CDC Is Worried Making New COVID Vaccines Will Suggest to Americans That They Don’t Actually Work

Advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are concerned that rolling out annual COVID-19 vaccines, after already asking Americans to get three or more shots, might create the impression that the vaccines aren’t effective at all, according to a New York Times report.

The agency, along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is meeting next month to consider whether to roll out variant-specific COVID-19 shots for the fall, similar to what regulators and healthcare providers do for the flu every year. But the head of the CDC’s vaccine working group told the New York Times that one downside to pushing annual, variant-specific shots is that people will think they don’t work.

So, CDC is worried updating vaccines might "create an impression that we don’t have a very effective vaccination program".

Having vaccines available only for a long-extinct strain when we could easily update them would surely not be the answer here to fixing that "impression". pic.twitter.com/V1JfViekpt

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“Considering additional doses for a smaller and smaller return is creating an impression that we don’t have a very effective vaccination program,” said Dr. Matthew Daley, senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and head of the CDC’s vaccine working group.

Daley and other advisers warned that yet another national vaccination campaign could “needlessly exhaust” healthcare providers for minimal gain, according to the Times. They also worried that continually pushing Americans to get booster after booster and variant-specific shots could lessen the willingness of people to get another shot down the road, in the event a more dangerous variant emerges. (Read more from “CDC Is Worried Making New COVID Vaccines Will Suggest to Americans That They Don’t Actually Work” HERE)

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