Children's Health Defense
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering pulling the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) list of recommended vaccines for children, two people familiar with the situation told Politico.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) CEO Mary Holland said she was “thrilled” with the news.
“CHD challenged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s [FDA] decision to make these shots available to children at all. The science does not show their safety or effectiveness,” Holland said.
“Indeed, children have died, developed myocarditis, paralysis and all manner of other harms from these shots,” she added. “CHD believes this is the start of what needs to be a thorough reassessment of the CDC’s childhood vaccine recommendations.”
Attorney Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for CHD, agreed. He said removing COVID-19 shots is “the obvious place to start” if the CDC is going to modify its childhood immunization schedule.
The CDC’s current Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule recommends that children as young as 6 months old get vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of Pfizer’s shot or two doses of Moderna’s shot.
The CDC also recommends children 6 months and up receive an annual booster dose at least eight weeks after the most recent dose.
Removing the COVID-19 shot from the CDC schedule wouldn’t bar kids from receiving the vaccine, Politico said.
However, the move would likely have large ramifications as state and local authorities look to the CDC schedule when deciding vaccine requirements for students.
Insurers, including Medicaid — which covers 40% of all children in the U.S — also use the CDC’s schedule when deciding which vaccines to cover…
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