Horowitz: Beware: The FDA is not retreating on the COVID jabs. It is reloading. t.co/L7QneDgwID
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Some of you might have jumped with elation on Tuesday after hearing the news that the FDA had de-authorized the original series of COVID shots. What the agency is really doing, however, is reloading so it can enshrine the shots into the permanent immunization schedule and mix them with an ever-growing list of respiratory viral vaccines they are rolling out over the coming months. Now is the time for Congress to step on the gas pedal in opposing these shots, not tabling the issue as if it’s over.
The FDA and CDC had a problem. There was no way to continue marketing the shots any longer as an imminent and urgent need for an ongoing pandemic. After all, even the president has said the pandemic is over. Were they to continue packaging the shots as a continual series for protection against the pandemic, they’d be left with fewer than 1% of the public getting them. So rather than simply canceling them, as Switzerland and other countries are doing, the FDA pulled a bait-and-switch. Officials de-authorized the original series of shots to signal the pandemic is over. But now they have established a system that will allow them to enshrine the newer bivalent shot or some future version, perhaps mixed with flu and RSV, as an annual single shot.
Why is this so significant? With the public already groomed into thinking they need an annual flu shot, officials now hope to treat COVID like the flu shot. Everyone who walks into a pharmacy, especially in the late summer, will be asked if they are up on their flu shot or up on their COVID shots. Likewise, every time one visits his primary care doctor, he will pull up the schedule and pressure the patient to be up on his immunizations. Most people don’t want to be regarded as dirty, disease-ridden bad boys and will comply. This way, getting the COVID shots is no longer an urgent and temporary fear-driven decision, which would no longer resonate now that the fear has dissipated. Instead, it will be part of the annual shot series until the end of times.
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