CDC Group Endorses Adding COVID Shots to Recommended Vaccine Schedule

An advisory committee to the CDC voted last week in favor of adding the COVID vaccine to the recommended immunization schedule for children and adults. Children 6 months and older, as well as adults, should get the COVID vaccine, plus boosters, when they are eligible for it, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said in an unanimous vote. The decision to officially add COVID vaccination to the schedule now goes to the CDC. The agency is expected to sign off on the recommendation, but it is not required to do so. For example, the CDC added the HPV vaccine to the recommended schedule in 2006. Since then, just a handful of states and territories have mandated the vaccines for public school attendance. Learn more here.