US pediatricians’ new COVID-19 shot recommendations differ from CDC advice

New York – For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics considerably dives back recommendations from the US government vaccines.

The new COVVI -19 recommendations from the group – published Tuesday – come in the middle of a tumultuous year for public health, because the skeptics of the vaccines have come to power in the new Trump administration and the government’s advice has become increasingly confusing.

This will not help, admitted Dr. James Campbell, vice-president of the AAP infectious disease committee.

“It will be somewhat confusing. But our opinion is that we have to make the right choices for children to protect them,” he added.

The AAP strongly recommends COVVI-19 shots for children from 6 months to 2 years old. Shops are also advised for older children if parents want their children to vaccinate, said the AAP.

This differs from the guidelines established by the American secretary for health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who does not recommend photos for healthy children of all ages, but says that children can get the blows in consultation with doctors.

Children aged 6 months to 2 years are at high risk of serious illness on the part of COVID-19, and it was important that the recommendations continue to highlight the need for them to be vaccinated, said Campbell, an expert in infectious diseases from the University of Maryland.

Vaccinations are also recommended for older children who have chronic pulmonary diseases or other conditions that present them at higher risks of serious illnesses, said the AAP.

The organization based in Itasca, Illinois, 95 years old, has published vaccination recommendations for children since the 1930s. In 1995, it synchronized its advice with the recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Federal Government.

Since then, there have been some small differences between the AAP and CDC recommendations. For example, the AAP indicated that children receive vaccinations by HPV from 9 years old; The CDC says it’s ok, but has focused on vaccinations at the age of 11 and 12.

But in 30 years, it is the first time that recommendations have diffraged “significantly or substantially,” said Campbell.

Until recently, the CDC – according to the recommendations of infectious disease experts – urged COVVI -19 annual boosters for all Americans aged 6 months and more.

But in May, the Secretary of the United States of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVVI-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. A few days later, the CDC issued a language that healthy children can get the gunshots, but there was no more recommendation “should”.

The idea that healthier children in good health can be able to skip covid-19 boosters. As the Pandemic COVID -19 has decreased, experts have more and more discussed the possibility of concentrating vaccination efforts on people aged 65 and over – who are among those who are the most risky of death and hospitalization.

A panel of CDC experts in June had to make recommendations on fall shots. Among the options that the panel was considering, there was whether to suggest shots for high -risk groups, while giving people at a lower risk of being vaccinated.

But Kennedy circumvented the group and also decided to reject the panel of 17 members and appoint his own panel, which included the skeptics of the vaccines. Kennedy has also excluded CAA, the American Medical Association and other medical work organizations to work with advisers to establish vaccination recommendations.

Kennedy’s new vaccination committee has not yet voted on COVVI-19 recommendations.

The panel approved the continuation of recommending vaccinations on the fall flu, but also made a decision which led to another notable difference with the AAP.

The new advisory committee has voted that people should only get influenza vaccines that are wrapped as unique doses and do not contain the conservative Thimérosal.

The AAP said that there is no evidence of prejudice to the conservative and that recommended doctors use any product of approved influenza vaccine that suits the patient.

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