Long COVID Justice is lifting up a campaign organized by the People’s CDC to protect our access to vaccines.
“Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST.
According to CIDRAP, “The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will likely remove recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that children, teens, and pregnant women receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported yesterday, citing people familiar with the developments.”
This is a highly concerning development, which would limit people’s access to vaccines. Further, the FDA announced that they approved the COVID vaccine by Novavax but limited it to older adults 65 years and older and those 12 to 64 years with certain health conditions. Creating these unnecessary barriers to COVID vaccines could also result in limited access to Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines. It further undermines public confidence in vaccines, which are crucial and time-tested public health tools. We can’t let that happen.
We need your voice today to oppose these limitations by the FDA in order to ensure universal access to COVID vaccines to protect people from infection, hospitalization, death, or Long COVID. The FDA is continuing to accept public comments as they consider future recommendations regarding COVID vaccines up until May 23 11:59 pm eastern.”
– People’s CDC