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Vaccine Recommendations Revisited: How Do They Get Their Cosmic Rays, and Where Do They Go?

The downgrading of COVID vaccine recommendations comes soon after the administration made changes that could dramatically restrict the availability of the next round of COVID boosters. It will be necessary for the government to add testing for the vaccines to be approved for use by anyone besides people who are at risk of catching COVID because they are over the age of 65.

Some insurance companies may no longer pay for them, says Richard Hughes, a former executive at the vaccine company Moderna, who now teaches healthcare law and policy at George Washington University. He says to expect variability in coverage, before authorization and out-of-pocket costs.

The decision will make it much harder for parents to get their children vaccinated and for pregnant people to get the shots, O’Leary says. He says that it’s difficult for clinicians to have a conversation in a short office visit, and that with the recommendation of vaccines being loosened, fewer doctors’ offices may choose to keep the vaccine on hand.

Public health experts are alarmed by how the changes were made. The CDC’s vaccine advisory committee goes public in a fairly transparent manner, according to Dr. Sean O’Leary, who is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “The data are shared publicly, the discussion happens publicly and then they come to a decision on how to recommend vaccines.”

COVID Vaccine for Pregnant Women Has Been Removed from the CDC Recommended Immunization Scheduling Schedule: “It’s Hard to Get Through the Process“

The analysis found that when pregnant and recently pregnant women were exposed to COvid, they were more likely to die, be on intensive care, and have a similar health profile as other women. This was prior to the availability of vaccines.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that as of today the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule,” Kennedy said in the video, “We’re now one step closer to realizing President Trump’s promise to make America healthy again.”

“The process to reach the recommendation raises serious worries about the stability of the nation’s immunization infrastructure and commitment by federal leaders to make sure families can accesscritical immunizations, whether for COVID or other infectious diseases,” said Krassly.

But because the vaccine gives a pregnant woman’s immune system a boost by increasing neutralizing antibodies, virologist Rasmussen is confident that getting one while pregnant makes it less likely a pregnant woman will end up in the hospital if she gets COVID.

The David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA has an infectious diseases program directed by Dr. Neil Silverman. He sees more bad outcomes in pregnant patients with the drug. The risk of severe COVID fluctuated as new variants arose and vaccinations became available, Silverman said, but the threat is still meaningful.

A request for comment regarding the scientific literature that supports COVID vaccination for pregnant women sent to HHS’s Public Affairs office elicited an unsigned email unrelated to the question. When asked for a comment, the office did not reply.

Immune suppression is important to keep the developing fetus from being attacked by the mother’s body. “While the mother does still have a functioning immune system, it’s not functioning at full capacity,” she added.

Being pregnant also changes how the immune system works, as well as making women more likely to have blood clot. The risk of that will be increased if they contract COVID, according to the chair of children’s medicine.

The virus that causes COVID can affect the vascular endothelium – specialized cells that line blood vessels and help with blood flow, Rasmussen said. In a healthy person, the endothelium helps keep the cardiovascular system functioning by making chemicals that keep the blood flowing. In a person infected with COVID, the balance is thrown off and the production of those molecules is disrupted, which research shows can lead to blood clots or other blood disorders.

Mary Prahl, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, said that it is harder for blood to carry oxygen and nutrients to a baby when the placenta is inflammatory.

It makes sense that we see the effects of COVID in the placenta, Silverman said. “The placenta is nothing more than a hyper-specialized collection of blood vessels, so it is like a magnetic target for the virus.”

The immunity many people have developed may help change the connection between stillbirth and COVID. She would like to see more research done there.

Prahl co-authored a small, early study that found no adverse outcomes and showed antibody protection persisted for both the mother and the baby after birth. “What we learned very quickly is that pregnant individuals want answers and many of them want to be involved in research,” she said. Later studies, including one published in the journal Nature Medicine showing that getting a booster in pregnancy cut newborn hospitalizations in the first four months of life, backed up her team’s early findings.

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She blamed the delay on the scaling back of federal efforts to track COVID. She said that a lot of the data was pulled back. The money that is used to track COV is being cut by the Trump administration.

Newborns are protected from vaccine-Related diseases after birth if a pregnant woman gets a COVID vaccine. Women who are pregnant get the vaccine for their babies.

Nearly one in 20 infants hospitalized with COvid require a ventilator and 1 in 5 of them require intensive care.

I don’t want to be that doctor who just says, ‘Well, it’s really important.’ You have to vaccinate yourself and your kids no matter what, even if you have to pay for it out of pocket,’ because everyone has their own priorities and budgetary concerns, especially in the current economic climate,” Silverman said. “I can’t tell a family that the vaccine is more important than feeding their kids.”

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