Mass. releases COVID-19 vaccine guidance day before CDC vaccine meeting

Children between six months and 23 months “should receive” the vaccine, while healthy children and healthy adults “may receive” the shot, according to Mass. health officials.

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The day before the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee is expected to meet, Massachusetts released its own guidance, recommending that children under the age of six months to 23 months and all adults to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

The state Department of Public Health released this year’s recommendations Wednesday ahead of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ meeting in Atlanta Thursday and Friday. CDC officials are expected to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, discussing the Hepatitis B, combined measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, and COVID vaccines, the agenda says…

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