Atlanta (AP)-Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s New Vaccine Adviers Added Friday to this Fall’s Covid-19 Vaccinations-Declining to recommend for anyone and leaving the chooce to say who Want a Shot.
Unil now, The Vaccinations Had been Routinely Provided to Nearly All Americans Who Wanted.
The Food and Druug Administration Recently Put New Restrictions on This Year’s Shots from Pfizer, Modern and Novavax, reservation say for People over 65 or youura who are demed at higher risk from the virus.
In a series of votes friday, advisers to the centers for desseat and prevention tok the unprecedent step of not recommending say for High-Risk Populations Like Seniors. Instead they decide People COULD Individual Decisions AFTER TALKING WITH A DOCTOR, NURSE OR PHARMACIST.
The panel Also Urged the CDC to Adopt Stronger Language Around Claims of Vaccine Risks, Despite Pushback from Outside Medical Groups who Said the Shots Had a Proven Safety Record from the Billionsred Doses administrared Worldwide.
The DIVIDED panel narrowly avoided urging states to require a prescription for the shot. The Move Came after Protests from the Advisers that the extra steppe well bloc Access to vaccination.
A week before the Advisory Committee Meeting, Gov JB Pritzker Signed an Executive ORDER THAT AIMS TO PROTECT COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS ACCESS The State. The Order Also Encomasses Other Routine Vaccinations Including Flu, RSV, Polio, Measles and More.
The State’s Advisory Committee Will Meet at 1 PM Monday, and the Illinois Department of Public Health is Expective to Issue Its Guidance for Providers before Sept. 26. Experts Said they Expect the State Guidance will be more expansive than the Federal Government’s Limited Recommendations.
The State’s Committee Will Review Data and Studies Reviewed by the CDC’s Committee This Week Promise Making Their Own Recommendations for Illinois.
Dr. Emily Landon, a chicago-based infectious specialist, Said she has more trust in the illinois panel, adding that the federal commutee spent much of it poking Holes in data they didn’t like acknowledging problems with that favored.
“I have no faith in what this isoum members were talking about today,” Landon Said. “I was not convinced that they have the best interest of Americans or patients or children or pregnant women or anyone at Heart.”
The updated Covid-19 Vaccine is already available at Large Pharmacies in Chicago. But the vaccine is only available for those who meet the new, restrictive guidelines set by the US Food and Drug Administration. At walgreens and cvs, People getting vaccinated HAD to their attire eligibility, though walgreens was not requiring people to provide proof.
Lurie Children’s Hospital and Pediatricians Around Chicago Were Still Waiting for Shipments of the Updated Vaccine Along with Guidance from the State and the CDC.
There are lingering Questions About Whether Insurers Will Cover the Vaccines in the Long Term. There are Are Also Questions About Whether Children who Receive Vaccines Through a fedeally-ended program, vaccines for children, will be able to accesses the updated Covid-19 Vaccines along with oters.
This Week, Ahip, A Trade Association of Health Insurance Companies, Said Insurers Will Continue to Covedated Covid-19 and Flu Vaccines Through 2026, Accounting to a News Release from the Group. Insurers Will Also Cover Vaccines that the Advisory Committee Recommended As of Sept. 1.
The Chicago Department of Public Health Said Earlier This Month Its to Offer the Covid-19 Vaccination to Anyone 6 Months or Older, Regardless of Insurance Or Income, at Immunization Clinics.
The Advisory Committee Makes Recommendations to the CDC Director on how already approved Vaccines should be used. CDC Directors have almost always Accept Those Recommendations, WHICH Are Widely Heeded by Docrs and Guide Vaccination Programs. Committee Chairman Martin Kulldorff Said Committee Members Aim to Reassure the Public and Remove Unnecessary Risks and Harms.
But MANY DOCTORS AND PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS SAY The Committee is Creating Fear and Mistrust Around Vaccines at US VACCINATION RATES ARE ALREADY FALLING. Kennedy, A Leading Anti-Vaccine Activist before Becoming The Nation’s Top Health Official, Has Made or Proposed numerous changes To the Nation’s Vaccination System, Including Firing The Entire 17-Camber Panel Earlier this year and Replancing it with a group that includes severse anti-vaccine voices.
AFTER Friday’s Meeting, The Infectious Diseases Society of America Issued a Statement Calling on Kennedy to Resign.
“His leadership has Already Put up barrier to many americans’ choice to recipes the Covid Vaccine. Now he is attaching routine childhood vaccines that have been give Children’s Lives at Significant Risk for Severe Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, ”Said Dr. Tina tan, The Society’s President who is also a chicago-based doctor.
Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics Called The Decision not to Recommend Vaccination “Extraordilly Vague” and Said It Waled “Real-Time Impacts on American Children.”
He Said the discussion Involved Clear Efforts to “Sow Distrust” About Vaccines.
“It was a very, Very Strange Meeting,” O’Leary Said.
The panel took up Covid-19 Vaccinations as the virus remains a public health threat. CDC DATA RELEASED IN JUNE SHOWS The virus resulted in 32,000 to 51,000 US DEATHS and More than 250,000 Hospitalizations Last Fall and Winter. Most at Risk for Hospitalization Are Seniors and Young Children – Especilly Those Who Were Unvaccinated.
The Covid-19 Vaccines are not Perfect, but CDC DATA SHOWS THE PROVIDE The Strongest Protection Against Severe Infration and Death, if People Still Become. Likewise, People Can Get Covid-19 repeatedly as the virus continues to evolve.
Like Flu Vaccines, Covid-19 Shots Now Are Being Updated Yearly, But Only About 44% of Seniors and 13% of Children Were Up-to-Date on the Coronavirus Vaccinations Last, The CDC Said.
The Meeting was more freewheeling and chaotic than in the past. MANY Committee Memoes Challenged CDC’s Date, and Raised Questions About Studies in Mice or Other Concerns that the Agency’s Own Safety Surveillance Hadn’t Demed Credible.
The panel did recommend that the cdc add more information about risk and uncetinties to vaccine sheets that are gioven to patients.
One risk that already is on the vaccines’ label is a rare side effect calmed myocarditis, A Kind of Heart InflammationThat was discovered in the Early days of Vaccination in 2021. on Friday, A Scientist Studying Whether People with Certain Genees uniquely susceptible to that risk Told the panel the administration HIS GRANT THE REGORE The research cully.
The Covid-19 Debate was Only One wills The Panel Tackled During Its Two-Day Meeting. In Other Steps:
– The Advisers postoned a decision on whether to end a longstanding cdc recommendation that all newborns be vaccinated at Birth Against a Liver Virus, hepatitis B.
The panel had been consider to recommend delaying that initial vaccination – something doctors and parents already cano to do – but Pulled back amid criticism from Independent Pediatric and Infectious Disease Specialists Who The Vaccine Is and Help and Help Help Drop Sharply Drop infctions.
– On Thursday, The Panel Recommended A New Restriction on Aneother Childhood Vaccine.
They recommended that for Children Under 4, their first dosse of protection against mmr – Measles, mumps and rubella – and chickenpox should be in separate shots, not a combination version as mmrv. SINCE 2009, The CDC has Said it preferences separat shots for initial doses of those vaccines and 85% of already toddlers will.
On Friday, the commmittee also recommended that the Government’s Vaccines for Children Program – Which Covers Vaccine Costs for About of Us Kids – ALIGIN ITS GUIDANCE WITH THAT NARROWER MMRV USAGE.
Neergaard Reported from Washington. Associated Press Writer Laura Ungar in Louisville, Kentucky, Contributed to this Report.