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Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.
The health secretary’s CDC panel wants to stop recommending Covid vaccines but left bigger debates unresolved.
RFK Jr.’s panel recommended halting MMRV vaccines for children under four and postponed voting on the hepatitis B schedule.
RFK Jr.'s reshaped ACIP vaccine panel re-did a vote from yesterday on the MMRV vaccine and scrapped plans for another vote on the hepatitis B birth dose.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s federally-focused campaign against vaccines is entering a new phase with allies intent on rolling back school and health care facility mandates.
Vaccine upheaval, day two: Federal vaccine advisers recommend a more restrictive approach to getting coronavirus vaccinations and delay a vote on hepatitis B shots. Cassidy asks RFK Jr. to RSVP: The Senate health panel’s leader invites RFK Jr. to “share his side of the story.”
As a group of advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met this week to discuss recommendations on who should get the updated Covid-19 shot this season, a newly published analysis from dozens of researchers emphasizes the “substantial” benefits of broad vaccine recommendations.
The CDC vaccine advisory committee, called ACIP, voted 8-3 to narrow the recommendations. One person abstained from voting due to a conflict of interest. Another vote on dropping a longstanding recommendation to give all newborns a hepatitis B vaccination at birth was delayed until Friday.