2w ago

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

www.statnews.com

Bonus points for Marty Makary (a surgeon with no particular experience in infectious disease) being the spokesperson for this. I wonder if he's the only licensed doctor they could find in the government willing to advocate for this policy?

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That's funny that's exactly the main demographic still getting COVID vaccines on the regular in the UK, you know, because they have weaker immune systems
Edit: I misread that they were limiting it for them and not to them. Which on reflection probably should have made me read again....
Everyone should be able to get one if they want
- This excludes people who care for those folks, who used to be able to get the vaccine so they didn't expose them. Because the protection isn't 100%
  
  Getting the COVID vaccine does make your chances of contracting it much lower, but not zero by any means. If you've been vaccinated and you still get it, the severity and length is lower. My father-in-law caught it a while back, was vaccinated, had to be hospitalized. If he hadn't been vaccinated, he may well have died.
  
  Agreed. That's why it's best practice to vaccinate the people caring for people like your FIL and my husband, so we have less chance of infecting them. (Either we don't catch it at all, or don't cough as much, over fewer days, and have a lower viral load to spread per cough.)

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