can get long COVID and that immunization can reduce that risk.

Others at low risk themselves may want to get vaccinated to protect other people, such as older family members and those with weak immune systems, Hotez says.

Many experts also argue that it would be unethical to perform a clinical study that involves giving some people a placebo instead of a vaccine, given that the virus can be a major threat to anyone and COVID vaccines have been shown to be effective.

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“The only thing that can come of this will make vaccines less insurable and less available,” Paul Offit, a vaccine scientist, virologist, and professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told The Associated Press.

We don’t know if a healthy woman who has gotten six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine will benefit from a seventh dose.

According to Offit, the CDC studies show that getting a booster can help prevent mild to moderate cases of STDs for six months after getting the shot. And even if someone does get sick, being vaccinated can make the illness shorter and less severe and reduce the risk of developing long covid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Peter Marks, former director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) that regulates vaccines, wrote in a resignation letter in March.