ITASCA, Il. — For the first time in 30-years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is diverging their recommendations away from the Centers for Disease Control’s stance on vaccines for children.
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed at the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, the CDC has changed it’s stance on vaccinating children. Under the new recommendations from May, the CDC is no longer saying that children 6-months to two years old “should be” vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine or the seasonal flu shot. Instead it’s saying that all adults 65 years and older “should be” vaccinated for COVID-19 and the flu.
Now the American Academy of Pediatrics is diverting away from the CDC recommendation by still recommending that children of all ages should get vaccinated and immunized for both influenza and COVID-19.
Milwaukee Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Totoraitus talked with WTMJ earlier this year about the eventual distancing of the CDC from professional medical organizations.
“I think the national concern is how is this going to effect the availability of effective vaccines locally because obviously the CDC vaccine advisory board, they set the national standards for what are approved typically by insurers for vaccines and the set the recommendation for mandated vaccines at schools,” said Dr. Totoraitus. “I think it is entirely possible that we may come to a point in the near future where we say we don’t trust what the CDC is saying.”
The CDC vaccine advisory board still has not addressed its findings for the COVID-19 vaccine, but any recommendation for removing the vaccine would be a major impact for millions of Americans that rely on on immunizations.
