Lastly calling for repeat RCTs in adolescents for updated boosters is a disingenuous straw man argument. Repeating RCTs in rare adverse event detection is impractical and unethical especially for an effective vaccine. That’s why post-marketing surveillance (VAERS, V-safe, VSD, etc.) exists!

1/ The danger of a single story isn’t that it’s untrue, it’s that it’s incomplete. When countries reliant on US aid are seen as “undeserving beggars,” it erases their rich histories, resilience, and humanity, reducing complex societies to one narrative of need.