Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?
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The millions of Americans who are used to getting their Covid-19 vaccines at a local pharmacy may face new hurdles this fall depending on where they live and whether federal health officials have decided they qualify.
Pharmacists’ authority to vaccinate individuals varies across state lines. In some places, it’s dependent upon a federal advisory process that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended.
At the same time, the Food and Drug Administration has signaled that it will only approve updated Covid vaccines for individuals 65 and older and for younger people considered to be at high risk for severe disease. People, regardless of where they live, may need to prove that they need the shot.
The agency is expected to sign off on the new vaccine formulas and labels any day now. The action will halt administration of the current vaccines, which are approved for most adults and children, regardless of underlying conditions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/covid-shot-hhs-recommendations-fall-00519315
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https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/acog-endorses-covid-19-vaccination-during-pregnancy-despite-cdc-changes/
ACOG refuses to follow the new (Kennedy mandated) CDC guidelines on vaccination. Kennedy threatens "liability" against doctors who follow their professional society's guidelines over the CDC's politicized rules.
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@Daniel. said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
Will I be able to and would I are two different questions.
Do you have an answer for either?
Sometime in the next week or three, I plan to stop by a local pharmacy to find out what I may be eligible for.
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@Daniel. said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
Will I be able to and would I are two different questions.
Do you have an answer for either?
Sometime in the next week or three, I plan to stop by a local pharmacy to find out what I may be eligible for.
@Axtremus said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
Sometime in the next week or three, I plan to stop by a local pharmacy to find out what I may be eligible for.
I was thinking to do the same.
I also had thought that if I wasn't immediately eligible, i might ask my provider for a prescription, but i would hate for that to get her in trouble.
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@Daniel. said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
Will I be able to and would I are two different questions.
Do you have an answer for either?
Sometime in the next week or three, I plan to stop by a local pharmacy to find out what I may be eligible for.
@Axtremus - I assume you want the most up-to-date version of the vaccine, so be sure to keep an eye on the FDA news so that you know when they have approved this year's formula and that's what the pharmacy is giving you.
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I've had a number of boosters and last Dr. visits for myself and MrsTuner, neither doc recommended getting any more at this point until possibly combined with a flu shot.
Reason? They just aren't seeing data that suggests that outcomes are different with getting boosters or not. With and without boosters people get infected and stay out of the hospital. Just two opinions in an urban setting...
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I've had a number of boosters and last Dr. visits for myself and MrsTuner, neither doc recommended getting any more at this point until possibly combined with a flu shot.
Reason? They just aren't seeing data that suggests that outcomes are different with getting boosters or not. With and without boosters people get infected and stay out of the hospital. Just two opinions in an urban setting...
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On a related note....
US health secretary and vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move for a US public official. Aluminium has been used for almost a century to enhance the immune system’s response to some vaccines. But some people claim the ingredient is linked to rising rates of childhood disorders such as autism.
Public-health officials in Kennedy’s position rarely request that studies be retracted, says Ivan Oransky, a specialist in academic publishing and co-founder of the media organization Retraction Watch. Through this request, “Secretary Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky.
The study1 in question, published in Annals of Internal Medicine in July, is one of the largest of its kind, looking at 1.2 million children born over more than two decades in Denmark. The authors reported that no significant risk of developing autoimmune, allergic or neurodevelopmental disorders was associated with exposure to aluminium compounds in vaccines.
In an opinion piece published on TrialSite News on 1 August, Kennedy called into question the study’s methodology, analysis and results. Since his appointment as head of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy has bypassed normal scientific review processes to change vaccine recommendations and terminated grants for projects on mRNA vaccines.
Annals of Internal Medicine says it stands by the study and has no plans to retract it. Christine Laine, editor in chief for the journal, wrote in a comment on the study’s web page on 11 August that “retraction is warranted only when serious errors invalidate findings or there is documented scientific misconduct, neither of which occurred here”.
From Nature:
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@Daniel. said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
Will I be able to and would I are two different questions.
Do you have an answer for either?
Sometime in the next week or three, I plan to stop by a local pharmacy to find out what I may be eligible for.
@Axtremus said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
@Daniel. said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
Will I be able to and would I are two different questions.
Do you have an answer for either?
Sometime in the next week or three, I plan to stop by a local pharmacy to find out what I may be eligible for.
I have an answer for one. I no longer take mRNA vaccines.
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@wtg and @Rontuner hmmm, this make sense. OTOH, since I am surrounded by people due to work, I wonder… I think I need to have a discussion with a provider, but my next visit isn’t until Nov. (not counting my ortho.)
This is why the current situation is so frustrating. I would like to be able to get vaccine advice without politics getting in the way.
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I didn’t take one last year because I got Covid again in September so I skipped it when they came out. My intention was to get it a few months later but I forgot. This year I’ll be sure to get one if only as a FU to Kennedy. My immunosupressed status will get me on the list.
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I can get it under the geezer exception. But the idea that some worm -eaten science denier is making these decisions makes me want to scream.
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@wtg and @Rontuner hmmm, this make sense. OTOH, since I am surrounded by people due to work, I wonder… I think I need to have a discussion with a provider, but my next visit isn’t until Nov. (not counting my ortho.)
This is why the current situation is so frustrating. I would like to be able to get vaccine advice without politics getting in the way.
@ShiroKuro said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:
@wtg and @Rontuner hmmm, this make sense. OTOH, since I am surrounded by people due to work, I wonder… I think I need to have a discussion with a provider, but my next visit isn’t until Nov. (not counting my ortho.)
This is why the current situation is so frustrating. I would like to be able to get vaccine advice without politics getting in the way.
Do you have an online connection to your provider? I've found that messaging mine usually gets a pretty quick response (through MyChart)
