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Great news: newly updated fall COVID booster vaccine is not only •available to• but •recommended for• everyone ages six months and older. Everyone.

There was concern the CDC would only recommend it for the highest risk groups, but “[CDC committee] members strongly pushed back against this possibility.”

American Medical Association liaison: "There is no group that clearly has no risk from COVID."

arstechnica.com/health/2023/09

Ars TechnicaEveryone should get a COVID booster this fall, CDC saysNot everyone is at the same risk, but advisors called for simplicity and equity.

@inthehands I'm more afraid of a fucking car accident than this hype cold that we are all vaccinated against

Its a non story, we have the vaccines. Literally the only people who need to be concerned are the immuno compromised And I feel very sympathetic to them but lets be real thats like one percent of the population if not a bit less

Paul Cantrell

@FaceliftMcDarby
(You can append “and contradicted by extensive research” to the Luke gif here)

@inthehands We literally have vaccines against covid What part of that don't you understand. Its hardly any different now than a flu. The flu killed half a billion people in 1918. C'est La Vie. 1918 flu actually much more lethal than CV19 if we are being fair. Killed a quarter of the world