{"id":94019,"date":"2025-05-20T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=8e89655dff52b86c7d8fd2288d4605ae"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:18:21","slug":"under-rfk-jr-covid-shots-will-only-be-available-to-people-65-high-risk-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=94019","title":{"rendered":"Under RFK Jr., COVID shots will only be available to people 65+, high-risk groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2025\/05\/under-anti-vaccine-advocate-rfk-jr-fda-to-limit-access-to-covid-19-shots\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Fuck.  Gonna make schools a shit show in the fall if their bullshit holds.<\/div><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The move was laid out in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMsb2506929\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a commentary article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>, written by Trump administration FDA Commissioner Martin Makary&nbsp;and the agency's new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad.<\/p>\n<p>The article lays out a new framework for approving seasonal COVID-19 vaccines, as well as a rationale for the change&mdash;which was made without input from independent advisory committees for the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2025\/05\/under-anti-vaccine-advocate-rfk-jr-fda-to-limit-access-to-covid-19-shots\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2025\/05\/under-anti-vaccine-advocate-rfk-jr-fda-to-limit-access-to-covid-19-shots\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the control of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the F&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=94019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}