US EditionHow Changes to Covid-19 Vaccine Policy in the US May Affect You
- Last week, the FDA updated COVID-19 vaccine rules to limit boosters mainly to people 65 and older and certain high-risk groups in the US.
- These changes follow a new FDA framework requiring more clinical data before approving vaccines for healthy people under 65, while removing recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people.
- The CDC stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women but maintains recommendations for older adults and those with underlying conditions.
- FDA officials estimate that between 100 and 200 million Americans qualify under the updated policy, which seeks to quickly authorize vaccines while ensuring sufficient data supports their wider distribution.
- Experts say these changes could reduce vaccine access for some high-risk groups and that the upcoming ACIP vote will influence future COVID-19 vaccine guidance.
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How Can Changes in the U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Policy Affect You?
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes in the way Covid-19 vaccines and the groups for which they are recommended are approved. Over the past few years, the federal government has widely approved and recommended an updated Covid-19 vaccine for all people from 6 months of age each fall. But last week, the leaders of t…
How changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy in the US may affect you
The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes to how Covid-19 vaccines are approved and the groups they are recommended for.
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Yesterday, we looked into some of the dire implications the Trump budget has for health care, but what’s happening within the agencies tasked directly with protecting public health may well be an even bigger upheaval.“News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither. I am pro-safety,” then-nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said back in January at his confirmation hearing. The statement, coming from a career vaccine c…
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