Three vaccines broadly approved for people 65 and older, but with limits for younger groups
by Terrence Rudd, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
August 27, 2025 • 4 min read
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/117178


When more people get sick, and they will across a spectrum, the freak predator will just shrug his shoulders.

Its still going to exclude millions and for no other reason than misinformation and politics.

Hopefully, we can bring enough attention to this that he ends up removed from his position.

NT

...is whether or not insurance companies choose to cover the shots for those not in the recommended group.

Which, if insurance companies choose not to cover the shots, means that many people will be excluded, but it's not ban on the shot except for high-risk people.

just for us elderly folks.

In the article on Medpage, the compliant writer says

"They're going to modify our chill'ns genes and they'll turn into autistic mutants!"
Or something.
Of course, the GOP has all sorts of unregulated or never gonna be approved snake oil to get to market and make billions off desperate, gullible "common folks" and woo practitioners.

I just saw a thing where the FDA approved for doctors to prescribe Ivermectin.

We are cutting vaccines and approving large animal de-wormer. This really is the worst timeline.

Let them. They are so full of shit, maybe it will help.

those folks tend to be great at math and science.

and their families, my grandchildren, ages 11 to 24. I can just barely tolerate what our lives have become and the trumpers still don't get it.

has proven, that an ADDITIONAL 500,000 U.S. Citizens were killed by Trump and the Republican's Actions/In-actions, and stalling during the Covid Pandemic........

I guess the Republicans, (RFK Jr. and Trump specifically) are not though with "culling" the herd, by eliminating the vaccinating of the U.S. Population.......Also, infants and children not being vaccinated for childhood diseases.........

In every way possible, the Republicans are hell bent on taking us back 100+ years, to the days of the GILDED AGE, with ROBBER BARRONS.........
It doesn't take a genius to realize that the upcoming Depression, will make the "Great Depression", a hundred years ago, look like a slight recession......and we don't have an FDR to pull the nation out of it...........

But inexplicably also wants to make sure that access to this vaccine is restricted. Another coherent policy from Trump. Geesh!

Period.

A local school in my area that is already closed because of a COVID outbreak! They have been in school for a couple of weeks.

(I am in the Global South not the US).

Vaccines aren’t enough. They should ban those wet markets.
I have made the same analogy with ransomware patches..data mining should just be banned. I don’t mean the old model of the web but this emerging newer web rife with ai, predatory data miners from the sleazy and corrupt to outright dark web etc

Updated Covid vax are due in second week of September. Run DO NOT WALK to your pharmacy, doctor, or clinic. These will run out quickly.

Good luck everyone. These are scary times.

We've already made an appointment.

For 9/4. I usually get vaccinations at Walgreens, which is closer, but they're still saying the vaccine hasn't been approved and they're not taking appointments.

I signed up for a flu shot, too.

I've never been this excited to get a shot!

... but there is little we can do when our leaders abide by rules that Trump & Company ignore, and gleefully trample into a puddle of blood and bone. What we can do is target Republicans with the cold, hard facts of what they'll face when this house of cards collapses around them, and they're left holding the bag. Let there be NO doubt that said collapse is will happen; it's as certain as the Sun setting in the west. And what they are enabling is flat-out treason, the punishment for which has a certain finality to it. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for far less than what Trump has already done.
Even the dumbest of them has to know, just from the outcries at their town halls, that they're in real trouble. If they want to come away from this monumental clusterfuck in one piece, it's time for them to do what's right for the country, NOT the treacherous weasels at the Heritage Foundation.
There can be no doubt that Musk and others found a way to alter election results in critical swing states that Harris WAS way ahead in. There IS proof, and they can provide it. It's that, or die in prison, because this shit IS going to end, one way or another. Make it that stark a choice.
Bloodshed is almost inevitable at this point. Almost. The GOP is dead, but there must be a few adherents to that diseased political philosophy that have some sense of self-preservation.
Sorry, Michelle, but this "When they go low, we go high" starry-eyed Pollyanna viewpoint is not going to work. We take it to 'em in the trenches with zero mercy. You can damn sure betcha they wouldn't show you any.
Is my raging contempt for these people starting to show? Good.

