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The FDA extended the EUA to include BA.4/BA.5 boosters on August 31, which was 1-2 weeks after those people entered the study.

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This is because the ba.4/ba.5 vaccine is so incredibly close to the ba.1 bivalent vaccine, which did see more human trials and showed a similar safety profile as the original vaccine.

Kinda like how we get a new flu vaccine every year that doesn't go through a years long clinical study

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Sounds like conjecture to me. But that’s fine, I understand the argument for printing new mRNA vaccines. But please don’t force me to take it to keep my job or travel internationally, and don’t call me an anti-vaxxer for refusing to inject myself with an experimental vaccine that’s been tested in eight mice and a small group of humans for two weeks.

I'm not saying you have to get it. I'd like everyone to get the vaccine, because it is showing greatly improved outcomes over pre vaccine COVID.

You are anti this vaccine, and your posture is largely fear based rather than scientifically consistent given your not-an-anti-vaxxer self probably gets every year

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