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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've admittedly skipped the prior pages, so maybe someone has already made this post, and I'm 100% all in for vaccinations.

But we need to get to a point where covid vaccines are cyclical and routine like flu shots. This year the flu shot was released earlier, and the new covid booster was hard to come by. Our pediatrician offered many many flu clinics, but since they didn't have the new covid shot, it wasn't available. And for adults that are used to getting the flu shot in October, it required an extra appointment to get the new booster.

All to say, we did this, and fine, love to take over Walgreens with three crazy kids, but if you want uptake to be higher you have to make it easier.[/quote]

I think in the coming years it will be a lot easier, there was just a big change because the government was paying for all Covid vaccines and then we switched to our messed up healthcare system where some people get private insurance to cover it, some people have government funded insurance, and those without insurance are eligible for free vaccines this year. but because the system is all parsed out it’s harder to navigate.

[b]A huge reason the government is recommending everyone get it is so insure will have to pay for it.[/b] If they only make her recommendation that older people and say babies have to get it, like used to be the case with flu shot recommendations, insurer are not required to cover those vaccines. They wanted to make it widely available for people who would like to get the shot.

I agree that not everyone needs to get the shot if they don’t want it but I do think it should be available for healthy middle-age folks who just want the shot and insurance should cover it just like flu.

In other countries, it’s all run through the government, so that is why they didn’t give a blanket recommendation. 
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The CDC should make covid vaccine recommendations based on medical merit, not for the purpose of gaming insurance companies. The CDC's Advisory Cmte on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is composed of medical experts precisely so that they can assess and make vaccine recommendations from a medical perspective, not to figure out health care financing issues. The latter should be dealt with by policy/legislative officials. This is why people have lost confidence in CDC/official covid messaging.

You suggest that the CDC's broad recommendation is helpful to people without medical necessity so that they can get the covid shot free of charge. However, there are real negative consequences of this broad recommendation. Seventy colleges still mandate covid vaccines for young people who face almost no risk from covid but who are at the highest risk of vaccine side effects. The CDC's broad recommendation provides cover for these colleges to continue their mandates. Absent the CDC's broad recommendation, it would be hard for them to keep mandates in place. (Particularly troubling is that some of these colleges only mandate covid vaccines for low-risk students but not for higher-risk faculty or staff.) Every vaccine has side effects, the covid vaccine more than most; they should only be recommended for those individuals where the medical benefit exceeds the medical risks.

The CDC should make vaccine recommendations based on medical merit and let others figure out financing issues. And [b]they should not be asking PCPs to make broad covid vaccination recommendations that are motivated by optimizing insurance funding[/b] rather than individual health needs. Nearly every other nation in the world has concluded that covid vaccines should only be recommended for the vulnerable. The CDC should follow suit.[/quote]
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