CDC Recommends Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine for Children 5 to 11 Years

Today, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that children 5 to 11 years old be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine. CDC now expands vaccine recommendations to about 28 million children in the United States in this age group and allows providers to begin vaccinating them as soon as possible.

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New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection

Today, CDC published <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm?s_cid=mm7044e1_w">new science</a> reinforcing that vaccination is the best protection against COVID-19. In a new <em>MMWR</em> examining more than 7,000 people across 9 states who were hospitalized with COVID-like illness, CDC found that those who were unvaccinated and had a recent infection were 5 times more likely to have COVID-19 than those..

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CDC Updates Blood Lead Reference Value for Children

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/data/blood-lead-reference-value.htm">blood lead reference value (BLRV)</a> from 5 µg/dL to 3.5 µg/dL in response to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/advisory/lepac.htm">Lead Exposure Prevention and Advisory Committee (LEPAC)</a> recommendation made on May 14, 2021.

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