FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

[deurbano]

31. We just got new boosters (6 months after the last ones) because we will be traveling. My husband and I are over 65, so

no problem...but usually my adult disabled daughter (she is attending meetings in cities on both coasts, and we will be traveling as her caregivers) fills out her vaccine info online....but this time her dad did it in-person it (as we waited at the pharmacy), and didn't mark her as immunocompromised (which our daughter would have done if filling it out herself), so the pharmacist kind of prompted her to self-declare. She isn't officially in that category, but has had cancer (spending 5 months in the hospital for treatment), and is quadriplegic, and her primary care provider and hematologist both consider her vulnerable. She did get COVID once (as a delegate to the Dem convention in Chicago!), and took Paxlovid, which helped right away with no rebound, but we hope to avoid another infection, of course. I'm still a NOVID, but my husband and younger daughter have had it, too. My son has never tested positive, but as a very active and about 26-year-old, I think he may just be in the asymptomatic category.

So... I hope people will still be able to self-declare vulnerability, and not have to "prove" it?

I'm glad you are past your suicidal tendencies. High school was rough for me, too, but it was more about family life. (Getting away from my parents made a huge difference in my desire to keep living.)