"Most of them expressed a willingness to pay for the vaccine out of pocket. Anyone who didn’t meet arbitrary age and gender recommendations was denied the vaccine, based on the rationale that there was insufficient proof it would help."
I paid for the three-shot series in something like 2011 or 2012, and getting it was hard. I called a bunch of minute clinics and urgent cares before I found one, on 8th Avenue and 13th or 14th Street in Manhattan, where a family doc would prescribe and administer it. She waffled but went through with it.
RSV is less serious but limiting RSV vaccines to people ages 60 or 65+ (whatever the cutoff is) also seems shortsighted.
"Most of them expressed a willingness to pay for the vaccine out of pocket. Anyone who didn’t meet arbitrary age and gender recommendations was denied the vaccine, based on the rationale that there was insufficient proof it would help."
I paid for the three-shot series in something like 2011 or 2012, and getting it was hard. I called a bunch of minute clinics and urgent cares before I found one, on 8th Avenue and 13th or 14th Street in Manhattan, where a family doc would prescribe and administer it. She waffled but went through with it.
RSV is less serious but limiting RSV vaccines to people ages 60 or 65+ (whatever the cutoff is) also seems shortsighted.