Medical groups will ask court to block new CDC vaccine recommendations
CNN • • health
Key Points:
- Six major medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, plan to ask courts to reverse the CDC’s new childhood vaccine recommendations and halt the upcoming meeting of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, ACIP.
- The updated CDC vaccine schedule narrows recommendations for meningococcal, hepatitis B, and hepatitis A vaccines to high-risk groups and advises shared clinical decision-making for flu, Covid-19, and rotavirus vaccines, diverging from previous universal recommendations.
- The new vaccine schedule changes were made without presenting new scientific evidence to ACIP and followed an order from President Trump to align U.S. vaccine schedules more closely with those of other developed nations, like Denmark.
- The medical groups criticize the current ACIP members appointed by HHS Secretary
