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Wait, people are still doing this? They’re still getting the mostly worthless Bat Flu Virus shot? One would think they’d realize it doesn’t help when they got the shot and boosters and then got COVID. Then a few more boosters and got COVID again

Getting a Covid shot this fall could be a lot more complicated

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.

You usually start hearing the radio and TV/streaming commercials about getting your Wuhan Flu vaccine at the same time as your flu shot around October or so: will they run the same ads? Ads that come from pharmacies, the jab makers themselves, and the government (NC govt runs them a lot).

At least 18 states and Washington, D.C., tie their pharmacists’ vaccination authority to the official recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose membership Kennedy overhauled in June to include several skeptics. The panel usually votes in June to recommend who should get the updated Covid shot in the fall, but months later there’s still not a firm date for the vote.

Without an official recommendation, pharmacists told POLITICO that residents of those jurisdictions may not be able to get vaccinated at neighborhood pharmacies, which have played the primary role in delivering the shots since early 2021. Nearly 90 percent of Covid vaccine doses during the 2024-2025 season nationally were given at pharmacies, according to CDC data.

How many actually get it these days? I think most rational thinking people realize that the shot, sadly, didn’t really work. They didn’t stop people from getting COVID, and that the whole “well, you might get it but it won’t be bad” talking point is mule fritters. And that there are lots and lots of side effects.

To restore accessibility, pharmacy groups are asking governors in the affected jurisdictions to sign executive orders to ensure pharmacists and pharmacy technicians may administer Covid vaccines, even if the CDC and its advisers haven’t officially recommended them. The states include Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, among others.

That’s their right. How many want to get it? How many will get it and get COVID again? Do most people really test anymore when they get sick? Have we learned to just live with it, and, if someone gets tested because they have a high fever just take the medicines? I think most have just moved on.