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Covid Vaccines Shouldn’t Be ‘Routine’ for Kids
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The CDC’s latest guidelines could wind up lowering vaccination rates for truly dangerous diseases, like polio and measles. Dr. Vinay Prasad writes.
By Vinay Prasad, MD MPH
10.24.22
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On Thursday, the CDC’s advisory committee on vaccines voted unanimously—15 to 0—to add the Covid-19 vaccine to the country’s childhood immunization schedule. 

This schedule of vaccines—which includes the vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR); tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap); and inactivated polio—serves as the roadmap of routinely recommend…

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH
Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He previously served as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration.
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