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Apparently HHS was funding several DEI and related projects and grants, to the tune of $122 million. Why, I have no idea except for mission creep, since they included money ($5.5 million) to help Vanderbilt recruit minority faculty (and taxpayer money should be spent on that why?) and $4.6 million to Drexel for ‘mentoring and supporting diverse early-stage faculty dedicated to health disparities research.’

And as a follow-up to this morning’s post, the FDA has changed its guidance for the covid shots so that people have to prove that they are high-risk in order to get them.

Pfizer said that the FDA authorization it receives requires people “ages 5 through 64 years” to have “at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19.”

Moderna noted its vaccine is “now approved for individuals 6 months through 64 years of age with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19, and all adults 65 years of age and older.”

Novavax said that “individuals 12 through 64 years” must now ‘have at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 (e.g. asthma, cancer, diabetes, obesity, smoking).”

More than 73% of Americans got at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot as of late 2021, with the holdouts at the time — who pointed to rare side-effects such as heart conditions or simply said they weren’t interested — invoking the wrath of the Biden administration.

To my mind, this is a chicken/egg situation. Do they need the shots because they are high-risk, or are they high-risk because they previously had the shots?