Notices by Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com), page 2

It's important to note that most people have a condition that increases the risk of becoming severely ill with Covid-19.

These include: asthma, diabetes, heart conditions, mental health conditions, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, and pregnancy.

Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions.

Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.

The data tells us that everyone can benefit from getting updated Covid vaccines.

Covid vaccines reduce the risk of becoming sick, developing Long Covid, and becoming hospitalized, for everyone.

Note: CDC lists many conditions that may make someone likelier to become severely ill with Covid-19, including older age, asthma, diabetes, lung disease, obesity and pregnancy.

By definition, most people are higher risk and should have access to Novavax.

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/clinical-care/underlying-conditions.html

The problem is that although the CDC lists many higher risk conditions, the FDA approval document is unclear about what qualifies as an underlying condition. This means many who should qualify may be wrongly turned away, and makes it less likely insurers will broadly cover Novavax.

Also, issuing vaccine access restrictions based on risk profile makes it confusing about who qualifies, and many people who would otherwise get the vaccine may not try because they think they don't qualify.

Novavax and other Covid-19 vaccines should be approved for everyone.

FDA approval of the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine approval was delayed by 6 weeks, a clear sign of political interference that does not bode well for future vaccine approvals.

Finally, the fact that the Trump administration delayed approval and restricted access to the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine — which is based on traditional vaccine technology — shows that questions raised about mRNA vaccines are disingenuous; they want to limit access to all vaccines.

Good news: The FDA finally approved the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine.

Bad news: There are new restrictions that will create lots of problems for people who want to get the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine.

The new stricter criteria limits Novavax to people:

1. aged 65 and over
2. aged 12 and up who have at least one underlying condition that puts them at higher risk of severe illness

This goes against the science that indicates that everyone can benefit from Covid-19 vaccination.

Weakening the EPA is not how you make America healthy.

Source: https://wapo.st/3S6lLPf

One of the best policies NYC has implemented in recent times

Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so.

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.

Within one decade of completion, it had already generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.

If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

The COVID vaccines have been taken by billions of people, saved millions of lives, and are some of the most rigorously tested medical products in history.

Someone who has zero experience in vaccine development should not be influencing the approval process. This will kill people.

Telling people to “do your own research” when in reality it means embracing disinformation from uncredentialed wellness grifters trying to peddle non-proven alternatives, and ignoring decades of rigorous peer-reviewed work from scientific experts, will kill people.

A new analysis by Stanford epidemiologists predicts that measles could become endemic again in the US in the next 20 years.

This would be a catastrophic failure and a result of anti-vax propaganda. Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease that was declared eliminated in the US in 2000.

They want you to be scared.

They want you to be silent.

They want you to feel alone.

Refuse. Hope is an act of defiance.

From the first #EarthDay: Students in St. Louis marched wearing masks to protest smog and air pollution.

The inaugural 1970 protests drew millions, and led to the creation of the EPA and clean air standards.

With science under greater attack than ever, we need more of this activism today!