On Monday, Disease Control and Prevention Centers have updated their Covid vaccine recommendations to recommend Covid Shots 65 and older people and only after consulting doctors or pharmacists.
In a CDC press release, temporarily director Jim O’Neylis signed the recommendations of the agency’s advisory commission last week, caught up in a month of confusion and concern about this season’s Covid vaccine. Earlier this year, the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 influential vaccine commission members, replacing them with his choices, many of which opposed Covid vaccines.
Kennedy, a longtime anti -vaccine activist, falsely named the Covid vaccine “mortal the vaccine ever done”, first moved to May to restrict shots when he overtook a typical regulatory process and announced that CDC would no longer recommend Covide vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
Christian Brown receives the Covid-19 vaccination in Culver City, California, September 23. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times during Getty Images)
Monday signed by CDC does not mean that people under the age of 65 are not allowed to receive Covido vaccine-they can still do it after consulting doctors or pharmacists.
Adding that the so -called general clinical decision -making basically “causes another small obstacle” to get a shot, said dr. Professor of World Health and Infectious Diseases of Yvonne Maldonado, Stanford University. “This is a kind of obscure term that you should have your doctor or your provider or pharmacist to tell you the risk and benefits before getting the vaccine.”
The CDC said the recommendations of the vaccine commission for people under the age of 65 were the greatest benefit of increasing the risk due to severe Covido. The benefits of vaccination were the least in people under the age of 65 with no higher risk of severe covidide.
However, how easy it is to get a Covid shot, it may depend on where you live.
In previous years, states have usually reflected the instructions from the CDC vaccine, especially because of the advisory vaccine commission called the Advisory Immunization Practice Committee, which was considered one of the most important authorities of vaccination.
Before the CDC report, 26 states (mainly the Blue States with Democratic governors) have already identified their Covid Shot recommendations to make access as wide as possible, says KFF Non -partial Health Policy Research Group.
The result is complicated by Covid vaccine policies across the country.
“Now we have agreed between the federal government and the states how to manage Covido immunization,” said dr. OFERE Levy. “We are confronted with an unprecedented complex landscape.”
For example, the DC of Illinois, Maryland and Washington is officially recommended by the global Covidide vaccination for all 6 months and older. Other states, such as California, Michigan and Minnesota, recommend shots for all 3 years and older.
“Viruses do not respect the state borders,” Levy said. “Looking at the protection of the public against infectious diseases, the last thing you want as a strategy, is differently protected in different states. It is confusing, it is inconsistent and leaves some people vulnerable.”
In addition, some doctors’ offices may have no incentive to accumulate the vaccine as the CDC recommendation is concentrated on older adults. According to CDC last season, 23% of adults and 13% of children received a Covidian vaccine.
“There are all kinds of ways when people who want vaccines may not be able to get it because of all these little obstacles that are installed, even theoretically, someone 6 months and older should get them,” said Maldonado, who is also a pediatrician.
In her report, Amy Thibault, a spokeswoman for CVS Health, said her pharmacies would be ready to administer Covido shots for people 5 years of age and older as soon as the CDC sign.
Walgreens starts Covid vaccines at the age of 3. Walgreens spokesman by email The letter stated that the pharmacy chain “will offer 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines throughout the country”.
Do I need a Covido shot?
According to CDC monitoring data, The Covid pandemic began in 2020, and it seems that the increase in summer in cases of the highest point in many parts of the country and had a winter wave.
Like a flu shot, the Covid vaccine does not necessarily stop a person from the virus to become infected. However, this reduces the likelihood of serious illness, hospitalization or death.
Renewed Pfizer and Modern Covid shots to LP.8.1, which this year was the dominant tension in the US, but has been overtaken by newer options. The updated Novavax Covid Shot is directed to an even older tension called JN.1.
Based on CDC, from September 27th. 8.1 LP.8.1 accounted for only 3% of all new cases of Covids. The strain, called XFG, is now dominated by at least 85% of new Covidides. All are the offspring of the Omicron version, which originated in 2021. At the end of the end.
Research on Modern and Pfizer presented at the FDA Advisory Committee meeting in May found that the renewed shot had developed a modest immune response to the circulating trunks at the time than last year’s Covid shots.
Usually, after immunity to immunity, it takes a few weeks later.
Did Covid shoot free?
Most people with insurance who want to vaccinate on Covid should release them this year.
Prior to the CDC advisory committee meeting, the health insurance industry AIPH said that private plans will continue to include all CDC recommended vaccines, which have been recommended as of September 1st, which means that its previous Covid Shot recommendation for 6 months and older is still applicable.
Medicare, Medicaid and other government health programs will continue to cover shots for free, said a spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department.
This article was originally published in nbcnews.com