The US Food and Drug Administration's decision to focus on bivalent Covid-19 vaccines has revived claims that the older monovalent doses are dangerous. This is false; the agency and independent experts say both of the shots are safe and effective, but that the updated version adds protection against newer strains of the virus.

"After a MASSIVE amount of people have been vaccine injured due to taking the COVID-19 experimental shot, the FDA is no longer authorizing it for use in the United States of America," says an April 18, 2023 tweet also shared on Instagram. "If you took this shot, you've been fucking played, but we warned you!"

Another Twitter user said: "Today the FDA quietly banned the covid vaccines... This is their way is admitting they fucked up with out actually saying they fucked up."

Screenshot of an Instagram post taken April 19, 2023

Others shared a similar message. The claims follow a wave of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on social media, much of which has been debunked by AFP and others.

The FDA on April 18 updated its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations, saying the monovalent shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are "no longer authorized for use in the United States."

But the agency has said the jabs were not banned -- and that the changes reflect the evolution of the coronavirus, not safety concerns.

"It's probably worth clarifying that the monovalent vaccines are still approved (licensed). That hasn't changed," the FDA said in an April 18 tweet ...

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