{"id":90779,"date":"2025-05-20T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90779"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:20:54","slug":"wapo-confusing-reporting-on-fda-vs-cdc-approval-of-covid-vaccine-for-low-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90779","title":{"rendered":"WaPo confusing reporting on FDA vs CDC &#8220;approval&#8221; of COVID vaccine for low risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/05\/20\/covid-vaccine-elderly-high-risk-fda\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/05\/20\/covid-vaccine-elderly-high-risk-fda\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reporting is confusing because it doesn&#8217;t describe what is meant by &#8220;approval&#8221;. I suspect it&#8217;s about whether &#8220;insurance companies are required to cover the cost of the shots with no out-of-pocket charges to consumers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is limited benefit to current COVID vaccines for lower-risk people so this would be a cost consideration even if the CDC\/FDA were not being run by lunatics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/05\/20\/covid-vaccine-elderly-high-risk-fda\/ The reporting is confusing because it doesn&#8217;t describe what is meant by &#8220;approval&#8221;. I suspect it&#8217;s about whether &#8220;insurance companies are required to cover the cost of the shots with no out-of-pocket charges to consumers.&#8221; There is limited benefit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90780,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90779\/revisions\/90780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}