Submitted by Julie Steenhuysen
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the Health Secretary of the Chicago (Reuters) Health Secretary Federal changes in vaccine policy encourage medical organizations and several states to formulate their vaccine recommendations for the fall of the respiratory tract disease associated with many healthy children, and pregnant women may lose access to preventive shots.
According to health experts, the risk of increasing confusion between service providers and patients, determined by the alternative standard established by the Federal Government.
It also undertakes to against hundreds of laws at the national level, which depend on the Federal Vaccine Advisory Commission, experts said. Advisory Immunization Practice Committee or ACIP advises US Disease Control and Prevention Centers for people to receive vaccines and at what intervals after they are approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Kennedy spent decades of doubt about vaccines even when contradictory to scientific evidence. Since the president of the Republican President Donald Trump has appointed the US Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, Kennedy has changed the federal government process recommended by the American society.
Last month, Kennedy fired all 17 ACIP members, replacing them with hand -chosen advisers, including vaccine activists. Before that, Kennedy withdrew the federal recommendation for Covido shots for pregnant women and healthy children without a deposit of an Acip, saying that there is not enough evidence to support these amplifiers for healthy children.
“Will not happen”
The leading US Medical Organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, known as the AAP, and the American Society of Infectious Diseases, called IDSA, filed a lawsuit against Kennedy for Covido’s decision.
The AAP said it would promote the evidence -based vaccine guidelines, starting with the fall of the respiratory season Covid, flu and respiratory syncytite virus or RSV.
“We simply cannot or silence, because the system we trust is deliberately dismantled,” said Academy President dr. Sue kressly.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, called ACOG, also creates guidelines for the upcoming respiratory disease season, which will be spent in August or September. ACOG spokesman said the organization continues to recommend Covidide vaccines for pregnant women, a group of severe covidides and pregnancy complications.
The spokesman also stated that the organization rejects the Kennedy Vaccine Commission recommendation against the flu shots containing Thimerosal-Gyvsidabri-containing preservatives, which long-skeptics skeptics tried to associate with autism, despite evidence that these vaccines are safe.
Both organizations and several others, including IDSA, cooperate with the vaccine integrity project. Public Health and Infectious Disease Experts have been developed due to concern for changes in vaccine policy to review the latest scientific evidence of licensed vaccines for their guidelines.
“What we are trying to do is add biased, authoritative review of the (Medical) Society,” said dr. Michael Osterholm, a director of the Center for Infectious Diseases of Minnesota University in Minnesota University, who worked as an advisor to former democratic President Joe Biden.
The HHS spokesman defended Kennedy’s actions, saying that the newly configured commission brings a “fresh, independent scientific decision” and that ACIP will continue to be a law established by the law leading immunization policies in the country. “
“It’s the mind to quench”
Jen Cats, a senior analyst at KFF, a non -profit health policy organization, said the US states have always maintained the basis of health policy. However, according to cats, having several entities providing vaccine recommendations at national and federal level may find it difficult for parents to know what to trust.
“This correction can be even more pronounced with a significant impact on health. State laws and requirements may vary, but pathogens do not follow the borders,” Kates said.
ACIP’s recommendations since its foundation in 1964 The laws were included throughout the US, which regulate health insurance, access to vaccines for children with low income families, school vaccination, pharmacists’ ability to administer vaccines and vaccinations in some states.
“When comparing ACIP, when you compare how much things are affected,” said Rebecca Coyle, which goes to the American Immunization Register Association, the Executive Director, and as an ACIP advisor, which develops and renews vaccination information systems used by doctors.
Analysis of the State and Territorial Health Officials Association found that nearly 600 statutes and regulations 49 out of 50 US states, three US territories and Washington, DC, references to Acip recommendations.
Several states have already taken action.
Wisconsin said she continues to recommend the current Covid vaccine during pregnancy and for each age 6 months and older and noted that the Medicaid state health program for low -income people will continue to cover the right people. The governors of California, Washington State and Oregon Democrats condemned Kennedy by dismissing the ACIP commission members, referring to their “serious concern” about the integrity and transparency of future federal vaccines.
These states have said that Covid vaccines for children for 6 months and older and pregnant women will continue to recommend Covid vaccines, taking into account the main US medical associations.
Some states have begun to rewrite the statutes that it is no longer possible to delay only Acip. For example, Colorado amended laws by incorporating vaccine recommendations from the main medical societies, without ACIP, establishing the immunization policy of state students.
Massachusetts legislators are considering laws proposed by Democratic Governor Maura Healey to allow the Commissioner for State Public Health to determine normal child immunization instead of ACIP recommendations. Maine lawmakers have removed links to ACIP from the State Access Access Access.
Osterholm said health insurers told the vaccine integrity project that they were more likely to cover the same vaccine recommendations by increasing pressure from different groups.
“We have to handle the best we can,” Osterholm said, but “we can’t leave ACIP or HHS recommendations as the only source of another.”
(Julie Steenhuysen Messages; Edited by Michele Gershberg and Will Dunham)