Covid Vaccine Banned for First Time in Idaho Counties

For the first time, a U.S. public health board has banned COVID-19 vaccines, with Idaho’s health department declaring that the risks now outweigh the benefits. The Telegraph has more.

Idaho’s Southwest District health department board voted four-three to stop making the vaccines available to residents in six counties across the state. All COVID-19 vaccines have been either approved or authorised for emergency use across the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The decision by the Idaho regional board will likely give ammunition to vaccine-sceptics and anti-vaxxers who pushed against the rollout of the vaccines in the U.S. It is likely that other public health boards could follow suit. Similar campaigns were run in Europe including the U.K. but received short shrift.

Texas has banned health departments from prompting Covid vaccines while Florida’s Surgeon General has recommended vaccines are no longer used, but the Idaho regional health board has gone further by banning its widespread administration.

The health board ignored the advice of its own medical director who had given evidence on the ongoing need for the vaccine. Demand for the vaccines had dropped enormously since the peak of the virus in 2021. More than 1,600 doses were given out in 2021 but that had dropped to just 64 so far in 2024. …

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