🚨🇺🇸 U.S. VACCINE PANEL DROPS COVID JAB RECOMMENDATION FOR ADULTS
For the first time since 2020, America’s official vaccine advisors no longer recommend the Covid-19 shot for all adults.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to scrap broad guidance - even for high-risk groups like seniors - shifting instead to a “talk to your doctor” model.
They also rejected prescriptions for the vaccine.
This happens after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel in June and replaced them with handpicked allies.
The reversal follows earlier rollbacks: in May, the federal government stopped recommending the jab for healthy pregnant women and children.
The AMA says the sudden shifts - combined with confusion over measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccines and a delayed vote on hepatitis B - risk leaving both doctors and the public disoriented.
Critics call it politics over science. Supporters call it overdue caution.
Whatever the case, the U.S. just took its sharpest turn yet on Covid vaccine policy.
Source: BBC News
🇺🇸 U.S. GOVERNMENT: "COVID SHOTS? TOTALLY UP TO YOU NOW"
So, the government used to say “go get your COVID shot” every fall, like your annual flu shot.
Now, a new panel of vaccine advisers working with Sec. Kennedy just said... nah, it’s totally up to you.
Even old people and high-risk folks aren’t getting a strong “yes”, the panel voted not to officially recommend it to anyone.
Some experts say this will confuse people and make it harder to protect kids and seniors.
Meanwhile, insurers are like “don’t worry, we’re still covering the shots,” and health groups are telling folks to follow their own doctors instead of this wild new advice.
Source: Associated Press