The CDC has officially approved COVID boosters for kids ages 5 to 11 at least 5 months after receiving their first shots.
At the request of CDC staff, ACIP members considered whether there should be a softer wording for this recommendation, stating that children in this age group “may” receive a booster. This kind of phrasing would better reflect uncertainty about the course of COVID in the months ahead and would allow flexibility for a stronger recommendation in the fall.
They also said nearly 40% of parents in rural areas reported that their children’s pediatricians did not recommend COVID“People will hear the word ‘m-a-y’ as ‘m-eh’,” said Patricia Stinchfield, RN, who served as the liaison for National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners to ACIP. “I think we need to add urgency” to efforts to increase use of COVID vaccinations.
Sandra Fryhofer, MD, the American Medical Association's liaison to ACIP, stressed the add-on benefits from more widespread vaccination of children against COVID. Fryhoner said she serves adults in her practice as an internal medicine doctor with many of her patients being at high risk for complications from COVID.
The data emerging so far suggested COVID vaccines will become a three-dose medicine, as is already accepted for other shots like hepatitis B vaccine, Fryhofer said.
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