The CDC is recommending that people over 65 get a second dose of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine. This is the same vaccine that was not clinically trialed.
The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for this vaccine in August to address the Omicron variant KP.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2. That variant is currently responsible for only 1% of Covid cases.
The FDA approval was based on testing in animals which, they said, showed the animals triggering trigger neutralizing antibodies. They do NOT say that the animals did or did not contract Covid or show Covid symptoms. Just the antibodies.
So why does the CDC think a first OR second dose of this vaccine will do anything? They don’t say. They say that data “continues to confirm the importance of vaccination” but they don’t say that it prevents Covid or severe Covid because they don’t know that. They just think it’s important.
