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  1. ahimsa

    ahimsa Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    NPR (National Public Radio) now has a story on this:

    A stricter FDA policy for COVID vaccines could limit future access
     
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  2. shak8

    shak8 Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    The FDA officials responsible for the pronouncement wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929) that adults with the CDC risk factors of a poorer outcome would qualify for the next covid vaccine.

    This CDC list (link in above article) includes depression and other mental illnesses, and obesity (BMI over 30--which probably includes 40 percent of US adults, smoking or former smoking, among a list of other factors.

    Also, physical inactivity is considered a risk factor on the list. So....
     
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