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Should a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had Covid-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine get vaccinated with the latest update of the vaccine? The question is asked in a New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Martin A. Makary, Trump’s commissioner of the FDA and Dr. Vinay Prasad, who was appointed by Makary as head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Their answer is that this is not known and that therefore they were removing the FDA’s recommendation that healthy individuals between 4 and 64 years of age receive the updated vaccine. They explain that removing the recommendation will compel manufacturers to conduct the studies that will determine whether this woman should take one of their vaccines, because without proof that they work for her, their sales will be limited because of lack of an FDA recommendation

This is terrible science and terrible public health policy. The CDC collected data from 6 hospitals from September 2024 to........

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