{"665508":{"#nid":"665508","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Flu-ification of COVID Policy Is Almost Complete","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an advisory meeting in late January,\u0026nbsp;the FDA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/164699\/download\u0022\u003Esignaled its intention\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/164807\/download\u0022\u003Estart doling out COVID vaccines just like flu shots\u003C\/a\u003E: once a year in autumn, for just about everyone, ad infinitum. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E is a professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences,\u003C\/a\u003E co-director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Weitz said\u0026nbsp;that recommendations on the proper timing and number of doses have changed so many times that many Americans have simply \u0026quot;checked out.\u0026quot; After\u0026nbsp;the bivalent recipe debuted, polls found that an alarming proportion of\u0026nbsp;people didn\u0026rsquo;t even know the shot was available to them. That is what the Center for Disease Control and Prevention\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7203a5.htm?s_cid=mm7203a5_w\u0022\u003EMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) \u003C\/a\u003Efor the week of January 20\u0026nbsp;found. Weitz and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/stephen-beckett\u0022\u003EStephen Beckett\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist in the School of Biological Sciences, conducted research for the CDC report.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-02-06 19:13:37","changed_gmt":"2023-02-06 19:13:37","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2023\/01\/annual-seasonal-covid-vaccine-shots-federal-regulation\/672854\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"11599","name":"Joshua Weitz"},{"id":"181756","name":"Stephen Beckett"},{"id":"186639","name":"Covid-19 vaccines"},{"id":"49701","name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"},{"id":"191942","name":"Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}