eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/…/85740271007/
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/…/85649593007/
Saw this in a scicomm feed. Hope it reaches someone. ❤️
I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.
LPT: Go get a shot, now.
Submitted 9 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
My favorite JFK conspiracy is that no one killed him. His head just did that.
I like to imagine that he entered a Mandela trance that gave him a peek into our timeline where he saw RFK Jr. Then his head blew up.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Head not worth shooting i guess, even the worm inside it is found dead, probably from suicide.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
The worm is calling the shots here.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Nor John Kennedy, who’s even more of an asshole.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
You know, there’s something called “rule of three”…
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
🇨🇦 we approved 'em here. And they’re being made her now, too.
I’d say come visit in October, but maybe don’t fly in those big aluminum petri dishes!
Nougat@fedia.io 8 hours ago
Now, I'm not saying everything isn't a shitshow. Clearly it is. Based on the general insanity, I am 100% in favor of getting vaccinated sooner rather than later. But "might" != "will".
I'm quite glad you included article links. Careful, though; the image posted is how propaganda works. By itself, it is unsourced, apart from the Unambiguous Science logo at the bottom (which could have been put there by anyone). UnSci refers to itself as
No sensational headlines, no politicizing of science. Just evidence based information.
And as noted early in this comment, the image says "will revoke" while the reporting says "might/may revoke".
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yah while I’m aware of the situation and what’s been said, what has been said wasn’t exactly from a highly reputable source, it wasn’t even from the DHHS, it was someone who “talked to” RFK, and somehow every news outlet picked it up.
That all said, it could indeed happen, the administration is unhinged and a spike in covid deaths would be great for their plan of manufactured chaos, but they also have a much longer track-record of leaking crazy implications in order to fuck with the valuation of stocks.
They may also be planning to do the Chairman Trump thing again and leverage their threats for a 10% cut of Moderna and Pfizer’s profits.
All in all, it’s way too unverified and unpredictable to know for sure what’s going to happen, however this infographic/poster thing is really terrible. It’s framed like an announcement, posted in first-person, and has no links or sources. It’s so terrible I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone in the administration made it and leaked it also.
Nougat@fedia.io 3 hours ago
You complete me.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I guess they’re not authorizing the licensure of them, so that’s why it’s so tentative. He’s doing the trump vague thing, so you can’t go after him directly and then slowly take things away.
The rise in COVID comes as the Trump administration has delayed the rollout of the updated vaccine for the fall. Last year, the federal government had fully green-lighted the annual reformulation of the vaccine by June, in time for a rollout that began in September.
This year, however, the Department of Health and Human Services led by vaccine skeptic Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has in effect delayed the rollout of this fall’s COVID shot.
“Updated COVID-19 vaccines have been delayed this year due to federal policy changes, and we are awaiting [Food and Drug Administration] licensure of this season’s products,” the L.A. County Department of Public Health said in a statement to The Times. “This means availability in September may be later than what people experienced last fall.”
The California Department of Public Health also warned that because the federal government hasn’t made decisions on licensure approvals and recommendations, “availability and timing of specific COVID-19 vaccine products may be more limited and occur on a later schedule.”
StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 7 hours ago
LPT: Go get a shot, now.
Saw the US flag, read it without the "a"
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Did they even release the shots for 2025-2026 yet?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 hours ago
yeah not yet, I’ll be getting them quickly but I was already going to do that
scytale@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Supposed to be released very soon (as in days, not weeks). The real LPT is to wait for the new version first.
VivianRixia@piefed.social 8 hours ago
mid September is what I heard for those
CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
So if one already had a dose of the previous booster about a year or so ago, would it be helpful to get the same version of the booster again now?
Is the post simply suggesting to people that haven’t yet had the booster go get it? Or is it saying you’re better off getting the same booster again rather than nothing?
Also, I’m assuming people with the means to go to a different country without these laughing stock “leaders” would be better waiting for those countries to approve and release up-to-date vaccines.
egerlach@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
My understanding is that because of the type of protien that it encodes for, the immunity imparted by the vaccine decreases over time (because of complex immune system reasons). Never to 0%, but lower. The annual booster not only prepares you better for oncoming strains (in theory, when the vaccine research, development, and approval systems work as expected), but re-ups your immunity to existing strains.
The theory as I understand it is that because viruses like COVID-19 pass through populations in waves, your body is developing a very strong short-term immunity to neutralize any immediate “rebound” waves (imagine a wave bouncing off the side of a pool, yes, viruses move through populations like that). It then maintains a weaker, long-term response. By fooling your immune system into thinking you have COVID-19 right now, the vaccine bumps your body ino “short-term” response mode, so your best possible immune response is at the ready if the real thing shows up.
I am not an epidimeologist, but I read a lot of their work from 2020-2023. I might have details wrong, but if it’s been >6mo since you’ve had a booster, you would probably benefit from getting another one.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Virus waves are exacerbated by holiday schedules. First school starts and kids are a massive disease vector. Then Thanksgiving comes and people spread it to their families and bring it back home. Then it has a month to spread and then Christmas comes.
happybadger@hexbear.net 8 hours ago
I just got one of the current strains. It felt just as bad as the ones in 2020. Vaccination is totally warranted.
salty_chief@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I skipped my C-19 shot. The Flu shot I still get. There is a reason the C-19 shots recommendations have changed.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Yeah, the reason is that RFK Jr. is a hack.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Good, I hope you get COVID and suffer its consequences.
salty_chief@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Well, I received the shot and booster prior to skipping all future shots. I did get C-19 like about 3yrs after my booster. It was as expected body sore and similar to flu symptoms.
Since I don’t regularly interact with public by not leaving home. I am not worried about it, but thanks for believing in me.
triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 4 hours ago
The reason the “shots recommendations have changed” is the sociological production of the end of the pandemic.
COVID, especially long COVID are causing longterm organ damage and massive increases in disability(Pandemic Accountability Index "What COVID-19 Does to the Body, June 2025).
I can’t tell you why governments of different political leanings around the world are supporting various levels of this vibes-based public health negligence “it’s over”-brain.
But I can tell you my immediate family member got COVID again this year - almost nobody wearing masks where they live, so they rarely wear one even though they had terrible long COVID before - and was sick in bed for another 10 days. They had had to argue to be allowed a COVID booster vaccination, a couple of months before that.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 5 hours ago
This makes the wearing of N95s and routinely washing your hands triply important. Put your masks on people.
Outside of the US, mRNA vaccines are too expensive, now that governments have ended subsidies. I’ll stick with my old school SinoVac vaccine as they’re what I can afford, and they got me thru the worst of the pandemic. Thank you Chinese government for putting people over profit.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 5 hours ago
In my country the’re still free lol, also, SinoVac, is effective, but way less so than mRNA vaccines, here in chile, basically everyone got vaccinated again and again with different vaccines.
mmmac@lemmy.zip 14 minutes ago
Don’t chastise me as I am genuinely curious – I saw this clip on Huberman lab where the director of the NIH said that the covid vaccine was net more harmful that good for younger men. Is this not the case?
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