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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In fall 2023, a major reason why the CDC's APIC made an all-age covid booster recommendation was due to equity considerations. In order for insurance to cover boosters, APIC has to recommend them. APIC wanted to ensure that anyone who wanted a booster could get one, which an all-age recommendation achieves. [b]A desire to game insurance companies is a poor reason to make all-age covid booster recommendations.
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https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-09-11/should-you-get-the-new-covid-booster-the-cdc-is-about-to-decide
"A small percentage of Americans got the most recent COVID-19 booster shot, and even fewer probably realize the federal government is preparing to recommend yet another shot as early as Tuesday. Until a week or two ago, Dr. William Schaffner read that indifference as a sign the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should advocate vaccinating only those most at risk from the virus. But then Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, changed his mind. Members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices won him over to the argument that the vaccine be recommended for all Americans above 6 months of age ...

Some of Schaffner’s scientific colleagues argue the government should be recommending the shot only for frail, older, sick and immunocompromised people. Over 95% of the U.S. population has some immunity to COVID-19 through vaccination, infection or both, and the risks of serious illness for healthy younger people are not great. Schaffner doesn’t disagree. But lots of not-necessarily-vulnerable Americans do want the shot for themselves and their children, and, without a CDC recommendation, insurance companies wouldn’t have to pay for the vaccine. ..."The last thing we need are financial barriers that would enhance disparities,” Schaffner said."[/quote]

This is key. Note that the same applies in European countries, and yet they don't make a blanket recommendation. If the CDC recommended it to people of all ages who have co-morbidities that make them high-risk, they could also achieve the "equity" goal of making sure that everyone who needs it gets it. Opening it up to everybody who just wants it for no good reason is a gift to Pfizer.[/quote]

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