The new acting director of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced changes to the vaccination calendar recommended for adults against COVID-19 and for children against chickenpox.
The changes were expected and have already been presented by recommendations made two weeks ago by the Powerful CDC Advisory Committee on Vaccination Practices. All members of the committee were recently replaced after the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed everyone in the previous panel earlier this year.
CDC changes have been criticized by traditional medical groups.
The CDC now recommends that children under the age of 4 no longer receive a combined vaccine that protects against four diseases: chickenpox (also known as chickenpox), measles, mumps and rubella. Instead, the CDC now recommends two distinct planes, one just against chickenpox and the other which protects against measles, mumps and rubella.
The CDC has also officially lifted its recommendation that adults under the age of 65 obtain the updated COVVI-19 vaccine. The CDC now indicates that the decision to know if an adult under 65 obtains a COVVI-19 vaccine should be based on an “individual decision-making” in consultation with health professionals such as a doctor, a nurse or a pharmacist.
This corresponds to a change in the recommendations made to the vaccination calendar on childhood earlier this year.
The announcement was made by the acting director of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, a high -level deputy in Kennedy, a vaccination skeptic. O’Neill replaced Susan Monarez, who was dismissed as CDC director after 29 days of work. Monarerez said she had been dismissed after pushing an effort from her bosses to undermine the vaccines; Kennedy said she had been dismissed because she said she was not trustworthy.
O’Neill has no training in medicine or health care and holds the baccalaureate and the master’s degree in the humanities, according to the Associated Press, and is a former investor who was a critic of health regulations. He has already worked at the Ministry of Health and Social Services, serving six years under President George W. Bush.
O’Neill’s announcement said that changes will always allow vaccination coverage to continue the programs, including the Vaccines for Children program, the health insurance program for children, Medicare and Medicaid.
The American Academy for Pediatrics at the end of September criticized the change, which deleted the option so that toddlers get a single blow that can protect against chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella.
The Director of the Acting CDC, published by the Press Office of the Ministry of Health and Social Services, raised concerns about an increased risk of febrile crisis caused by fever after obtaining combined chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubbing vaccine (known as MMRV) compared to those that have received
The American Academy of Pediatrics said that at a meeting last month, some of the new CDC vaccine advisers “sometimes … distorted data and used common discussion points among the anti-vaccine groups. Some seemed uncommon with febrile crises. They also have compliance with CDC insurance.”
The American Academy of Family Physicians recommends that all adults will obtain the COVVI-19 COVVI -9 vaccine updated, in particular those who have risk conditions and people who have never obtained a COVVI-19 vaccine.
California Department of Public Health has slightly different guidelines. The agency recommends that adults under the age of 65 with risk factors receive the COVVI-19 vaccine, as well as all adults who are in close contact with others with risk factors and all those who choose to be vaccinated. The agency also recommends that all seniors will be vaccinated against COVID-19.
