Y’all, once again, this man is giving me fits. His blatant lack of belief in vaccines just pisses me off in a major fashion. We know why he’s my second favorite topic, soon to be my first with Elon leaving. Now, the following information came from the FDA, but we know who the man is lurking in the shadows. From CNN:
The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes to how Covid-19 vaccines are approved and the groups they are recommended for.
For the past few years, the federal government has broadly approved and recommended an updated Covid-19 shot for everyone ages 6 months and up each fall.
But last week, leaders from the US Food and Drug Administration outlined a new framework for the approval process for Covid-19 vaccines that could limit shots to older Americans and people at higher risk of serious Covid-19 infection. On Tuesday, Kennedy announced that the vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule.
Not among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women. Ugh. I would think they *needed* to stay up to date. Imagine getting Covid while you’re pregnant. No, no, NO. I can kinda understand healthy children BUT you never know what’s lurking in the background. Then we have even more restrictions. I’m not 65 yet so I’ll have to fight to get it. I will be that age in a year and a half, but *now*? Nope. My younger-than-me *husband* can, but I can’t.
Under the framework outlined by FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the new director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, updated Covid-19 vaccines will probably be approved for everyone 65 and older and for people 6 months and older who have at least one underlying condition that puts them at “high risk for severe Covid-19 outcomes.”
The CDC lists dozens of conditions that may contribute to higher Covid-19 risk, including asthma, cancer, diabetes, obesity and a history of smoking. These underlying conditions will make between 100 million and 200 million people in the US eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine under the new framework, the FDA leaders estimate.
Pregnancy is included on the list of factors that the CDC says have shown “a conclusive increase in risk” for at least one severe Covid-19 outcome. Kennedy did not offer a specific reason behind the decision to stop recommending the Covid-19 for pregnant people in Tuesday’s announcement, but the move appears to directly contradict the new framework outlined a week earlier.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can’t make up his mind. Once again he proves that in no way is he suitable for the position he holds. Yay. Anti-vaxxer. He ought not be there. Let him go back to his preachy public persona from before he became head of HHS. Anything, just get him out of the door!
In a video posted on social media on Tuesday, Kennedy said that changes to the recommendations for children and pregnant people took effect that same day. As of Thursday morning, however, the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule posted online had not changed.
An independent group of advisers to the CDC – the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP – is expected meet at the end of June to vote on Covid-19 vaccine recommendations, and they had already been weighing options for more targeted risk-based recommendations than the general guidelines issued in previous years.
The CDC’s independent vaccine advisers are expected to vote on this fall’s Covid-19 vaccine recommendations. Their decisions have guided vaccine policy in the US for decades, but it’s unclear how much influence it will have over the newly announced changes. HHS still hasn’t signed off on two of the three recommendations that were made at the group’s last meeting, in April.
Okay, that’s *really* not helpful. RFK Jr .is playing fast and loose with people’s *lives”, just like he did with measles, which still has the chance to turn into a epidemic. Did you know an adult died, as well as the 2 children? It’s interesting that this one didn’t make the news AT ALL. I only found out at my yearly physical last week, because the doc and I had to have a discussion about it. I may need to get the updated vaccine. Good times! To close, one more quote:
These changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy limit opportunities to protect people who are at high risk, including young children and pregnant people, experts say
“We have vaccines that we know were critical in saving lives during the pandemic and we continue to see the morbidity and mortality from Covid-19,” Fiscus said. “It’s very concerning that people who would choose to protect themselves or their children with a vaccine may have that choice taken away.”
WHAM. Bingo. How many other vaccines are being restricted in the background? We don’t know. That’s … unsettling. I have everything I need to be up to date, I think. So does my husband, at least *that we know of*. Would someone please grab the shepherd’s crook and pull RFK Jr. off the stage? (Bonus points if you know what that’s from, ha.) Again, we need someone who has the experience and knowledge to run HHS *safely*. It’s a pity we aren’t going to get it, at least until the end of tRump’s 4 years. If he didn’t fire Mike Waltz, he’s not going to fire this man. Ouch. Thanks for sticking with me!
