Kennedy’s vaccine committee plans to vote on COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox shots

New York (AP) -Ar Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccination admission committee is gathering this week and the Covid-19, Hepatitis B and Chickenpox are expected to change the suggestions of shots.

The exact questions that will be voted on Thursday and Friday in Atlanta are uncertain. Ministry of Health and Human Services officials did not answer immediately to questions looking for a newly published detail. agenda.

However, some public health experts are worried that votes will ask unjust questions about the vaccines in the minds of the parents.

Perhaps more consequently, a government program may be a vote that restricts the payment for vaccination for low -income families.

VanderBilt University Vaccines Specialist “I’m bored with the seat belt,” William Schaffner said.

Panel, vaccination applications advice to the Advisory Committee and Manager. Disease Control and Prevention Centers How to use already approved vaccines. The CDC directors have almost always accepted these suggestions by the doctors, which are widely taken into consideration by doctors and by guide vaccination programs.

Kennedy, an activist for a leading antivakcine before becoming the best health authority in the country, hot Earlier this year, the 17 -member panel and changed with a group of several anti-health sounds.

Take a look at the three vaccines discussed:

COVID-19

Before Kennedy became a health secretary, Acıp would typically vote for re -confirming the suggestions of firing millions of Americans against respiratory viruses that make millions of Americans sick every autumn and winter.

Last June, Kennedy’s Acıp voted Recommend their flu throwing For the Americans, but Covid-19 remained silent.

Before that meeting kennedy announced COVİD-19 was removed from CDC’s suggestions for healthy children and pregnant women. Movement was greatly criticized by doctors and public health organizations and a case By the American Academy of Pediatrics and other groups.

Days after Kennedy’s announcement, CDC officials said Families still get a version of 2024-2025 for their children, consulting their doctors. This statement meant that the federal government, which pays shooting for families who have no money or sufficient health insurance, would be within the scope of vaccines for children. Now every year, it is roughly responsible for half of childhood vaccines in the United States.

However, as in the flu shots, there are new Covid-19 formulations in every autumn to take into account the changes the strains circulate. The Committee has not yet voted for whether this season would propose COVİD-19 shots, or whether these shots should be handled by the VFC program.

It makes the picture even more complex: FDA last month licensed The Covid-19 shots of this autumn have taken the unusual step to narrow their use for healthy young adults and Children.

If Acıp follows it and if there is no additional explanatory language from the CDC, he said, “This will eliminate access to the rough half of America’s children, Dr. Sean O’leary.

The Pediatrician Group wants vaccines to continue for all children aged 6 months to 2 years.

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B can cause serious liver infections. In adults, the virus spreads with gender or by sharing needles during injection-drug use.

However, the virus can also be transferred from an infected mother to a baby and 90% of infected infants continue chronic infections.

A Hepatitis B vaccine was first licensed in the USA in 1981. In 1991, Acıp proposed a dose for all infants who were at least 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms), within 24 hours after birth.

Baby vaccines are emphasized for hepatitis B or most importantly for women who are not tested. Studies are effective in preventing chronic hepatitis B infections.

Newborn hepatitis B vaccines are considered successful, and no refereed research in the near future shows children any security problems with shooting on the early days of life.

However, Kennedy’s ACIP members claimed that they wanted to visit the guidance again in June.

Schaffner said that health authorities trust in the scanning of mothers before birth, but many cases were kidnapped.

“There was a lot of failure,” he said. “And so there were transmissions from the mother to the child.”

MMRV

Chicisepox was once a widespread childhood distress and caused an itchy skin rash and fire.

However, it can also lead to complications such as skin infections, skin infections, swelling of the brain and pneumonia. Severe cases are more common among young people and adults who take it for the first time. Virus – is called varicella – also in life can be re -activated later and can cause painful disease called zone.

The government first proposed that all children receive a united mind vaccine in 1995, which led to a dramatic decline in cases and deaths.

In 2006, a combination MMRV shoot – measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox – licensed. The CDC initially suggested that doctors and parents use combined shooting over separate MMR and chickenpox injections.

However, in a few years, studies have shown that children with combination developed more often in a rash, fever and – rare cases – developing seizures after vaccination.

Acıp in 2009 Changed his adviceIt was accepted for the first dose to remove the preferential language and say combination or separate shots.

Today, pediatric experts, today, most pediatrician proposes separate doses for the first shot, but the second dose of a combined shot, he says.

Again, there is no new evidence about the damages caused by O’leary, MMRV shootings from AAP.

Why should you visit again now?

“This version of Acıp is an effort for bread for bread,” he said.

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