Thursday, August 28, 2025

FDA Restricts Access to COVID Vaccines for Healthy Adults and Kids — RFK Touts ‘science, safety, and common sense’; CDC Director Susan Monarez Departs Agency Less than a Month After Being Sworn In , and other C-Virus related stories

FDA restricts access to COVID vaccines for healthy adults and kids — RFK touts ‘science, safety, and common sense’:
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday restricted access to COVID-19 vaccines by ending their emergency authorization and refining eligibility standards to exclude most healthy adults and children.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a skeptic of vaccine safety, said in a statement that new policies were rooted in “science, safety, and common sense.”
Under the new rules, people over age 65 will remain eligible to get the vaccines, but younger adults and children will need to establish they have an underlying condition such as asthma or obesity that puts them at higher risk of serious illness.
That potentially eliminates access among broad swaths of the public — in a sharp break from the federal government’s shaming and firing of adults who refused to be vaccinated in 2021 and 2022.
Booster shots previously were easy to get and dispensed alongside the annual flu shot, which does not require the recipient to have elevated risk.
Kennedy, whose department includes the FDA, announced the news on X.
“I promised 4 things: 1. to end covid vaccine mandates. 2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies. 4. to end the emergency,” Kennedy wrote.
“In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished all four goals. The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded.
“FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+),” Kennedy went on.
“These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors. The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three.” --->READ MORE HERE
CDC director Susan Monarez departs agency less than a month after being sworn in:
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez has left the agency less than a month after being sworn in, a Trump administration official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Washington Post first reported Monarez was being ousted and on her way out earlier on Wednesday, citing multiple Trump administration officials familiar with the matter.
Neither the official nor the Post cited a reason for her departure from the agency. Citing several anonymous CDC employees, the newspaper reported that Monarez on Friday canceled an agency-wide call that had been scheduled for Monday.
The US Department of Health and Human Services and the White House did not immediately provide comment.
Monarez, a federal government scientist, was confirmed by the US Senate on July 29 to lead the CDC after President Donald Trump nominated her earlier in the year. She was sworn in by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on July 31.
Her departure from the agency follows a shooting at the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier in the month.
Monarez was the Trump administration’s second nominee for the role. In March, the president withdrew his nomination of former Republican congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon, a Kennedy ally, just hours before his scheduled confirmation hearing. --->READ MORE HERE
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