As access to Covid -19 vaccines has become increasingly restricted over the past few months, there has been mounting concern over whether it would be possible for the Trump administration to go one step further and ban the shots altogether.
These fears were stoked following an Aug. 25 article in The Daily Beast , in which British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra — chief medical advisor at the Make America Healthy Again Action organization, and ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert J. Kennedy Jr. — said that the Trump administration will pull the Covid vaccines off the U.S. market “within months.” Although the article was largely dismissed as a baseless rumor, it reinforced the idea that the jabs could soon no longer be available to those who wanted them. And