Under the control of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally terminating universal access to seasonal COVID-19 vaccines; instead, only people who are age 65 years and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk of severe COVID-19 will have access to seasonal boosters moving forward.
The move was laid out in a commentary article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Trump administration FDA Commissioner Martin Makary and the agency’s new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad.
The article lays out a new framework for approving seasonal COVID-19 vaccines, as well as a rationale for the change—which was made without input from independent advisory committees for the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Fascists aren’t about consistency for policy, merely consistency of power gathering. Hypocrisy or flipping positions is entirely part of the goal. If they’re able to flip positions, outright lie to your face, and do whatever they want it’s demonstrating that they’re higher up the power hierarchy (that they love to build) than you are. It’s all about building control over the public, and we’re seeing it in real time.