Nebraska COVID-19 circumstances declined barely final week, persevering with a gentle case decline that started in late August.
A advice by a federal advisory panel that the COVID-19 vaccine be included in subsequent yr’s checklist of advisable vaccines for teenagers doesn’t imply kids must get the photographs to attend college, Nebraska’s chief medical officer mentioned Thursday.
The federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices voted Thursday to suggest that the vaccines be included within the 2023 immunization schedule and within the Vaccines for Youngsters program, a program that gives vaccines for gratis to kids who won’t in any other case be vaccinated.
Dr. Gary Anthone mentioned in an announcement issued Thursday by the Nebraska Division of Well being and Human Providers that the CDC nonetheless should approve each suggestions, which it has not but achieved.
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Even when the company approves the suggestions, Nebraska is not going to require a toddler to get vaccinated for COVID-19 to attend college, he mentioned.
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“The State of Nebraska establishes vaccine necessities, not ACIP or CDC,” Anthone mentioned within the assertion.
The CDC, too, clarified in an announcement Thursday that the company “solely makes suggestions to be used of vaccines, whereas school-entry vaccination necessities are decided by state or native jurisdictions.”
A spokesman for the Nebraska well being company mentioned employees there had obtained some calls from involved mother and father concerning the advice.
On Tuesday, Fox Information host Tucker Carlson erroneously claimed on Twitter that the CDC was set to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for kids.
If the CDC adopts the advisory committee’s suggestions, Anthone mentioned, it will put the COVID-19 vaccine in the identical class as flu photographs and HPV vaccines. These vaccines are advisable for teenagers however aren’t required by many faculties.
“I encourage mother and father to seek the advice of with their kid’s doctor concerning the advantages of receiving the vaccine as they make their very own choices,” Anthone mentioned.
This report incorporates materials from the Related Press.
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