On March 1, 2023, the same day the CDC downgraded COVID-19 to flu status, they recommended that adults 65+ get another booster shot, their 9th all up, which is promoted as the 2nd EG.5 variant shot which is called “updated” shot, for a varient that is extinct, the dominant variant in circulation Jan/Feb 2024 is JN.1, rendering updated vaccines useless. [1, 2, 3]
CDC’s director Cohen claims that “most COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations last year were among people 65 years and older. An additional vaccine dose can provide added protection that may have decreased over time for those at highest risk,” [4]
In just a three year timeframe, the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) has recommended 9 separate injections of a shot that was once advertised as the cure that would get us out of the pandemic. [4]
In their guidance they make curious statements that “over 95% of adults hospitalized in 2023-2024 due to COVID-19 had no record of receiving the latest vaccine”, but then state there is a ” high degree of population immunity against COVID-19. More than 98% of the U.S. population now has some degree of protective immunity against COVID-19 from vaccination, prior infection, or both”, yet they still recommend the vaccine for the elderly.