A CDC panel voted to include the COVID-19 vaccine on the list of routine immunizations for adults and children as young as six months old.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel voted Thursday to include the COVID-19 vaccine on the list of routine immunizations for adults and children as young as 6 months.
Contrary to claims made on social media and on television, including by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the recommendation does not mean the CDC is requiring a COVID-19 shot for children. It also does not mean that schools will have to require that students receive the shot before enrolling. The CDC does not have the authority to mandate vaccines; that decision is left up to states and local jurisdictions.
“When these vaccines are added to the immunization schedules like this, insurance companies then take up the cost of the vaccines. So when the public health emergency and or the federal resources dry up, insurance companies would then pick up the cost,” Morita said. Morita said public health officials and healthcare providers need to work together to ensure that accurate information is easily and consistently available, as an effort to head off the barrage of misinformation, especially about the coronavirus vaccine.
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