Last month, the FDA approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but this time with new restrictions, limiting the shots to anyone with underlying health conditions or adults 65 and older.
Until that point, the shot was recommended for anyone 6 months and older.
What weve been seeing is a shift in the recommendations, said Dr. Jill Roberts, a professor at the USF College of Public Health.
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Roberts disagrees with the FDAs guidance.
From a scientific standpoint, this makes no sense. The science did not change. The risks did not change. All this does is make the vaccine more difficult to actually get, said Roberts.
The FDAs limited recommendation caused some to panic over vaccine availability for anyone who