Fda Approves Fall Covid Shots, But With New Restrictions

The Food and Drug Administration approved nan adjacent information of Covid shots for nan autumn — but only for a smaller, high-risk group of people, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday.

The updated Covid shots are approved for adults 65 and older arsenic good arsenic kids and adults pinch astatine slightest 1 aesculapian information that puts them astatine consequence of terrible illness.

Kennedy announced nan support in a station connected X.

“FDA has now issued trading authorization for those astatine higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+),” Kennedy wrote. “These vaccines are disposable for each patients who take them aft consulting pinch their doctors.”

The support is expected to spell to nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee, which will make a proposal connected who should beryllium capable to get nan shots.

The caller restrictions — which were expected — are apt to impact what insurers screen for group who don’t suffice for nan updated Covid shots.

Prior to this change, nan CDC recommended Covid shots for everyone 6 months and older.

A Covid changeable tin costs up to $140 without insurance, according to the CDC’s vaccine value list.

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