With us health And the secretary of social services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Almedy shaking the federal policy of the federal vaccine, some states intervene to preserve access to rescue photos in anticipation of new changes.
The federal government has had a major influence on the vaccine policy through the Vaccination Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP), trained in 1964 to develop scientific recommendations on how vaccines should be used. The recommendations are almost always adopted by the centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in many states, these recommendations are linked to insurance coverage. If the AIPI no longer recommends certain vaccines, individuals are forced to pay the vaccines to have lived for a long time at no cost.
In a longtime anti-vaccine activist, Kennedy Announced in May That the CDC will no longer recommend the COVVI-19 plans for healthy children and pregnant women. In June, he made his 17 members in the ACIP and installed eight new members, including several criticisms against vaccines. “Clean scanning is necessary to restore public confidence in the scientific vaccine,” said Kennedy in a Agency.
At the first meeting of the new committee at the end of June, the members voted to recommend the ban on the Thimérosal Conservative of Flon vaccines. This decision has been largely symbolic because the Thimérosal has not been in any routine infant vaccine in the United States since 2001, the Thimérosal is only used in multi-dose bottles of the influence of vaccines, which represses a small percentage of all the folk vaccines given in the United States. Hhs Recommendation of the ACIP adopted in July.
Some states legislators are an overview of the more drastic changes in the recommendations of the federal vaccine. “Where there is a challenge here in states where there are legal requirements to follow the ACIP recommendations,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. Its center founded the Vaccine integrity project In April in response to the Kennedy vaccine agenda.
Colorado, a state with a democratic predominance, Legislation adopted During its last legislative session to protect access to vaccines, even if the federal directives change. The bill orders the Colorado Ministry of Health and the Environment to consider recommendations of vaccines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical organizations in addition to the ACIP. Previously, the ministry has only examined the ACIPS recomnations.
“We really wanted to make us take a scientific decision -maker in Colorado,” said representative Lindsay Gilchrist, a democrat who cost the bill.
Another Bill Colorado recently adopted Protects more broadcasting insurance of preventive health care insurance in the event of federal police changes. It gives State insurance agencies the power to restore directives on preventive care of federal agencies, including the AIPI, which existed in January 2025.
Maine Recently eliminate the reference to the AIPI In a law to allow its state health service to determine which plans should be available in the universal vaccination program. In New York, state senator Andrew Gounardes Introduces new legislation In June, this would send health insurance coverage for COVVI-19 vaccines. HAS The Massachusetts bill tabled in July By the Democratic Governor, Maura Healey, to the State Commissioner of the State, to determine the immunzations of childhood routine without having to consider exclusively the recommendations ACIP.