{"id":26959,"date":"2025-05-01T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26959"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:26:13","slug":"kennedy-issues-demands-for-vaccine-approvals-that-could-affect-fall-covid-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26959","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals that Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The agency suggested that clinical trials in humans may be required for updated Covid shots, raising questions about whether they will be available in the fall.<\/p>\n

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan that would require placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, surprising some experts who noted that such testing already routinely takes place.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that \u201call new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials\u201d before approval, and called the move a \u201cradical departure\u201d from existing standards.<\/p>\n

Modern studies tend to use placebos. One exception has been the Covid booster shots, which have been authorized without human trials to target new strains of the virus as it has evolved. It\u2019s unclear how the announcement will affect availability of Covid vaccines that were expected to be updated for the fall.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kennedy also announced an effort Thursday for the National Institutes of Health to turbocharge the development of new inoculations for Covid, bird flu and seasonal flu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new vaccine development initiative would involve methods other than the mRNA technology used to develop the dominant Covid vaccines that are already in use, a statement from the Health and Human Services department said. The mRNA shots have been the subject of conspiracy theories, and Mr. Kennedy has intensely criticized them.<\/p>\n

Taken together, the moves suggest that Mr. Kennedy will reach far into the details of vaccine development, an effort likely informed by his decades as one of the nation\u2019s most vocal critics of immunization oversight.<\/p>\n

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The agency suggested that clinical trials in humans may be required for updated Covid shots, raising questions about whether they will be available in the fall.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan that would require placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, surprising some experts who noted that such testing already routinely takes place.In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that \u201call new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials\u201d before approval, and called the move a \u201cradical departure\u201d from existing standards.Modern studies tend to use placebos. One exception has been the Covid booster shots, which have been authorized without human trials to target new strains of the virus as it has evolved. It\u2019s unclear how the announcement will affect availability of Covid vaccines that were expected to be updated for the fall.Mr. Kennedy also announced an effort Thursday for the National Institutes of Health to turbocharge the development of new inoculations for Covid, bird flu and seasonal flu.The new vaccine development initiative would involve methods other than the mRNA technology used to develop the dominant Covid vaccines that are already in use, a statement from the Health and Human Services department said. The mRNA shots have been the subject of conspiracy theories, and Mr. Kennedy has intensely criticized them.Taken together, the moves suggest that Mr. Kennedy will reach far into the details of vaccine development, an effort likely informed by his decades as one of the nation\u2019s most vocal critics of immunization oversight.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26961,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26962,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26959\/revisions\/26962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}