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The CDC still hasn’t issued COVID vaccine guidelines, leaving access in limbo
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TPR: The Public's Radio
It’s been hard for parents to get their kids COVID shots recently, as well as for many healthy adults, since the CDC hasn’t weighed in with official guidelines for administering them.
“I’m very worried, and frustrated,” says Sweeney-Garrett, 34, who lives in Seattle with her 9-year-old daughter Maxine and 18-month-old daughter Maeve.
The rules are necessary for the federal Vaccines for Children Program to start shipping the vaccines to doctors, health departments and others.
Typically, the CDC acts within days – sometimes hours – because of the urgency of getting shots into arms before the winter surge.
“This is a critical piece of enabling downstream access,” says Kansagra of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.