r/publichealth • u/GeologistBrave6866 • 4d ago

NEWS FDA Approves Updated Covid Vaccines With New Restrictions (Gift Article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/health/fda-covid-vaccines-rfk-jr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU8.6yH0.Gn_6VUEr6RpO&smid=url-share

Ugh.

In a social media post, Mr. Kennedy said the approvals accomplished the goals of keeping vaccines available to people who want them and of demanding that companies conduct placebo-controlled trials. One new, required study would examine “post-Covid-19 vaccination syndrome” in patients, a condition that has been noted in at least one small preliminary medical report, but is still a matter of pitched debate.

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u/bd2999 4d ago

Hearing Kennedy claim science, safety and common sense is a joke. He does none of them. I would love to see the information that backs up the claim. As there have been minor issues with the COVID vaccines but they have worked quite well by and large. And they are very.

Common sense indicates that if science and safety agree than you should offer it. He is the opposite of common sense. The goal is to chip away at vaccines in general.

In a year or two I imagine they will start banning or reducing access to all vaccines. To the point that they cost more and it is all a choice because none of them are 100% safe in the view of very biased panels.

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u/Potential-Scholar359 4d ago

I’m still trying to figure out why they want to eliminate vaccines. Like kids getting polio and dying of measles is a good thing to them? Make it make sense!

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u/bd2999 3d ago

The only thing I have figured, after longer than I care to mention of following the anti-vaxx and natural movements, is that they really believe that the vaccines cause more harm than they help. The reasons are varied, either because they cut into parental freedom or are a risk but their claim is that vaccines cause all sorts of side effects that are hidden because there is too much money in it.

Some of them deny that germs cause disease at all (sadly a seemingly growing movement), that vaccines cause autism or autoimmune disease etc. and they think all medicine is at the feet of big pharma.

Never mind that vaccines really do not make that much money compared to other treatments and so on. But that is how they see it. And the threshold they have is impossible to meet and ever changing. A vaccine must be 100% effective and 100% safe and even then trials must always use a placebo (ethics be damned if there already is a vaccine to save people) and safety trials must go on indefinitely before used.

It is goal post moving. It is illogical and does not make a whole lot of sense but that is the only logic I can make of it. They also downplay the impact of vaccines, like hygiene played more of a role in the decrease in polio. Why they think hygine changed so much and was the only factor makes no sense.

Alot of it is echo chamber with legit fears but it becomes a problem when they are not willing to see evidence or data that shows the opposite. As to them it is part of the conspiracy.

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u/Potential-Scholar359 3d ago

Thanks. It’s either what you said or it’s secret reverse psychology extreme environmentalism where they think the only way to save the planet is to kill is all. 🤷🏻‍♀️