Your next doctor’s office could look a little different.On Tuesday, the Trump Administration announced that it will be limiting the approval of seasonal COVID-19 shots to high-risk individuals only, while they wait for more data.William Raszka is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Vermont Health Network. He says we already have the numbers, and people who want to get their next shot should be able to get one.”Roughly an equal number of people are dying from COVID and influenza. More than 30,000 a year,” said Raszka. “I remain perplexed by some of these things, but I’ve been around for a long time, so I’ve seen a lot of different approaches.”The Secretary of Health and Human Services is also pledging big changes to how certain vaccines are tested and approved.”If you want to get full approval for new vaccines for healthy people, you’re going to have a very …
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