The World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization is removing "Healthy children and adolescents" from its default recommendations for primary series and booster shots, according to an official "Highlights" summary from its meetings the week of March 20.
Countries simply get less bang for the buck for COVID vaccination in low-risk populations compared to more important inoculations that have fallen off a cliff since COVID seized the world's attention, SAGE said in a related statement.
The revisions are starkly at odds with the newly updated U.S. childhood immunization schedule, which includes 3-4 doses of COVID vaccines for all children starting at 6 months old and is widely used by K-12 school districts to guide their own enrollment mandates.
The agency's basic competence and reliability came under scrutiny in a new analysis led by University of California San Francisco epidemiologists that found 25 basic statistical and numerological errors in CDC public communications and data sources such as its widely cited COVID data tracker.
One of the authors of the CDC critique, clinical trial specialist Vinay Prasad, shared the shocked reaction of Danes to his description of U.S. vaccine policy - particularly college booster mandates - on a recent trip to Denmark to give medical lectures.
Even the most anti-Trump bastions in America seem to be reconsidering their enthusiasm for COVID vaccine mandates, with some exceptions.
Perhaps the most resistant setting for the relaxation of COVID vaccine mandates - higher education - is also relenting.
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