Among those backing the switch, most also want "permissive language to allow anyone wanting protection from COVID-19 vaccination to receive one," the CDC's Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said at a Tuesday meeting of the panel. A formal vote on the new guidance is expected in June by the...
Kennedy's announcement also goes further than the advisory panel, which had been weighing including pregnant women as among those who would remain eligible for COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, given their increased risk of severe disease and the fact that it could also help provide some protection...
But it appears that some states had so few concerns about the Pfizer vaccine that they began offering it to patients before ACIP had issued its recommendations. The Delaware Division of Public Health opened four COVID-19-specific clinics on Wednesday and said it would start administering the Pfiz...
Those advisers had already been weighing whether and how to narrow the agency's COVID-19 vaccine recommendations to only older adults and other people with an underlying condition that put them at risk of more severe illness from COVID-19. Kennedy's announcement also goes further than the ad...
"Where the parent presents with a desire for their child to be vaccinated, children 6 months and older may receive COVID-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a healthcare provider and personal preference and circumstances," the CDC says in its new guidance.The agency still ...
Among those backing the switch, most also want "permissive language to allow anyone wanting protection from COVID-19 vaccination to receive one," the CDC's Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said at a Tuesday meeting of the panel.A formal vote on the new guidance is expected in June by the ...
“Vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death,”Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said Monday in an agencynews release. “The public can be as...
Trying to come up with tailored recommendations could also be impractical to implement, CDC officials said the work group concluded, and risked setting up barriers to vaccination for those who are at greatest risk. More than 7 in 10 adults are already at higher risk of severe COVID-19 due ...
Childhood vaccination rates for COVID-19 are already low just 13% of children and 23% of adults have received the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine, according to CDC data .Talk of changing the recommendations has been brewing. As the COVID-19 pandemic has waned, experts have discussed the ...
As of April, more than three-quarters of the working group on the Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for this coming fall and winter favored risk-based recommendations, though they don’t plan to formally vote on the policy change until the next meeting, which is scheduled for June.