Advisers to the CDC on Thursday unanimously voted to add COVID-19 vaccines to the 2023 schedule of childhood and adult immunizations. States and localities still have the final say on whether to require vaccinations for school-age children.
about the updating of the vaccine schedule, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf noted, “We need to be clear that the benefits outweigh the risk of vaccination, but mandates are not the remit of either CDC or FDA.”The endorsement could expand vaccine access, since the Affordable Care Act requires health plans to cover vaccines listed on the CDC schedule, said Emmanuel Drabo, a health economist at Johns Hopkins University.
But the decision “is not enough to get our vaccine coverage levels to the levels we want them to be,” said Julie Morita, executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Chicago’s former health commissioner.The CDC panel separately added COVID vaccines to the federal Vaccines for Children Program, to ensure uninsured kids will continue to have access to shots when funding runs out.
The FDA has approved only the Pfizer primary series vaccine for people 12 and up and the Moderna primary series for those 18 and older.This includes Novavax, which the agency
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