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Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access | A push to require prescriptions for every COVID shot failed in a split vote.
A push to require prescriptions for every COVID shot failed in a split vote.
In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost. Data continue to show that the COVID-19 vaccines protect against emergency department and urgent care visits among children and adults, as well as hospitalizations and critical illness in people aged 65 and older.
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