NEW: CDC advisory committee votes in favor of adding the Covid vaccine to the recommended immunization schedule for children and adults.
The decision to officially add Covid vaccination to the schedule now goes to the CDC. The agency is expected to sign off on the recommendation, but it is not required to do so.
"Moving Covid-19 to the recommended immunization schedule does not impact what vaccines are required for, if any," Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said during Thursday's ACIP meeting."Local control matters. And we honor that the decision around school entrance for vaccines rests where it did before, which is with the state level, the county level and at the municipal level, if it exists at all.
The immunization schedule is the"gold standard" meant to help clinicians determine which vaccines they should recommend and when, said Dr. Julie Morita, executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Morita is also a former public health commissioner for Chicago and a former practicing pediatrician.
The CDC's recommended vaccination schedule also provides guidance to insurance providers, which tend to cover vaccines on the list. That will be important next year, when federal funds to cover Covid vaccines are expected to run out, and the burden will shift to the private market.
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