TThe American diseases of disease and disease prevention (CDC) no longer recommend the COVVI-19 vaccine for pregnant women and healthy children, the American secretary for health and social services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. video On his X account on May 27. “We are now one more step to make President Trump's promise to make the Americans again in good health,” said Kennedy, who was flanked by Dr. Martin Makary, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner (FDA), and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, chief of the National Institute of Health.
The opposite announcement The previous advice of the CDC. At the time of the announcement, the CDCs Web page It always contained its previous recommendation that all six months and more aged or vaccinated, and that “obtaining the COVVI-199 vaccine from 2024-2025 is particularly important if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant or could become pregnant in the future.”
Public health experts immediately postponed the announcement. “Despite the change in HHS recommendations, science has not changed,” said Dr. Steven Fleischman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, in a press release. “It is very clear that the infection codes during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability, and this can cause devastating consequences for families. The covid vaccine is safe during pregnancy and vaccination can protect our patients and their infants.”
The Dre Tina Tan, president of the infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), added in a press release that COVID-19 can increase the risk of “premature work and birth, pre-eclampsia, cardiac lesions, blood clots, hypertension and kidney damage” for pregnant women.
The manufacturers of the most administered COVI -19 vaccines – Pfizer -Biontech and Moderna – did not immediately respond to requests for comments. But in response to the other recent FDA restriction on the admissibility to the COVVI-19 vaccine, Pfizer said it “[stood] By the science behind the Pfizer-Biontech COVVI-19 vaccine and continue to believe that large vaccination programs are an essential tool to help prevent hospitalizations associated with COVID-19 and a serious illness, including death “, while Moderna declared” stay “[ed] committed to working with the agency to provide the data they need to guarantee access to the Americans. “”
Here is what you need to know about the unusual inversion of advice.
How are decisions like this generally made?
In the United States, the FDA approves vaccines after examining studies on their safety and efficiency, and the CDC makes recommendations on which should be vaccinated and when, on the basis of the advice of an expert advisory committee. It is not clear if this committee was consulted before Kennedy changes; The time has contacted several members, and one refused to comment while others did not immediately respond to comment. “This decision bypassing a process based on evidence established for a long time to ensure the safety of vaccines and ignores the expertise of independent medical experts, including members of the CDC committees who examine the evidence concerning the vaccine to make recommendations for the fall,” said Dr. Sean O'Leary, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on infectious diseases A declaration in time.
Addition of IDSA Tan: “It is worrying that a change in as important policy has been made unilaterally outside an open process and based on evidence regardless of the negative impact that this will have on millions of Americans.”
What the decision could mean to you
For the public, the decision could mean more obstacles to obtaining COVVI-19 vaccines and higher prices if they manage to access. Insurers make decisions on the shots to be covered according to the recommendations of the CDC – especially for children – and if the COVVI -19 vaccine is no longer one of the vaccinations recommended by the CDC, insurers could stop covering them, forcing parents who wish to vaccinate their children to pay for the shots.
“Many health insurers are based on federal recommendations to determine the coverage, and this decision could make more difficult for millions of Americans to access the vaccines they want for themselves and their families,” Tan said. “IDSA strongly urges insurers to maintain coverage of COVVI-19 vaccines so that all Americans can make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families against diseases, hospitalization and serious death. IDSA also urges Congress to proceed with significant and necessary monitoring to ensure appropriate decision-making processes at the Ministry of Health and Human Services, which will have an impact on people.”
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Do children and pregnant women still need COVVI-19 vaccines?
During the pandemic, when COVVI -19 vaccines were first authorized and then approved, federal health officials focused on the use of shots to control serious illnesses and a drop in hospitalizations and deaths – no prevention of infections. Kennedy, who has long been skeptical of vaccines in general and continues to openly question their safety, and its health officials have published publicly whether the same recommendations for COVVI-19 vaccines are still relevant today, when more people have developed immunity to the virus, or repeated vaccinations, infections, or both. A week before this announcement, the FDA said that it would limit the approvals of the COVVI-19 vaccine to those who are most at risk of serious illness and would require additional studies on healthier people to confirm the safety and efficiency of blows.
However, some infectious disease experts note that in the United States, during the last season of winter respiratory diseases, just over 400,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, and several hundred people deceased every week. The most vulnerable to the complications that send them to the hospital were the elderly, those whose weakened immune system and those who were pregnant. Given the potential risk of the long coconut and some of the long-term effects in the long-term recovery of the recovery of an infection, the CDC always advises that “obtaining a COVVI-19 vaccine is a safer and more reliable way to strengthen protection than to fall sick with COVID-19”.
This is particularly true for pregnant women, who can also transmit the protection they receive from vaccination to their newborns in the first six months, before infants are immune. “”Maternal immunization is also associated with better results for infants and a decrease in complications, including maternal and infantile hospitalizations, “said Society for Materal-Fetal Medicine in a press release.
“By deleting the recommendation, the decision could eliminate families of choice,” said O'Leary. “What is clear is that pregnant women, infants and young children run a higher risk of hospitalization on the part of Covid, and the safety of the coded vaccine has been widely demonstrated.”
