The FDA Is Backing Away From the mRNA Shots. But Is it Too Little, Too Late?

The US has been much more aggressive about the COVID-19 shots than European countries, the FDA says

The FDA is no longer recommending COVID-19 injections for most Americans.

According to the Associated Press, the agency will now only recommend the shots for seniors over 65 and for younger Americans with at least one health condition that may increase their risk of severe illness or death. The FDA is also reportedly urging pharmaceutical companies to conduct large, lengthy randomized controlled trials before marketing a vaccine to healthy people—something that was not done with the mRNA shots.

This is welcome news, and tragically overdue.

The experimental mRNA shots never should have been unleashed on the general population, especially not on young and middle-aged healthy Americans who stood to gain nothing from them. And the Medical-Industrial Complex knew it.

That’s why the CDC withheld key data on the booster shot for 18- to 49-year-olds—the very group least likely to benefit. CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund claimed the data was not released “because basically, at the end of the day,…