In October, the CDC updated its Covid vaccine guidance<\/a>, recommending the shots for adults 65 and older after they consult a doctor or pharmacist. Previously, the shots were recommended for everyone 6 months and older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s vaccine chief, told staff in a memo<\/a> that an internal review found that at least 10 children died \u201cafter and because of receiving\u201d the Covid shot. The agency hasn\u2019t publicly released the findings or published them in a peer-reviewed journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this month, the FDA rejected Moderna\u2019s application<\/a> to review an mRNA-based flu vaccine \u2014 though it later reversed course<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dorit Reiss, a vaccine policy expert at the University of California Law San Francisco, said the panel does not typically focus on vaccine injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVaccine injuries are not a direct part of the committee\u2019s mandates,\u201d Reiss said in an email. \u201cWhen they make vaccine recommendations, they should consider vaccines risks, and new risks may lead to changed recommendations; but that\u2019s not directly about vaccine injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The panel does consider risks: In 2021, the CDC convened the advisory panel<\/a> to discuss emerging reports of a rare side effect, called myocarditis, in teen boys and young adult men after getting an mRNA Covid shot. The panel later weighed<\/a> whether to space out the first and second doses of the vaccine in younger people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reiss said she expects the panel could do one of two things: further narrow its recommendation for Covid vaccines or call for changes to the vaccine\u2019s label to highlight risks, though label changes are typically handled by the FDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced its withdrawal as a liaison group for ACIP, citing concerns about \u201crecent changes that undermine the committee\u2019s scientific integrity and evidence-based approach to vaccine policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to Covid vaccine injuries, the panel will also discuss long Covid and \u201cACIP recommendation methodology\u201d at its meeting next month, according to the Federal Register notice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The committee intends to revisit vaccine safety questions, it has an obligation to do so transparently and rigorously, Given past misstatements, members do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,938,972,973,974,607,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policies-politics","category-safety","category-vaccine-enhanced-disease","category-vaccine-failure","category-vaccine-long-term-safety","category-vaccine-news","category-vaccine-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14386,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/14386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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