The hope among vaccine proponents is that by September 2022, more youth vaccines will be fully approved and communities will have had more time to build buy-in from hesitant families. Already 17 states, mostly GOP-controlled, have passed legislation banning student Covid vaccine mandates - and one piece of litigation challenging vaccine requirements in California is now a contender for Supreme Court consideration.
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Most states have avoided calling for students to get vaccinated against Covid-19, and those that have, like California and Louisiana, have said rules won’t take effect until next school year, and then only if the vaccines receive full authorization by the FDA. Republicans, looking ahead to the midterms, are taking note. While the FDA maintains the vaccines, including those under emergency authorization, are safe and effective for children, many parents now say they worry about the expedited process and question whether it’s worth it for kids not at high risk of severe disease. Schools have mandated pediatric vaccinations for hundreds of years, but states and school districts have been fearful of provoking yet another polarized debate around public schools, following pandemic battles over school closures and masks. The slow-walking by the FDA has also set the stage for student vaccinations to become the next major Covid-related crisis for the Biden administration. Groups fighting vaccine mandates have taken advantage of the regulatory stall, preparing legal battles that heighten doubt not only in Covid-19 shots but also in public health and government more broadly. The FDA finally granted emergency authorization for Pfizer shots for those ages 5-11 in late October, but the vaccines are still not fully approved. That excessive wariness has dragged on as summer bled into fall, fall into winter, and winter into a new Covid spike from the omicron variant, which infected school-aged children at a much higher rate. “All of its institutional incentives therefore point toward excessive wariness.” won’t be blamed for avoidable Covid cases the same way it would be blamed for unexpected vaccine side effects,” she wrote. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg put the situation more bluntly. “There is no biological plausibility for serious adverse immunological or inflammatory events to occur more than two months after COVID-19 vaccine administration.” “We urge the FDA to carefully consider the impact of this decision on the timeline for authorizing a vaccine,” Beers wrote. Food and Drug Administration urging the agency to move faster and questioning its request for extra follow-up data before emergency authorization. adolescents ages 12-15 and the 28 million children ages 5-11.īack in early August, Lee Beers, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, sent a letter to the U.S.
It wasn’t supposed to take this long to fully approve Covid-19 vaccines for the nearly 17 million U.S.
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