CDC Panel Unanimously Votes to Add COVID Vaccine to List of Recommended Child Vaccinations

ABC: COVID-19 shots should be added to the lists of recommended vaccinations for kids and adults, a panel of U.S. vaccine experts said Thursday. The panel’s unanimous decision has no immediate effect — COVID-19 shots already are recommended for virtually all Americans. Rather, it would put the shots on the annually updated, formal lists of what vaccinations doctors should be routinely offering to their patients, alongside shots for polio, measles and hepatitis. The expert panel’s decisions are almost always adopted by the CDC director and then sent to doctors as part of the government’s advice on how to prevent disease (ABC). 

Ron DeSantis: As long as I am Governor, in Florida there will not be a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for children in our schools (Twitter). 

Axios: More than 20 states have already prohibited COVID vaccine from being required for students. California won’t mandate shots this school year. The earliest COVID-19 vaccines would be required for school attendance is July 1, 2023 (Axios).