But one expert insists the vaccine needs to be removed from the market completely.
The Food and Drug Administration now says that healthy younger adults and children should not be taking the Covid vaccine or boosters. The shots will still be made available to adults 65 and older and children with certain health problems that put them at higher risk of the disease.
The FDA framework, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthier people. It's a stark break from the previous federal policy recommending an annual COVID shot for all Americans six months and older. In the paper and a subsequent online webcast, the FDA's top vaccine official said more than 100 million Americans still should qualify for what he termed a booster under the new guidance, The Associated Press reported.
But Dr. Peter McCullough of the McCullough Foundation says the new regimen is still too aggressive.
“At this point in time, this change is long overdue. In fact, it lags the present data that indicates the COVID-19 vaccine should be removed from the market completely,” he said.
McCullough is scheduled to testify before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday afternoon about adverse events from the vaccine, including myocarditis, neurological disorders, blood clots and death.
“I plan to review the data on fatal COVID-19 vaccine reactions and make a compelling case that, in fact, the Trump administration has not gone far enough.”
The numbers are shocking and justify the removal of the vaccine, McCullough said, adding that six times as many Americans died from the vaccine than died from the actual virus.
“We're approaching 20,000 deaths reported to the U.S. CDC vaccine adverse event reporting system at a conservative underreporting factor of 30. That means 600,000 Americans have lost their lives due to the COVID-19 vaccine,” he said.
