On Wednesday, May 28, the United States government made a significant change in its immunization health strategy by officially withdrawing the recommendation to vaccinate healthy minors already pregnant women against coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19.
Centers for disease control and prevention (CDCfor its acronym in English) they will no longer advise that health annual vaccines For all people over 6 months.
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced the change through its official social networks and cited the lack of data that support the vaccination of healthy children, so this measure is linked to His skepticism about the need to immunize childhood against that virus.
Robert Kennedy, who as Secretary of Health supervises all CDC, has repeatedly stated that children “hardly run any kind of risk with COVID-19 ”. However, although for many minors the disease can be inconsequentialin other cases it could lead to complications Serious.
What do the infectologists of the new measure say in the US?
Kennedy said that the objective of this new measure is to adjust health policies to the priorities of the Republican president Donald Trump: “In 2024, the former president Joe Biden He urged healthy children to receive another dose of the COVID-19 vaccine despite the lack of clinical data that supports the strategy, ”he added.
However, the infectologist Juan Carlos Cisnerosdeputy director of a hospital in Texas, mentioned that, although the COVID-19 vaccine does not have a totally clear indication in healthy children, the problem of this new measure is that Kennedy Jr. made the decision without consulting the specialized authorities In these issues.
“It is unacceptable to make a unilateral decision from a secretary of health in this type of considerations. To recommend a vaccine and give it to the population, it has to pass many steps, such as the elaboration of studies epidemiological and the opinion of several Advisors”Said the specialist Argentine who works in the US.
Given this situation, the infectologist demanded the participation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Capi), A committee within the centers for disease control and prevention in the US preventable for vaccination in the nation.
“To be able to evaluate a vaccine and then remove it from the offer to the population, you have to follow the same studies and the valuation of all who know. Not the opinion of someone who is only looking at the cost economic”Said Dr. Ricardo Teijeiro, a member of the Society of Infectology In the state of Arizona.
“You have to remember that the vaccine not only decreases the possibility of contagionbut also the probability of suffering Durable covida disease prolonged That is bringing disorders In people. That is also prevention. So I am against the way Secretary Kennedy is facing this, ”he concluded.
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