By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman
(Reuters)-The United States has ceased to recommend Routine Vaccinations COVID-19 for pregnant women and healthy children, Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr Announced in an article on social networks on Tuesday, bypassing the traditional CDC recommendation process.
Kennedy, FDA commissioner, Marty Makary and the director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, said in a video that the shots had been withdrawn from the centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the recommended vaccination calendar of prevention.
Changes occur a week after revealing more strict requirements for cocovated shots, limiting them effectively to older adults and those who risk developing a serious illness.
Traditionally, the CDC advisory committee for vaccination practices would meet and vote on the changes in the vaccination calendar or recommendations on which should obtain vaccines before the CDC director makes a final appeal. The committee did not vote on these changes.
Kennedy, a long -standing skeptic of the vaccine whose department supervises the CDC, has redone the American health system to align with President Donald TrumpThe objective of considerably reducing the federal government.
“Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get another boost despite the lack of clinical data to support the repeated recall strategy in children,” Kennedy said in the video.
The CDC, following its panel of external experts, previously recommended vaccines to the updated update for all those of six months and more.
Insurers said they were examining the regulatory directives to determine their policies, which generally follow the recommendations of the ACIP.
A spokesperson for CVS Health said that the company determined whether changes in health insurance coverage is necessary because the federal government re-evaluates eligibility for the COVVI-19 vaccine, while a spokesperson for Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said that preventive health services, including COVID vaccines, are essential to keep patients in good health.
‘Back upside down’
“The recommendation is indebted to the secretary, so the process has just been upset,” said William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and consultant of the ACIP.
Schaffner said that the CDC panel should vote on these questions at a June meeting, where it expected them to promote more targeted fire instead of a universal vaccine recommendation. “But it seems to be a bit of a pre-empty,” he said.
Dorit Reiss, professor of law at UC Law San Francisco, said in a Facebook article that the advisory committee could harm the agency in the event of potential dispute.
Studies with hundreds of thousands of people worldwide show that COVVI-19 vaccination before and during pregnancy is safe, efficient and beneficial for pregnant women and the baby, according to the CDC website.
But Makary said in the video that there was no evidence that healthy children needed routine routine. Most countries have ceased to recommend it for children, he added.
The manufacturers of Covids Moderna and Pfizer vaccines did not respond to requests for comments.
Dr Cody Meissner, professor of pediatrics in Dartmouth who co-wrote an editorial with Makary during the cocovio pandemic against Masks for Children, said he agreed with the decision.
He said he thought that the United States had overestimated the importance of the cemie vaccine for young children and pregnant women, and that previous recommendations were based on politics, adding that the severity of the disease generated by the virus seems to have decreased over time in young children.
(Report by Manas Mishra to Bengaluru and Michael Erman in New York; edition by Arun Koyyur, Maju Samuel and Bill Berkrot)
