The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Monday that they are no longer recommending the COVID-19 vaccination for all Americans, creating a major change in federal health policy.
The CDC’s new stance emphasizes the policy change as a “individual-based decision-making,” the release states, establishing that “the clinical decision to vaccinate should be based on patient characteristics that unlike age are difficult to incorporate in recommendations.”
“Informed consent is back,” Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill stated in the release. “CDC’s 2022 blanket recommendation for perpetual COVID-19 boosters deterred health care providers from talking about the risks and benefits of vaccination for the individual patient or parent. That changes today.”…