FDA Not Recommending Newly Approved COVID-19 Vaccine: Official

The Food and Drug Administration does not recommend shots, Dr. Vinay Prasad said.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, in an undated photograph. FDA via The Epoch Times

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new COVID-19 vaccine, but it is not recommending that people receive it, the agency’s top vaccine officials said on June 4.

“There’s another misconception I want to clarify, which is, people have said, ‘You at FDA are recommending the shots to high-risk people and older people.’ I want to be very clear, the FDA is not your doctor. We are not; we don’t recommend shots to people,” Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a video released by the agency.