Access To COVID Vaccines Are Going To Be Much More Limited Moving Forward
New framework ends the absurdity of a half-decade long "emergency"
So many abuses during the COVID-19 pandemic were enacted and excused under the guise of "emergency use."
We must suspend civil liberties, close businesses, penalize people for refusing to wear masks, even though masks don't work, shut down necessary medical care, and keep kids home because of the endless COVID emergency. No amount of data would convince politicians like Joe Biden or Gavin Newsom to acknowledge that years of "emergency" is an insane, unjustifiable abuse of power.
The United States, and most of the western world, is still dealing with the fallout of those policy decisions, years later. Stimulus bills, justified because of the "COVID emergency," contributed to rampant, runaway inflation that still continues to harm international economies in late 2025. Masks are now a permanent part of life for some misled individuals, with hospitals in extremist states like California continuing mask mandates indefinitely.
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Then there's the COVID vaccines. One of the most prominent examples of "emergency use" becoming an oft-relied upon crutch, COVID vaccines were released under "emergency use authorization (EUA)." And while some full approvals were eventually issued, most members of the public likely assume that nearly five years after the initial release of COVID vaccines, and with any pretense of emergency long since over, that the EUA would have ended.
They'd be wrong.
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COVID Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Finally Ending
In a post on X Wednesday afternoon, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the FDA and federal government are finally ending the emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccines. In August 2025.
"I promised 4 things," Kennedy said.
"1. To end COVID vaccine mandates. 2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies. 4. to end the emergency.
"In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished all four goals. The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded. FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+). These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors. The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three."
He then went on to thank FDA Commissioner Marty Makary for his leadership.
This is a long time coming; as Kennedy explains, emergency use authorization was used to justify a laundry list of abuses and indefensible policies. Particularly the obsessive focus on federal and corporate vaccine mandates, and the desire to force parents into getting their babies and toddlers vaccinated.
The new policy will be that all three vaccines will be only for "higher-risk individuals," including those over 65 or with elevated risk factors that could lead to more severe complications. Sanity, at last.
Most importantly, this change will limit COVID vaccines for young children. Because of the EUA, availability to children as young as 6 months old had been more widespread. But now that the EUA is removed, it reinforces that healthy children under the age of 5 do not need the vaccines, particularly with the elevated risk of side effects for younger age groups relative to the virtually nonexistent risk level for healthy children.
These changes don't undo the damage that was caused by extremist policies under the Biden administration and at a state level. But it's a first step in undoing the unnecessary policies that have been excused by an unlimited, endless emergency.
The media and their "expert" partners will be furious.
Good.
Chipping away w/RFK (Jr.). So many people want him to to move faster & harder, but he's being strategic & working on building coalitions & removing bad actors in these departments. Remember that ~1/2 of all Americans still think that our COVID response was OK.
Excellent article, Ian! And very timely too, since we have another article for you to debunk:
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf430/8236450?login=false
This recent one claims that COVID infections cause "accelerated vascular aging", particularly in women (but interestingly not in men, where it seemed to be null), while the "vaccines" supposedly reduce this effect, particularly in women (but again, not in men). The lamestream media seems to be all over it.
My take on this? The effect size was pretty modest, and small enough to be explained away by 1) the "healthy vaccinee effect" and any other selection bias in general, 2) survivorship bias, which also explains the gender difference as well (more men died than women), and 3) residual or unmeasured confounding. Also, it only included people recruited from September 2020 through February 2022, and was very heavy on earlier data with the earlier strains when few people were vaccinated. And Sweden was one of the countries that was excluded from this international study.
I would love for you to write an article of your own debunking, deboning, slicing, dicing, and julienning it like you did with other scary and sketchy studies.
Thank you in advance 😊