I hope vaccinated liberals will have some residual immunity from before.

Supposedly 81% of Americans have gotten at least one dose. Liberals have gotten more because of annual boosters. Conservatives can take their chances. FAFO

Immune compromised people should still be eligible

More for others than for me. But this is scary shit.

If it's not officially recommended, it's probably not going to be covered. It would be nice if the insurance companies simply said," We believe in the concept of herd immunity, and therefore will pay for the Covid vaccine for any of our insureds who want it," but that's an awfully big thing to hope for from such soulless individuals.

That it’s lower cost overall to cover the vaccines

I sure hope so

is that they pay attention to peoples' needs only after they're dead.

Updated coronavirus vaccines may not be available until mid-September, and people who are not considered high risk may not be able to access them.

Covid is rising. New vaccines may not be ready until mid-September. Article fails to mention that CDC recommendations for staying home when infected are too short or other means of protection including masks, air filtration and improved ventilation.
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— Ron Chusid (@rchusid.bsky.social) 2025-08-18T14:18:02.930Z

Basically, if you're over 65 or meet a few other criteria, it will be available at a pharmacy.

Everyone else will have to book a doctor's appointment.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-is-eligible-for-the-covid-vaccine-in-2025-and-how-to-get-it/

Archive link:
https://archive.is/20250827225157/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-is-eligible-for-the-covid-vaccine-in-2025-and-how-to-get-it/

I checked their website today and setup an appointment for next week based on their label COVID-19 (new). Considering this post, I think I should check with CVS and find out what is what.

Currently all I been hearing is, it will be available mid September.

It turns out you can find out who in your area has the newest version of the Moderna vaccine and, guess what, CVS is not on the list. Here is the link to the Moderna search:
https://products.modernatx.com/mnexspike

When I went to cancel the appointment, CVS lists the 2005-2006 approved Moderna as the one being cancelled even though the Moderna search did not show CVS in my list. I wonder if they stripped CVS out of their lists entirely after this morning's news. They probably have pharmacies in those 16 non-approved states that had already ordered the vaccine and their software wasn't easy to adapt to a maybe situation so they may have deleted CVS entirely rather than risk misleading people. But wouldn't all pharmacies in those 16 states be effected whether they announced it or not?

said they don't have any Covid vaccine. This is crazy.

they said they are waiting on the State of Indiana to release it. I asked, when will that be? She said, it will be late October or early November if they do release.

These factors will still exclude people who need the COVID vaccination

Link to tweet

Unless there is a clinical description, that sounds like just anyone could qualify.

So the CDC is trying to get private medical information on Americans? That's what I see. So my choices are I could risk dying or long COVID or tell a hostile government details of my personal medical history (that they would never use against me in another way) to get access to the vaccine?

She said she can write a letter for wherever I get my shots - which is CVS. Some states (including mine) prohibit pharmacists from providing vaccines that are not approved by CDC. In this case, the letter would reflect that my Dr recommends it. Not sure that i do would actually make it to CDC

She said they can't give them at the practice because they don't have enough people who want them and the doses have a short shelf life.

I’m depressed that the country is being run by idiots.

Bingo, Covid jab.

As I wrote earlier, I made an appt to get the COVID and flu shots today at CVS. I'm 65 and have Medicare, and I contacted Medicare ahead of time and verified that they would pay.

Got there today and the CVS pharmacist said Medicare hasn't decided if they'll pay, even for people who are 65 or older. CVS said I could go back and get reimbursed after Medicare makes its decision. I'll have to go back in person, so I should've just bailed and waited til everything's official. But I'd already been waiting for almost an hour, so I just bit the bullet and paid. $224.99.

I'm in California.

at CVS in Indiana. They accepted our Medicare. Are you on an Advantage plan?

Very strange.