It was difficult for parents to make their children recently, as well as for many healthy adults, since the CDC did not weigh official guidelines for their management.
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Remi Suini-Garrette desperately wants her daughters to be vaccinated against the Covid-19. But so far it was impossible.
“I am very worried and disappointed,” says 34-year-old Suini Garrette, who lives in Seattle with his 9-year-old daughter Maksin and 18-month-old daughter Mave. “And yes, I'm angry.”
Suini-Garrett could not make her daughters shots, because the centers for the control and prevention of diseases have not yet released the final guidelines for their management. The rules are necessary for the federal Vaccines program for children To start the delivery of vaccines to doctors, healthcare departments and others. About half of us children have the right to pictures through the program.
“I am worried that my youngest daughter, in particular, should go to the hospital because she is subject to respiratory complications,” says Suini-Garrett. “And this is disappointing because I feel that it is under the control of people in our government.”
CDC delay is very unusual. As a rule, the CDC acts within a few days – sometimes the clock – out of the urgency of receipt of shots in weapons in front of the winter surge.
The delay created “a lot of confusion among the public and even among suppliers around the status,” says the doctor Susan KanzagraChief Medical Director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Care.
Suini-garter is far from one.
“We have parents every day ask for vaccines. They want a vaccine in a picata, ”says Dr. Elias Cashwoman, who is a doctor of the Suini-Garrett family. “And we don't have it. And we do not have ETA. We have nothing. We do not want the children to get sick. We have the opportunity to prevent this suffering. And we, as a society, blow him. ”
The CDC delay also forced adults to seek vaccination to continue navigation on often confusing and disappointing patchwork processing of state rules, which in many places complicated, if not impossible, so that they were also vaccinated. Despite the fact that many states took steps so that it was easier for people to get vaccines, some still require recipes, and some pharmacists still reject people who cannot document that they meet new requirements.
“This is a mess. And this is a random mess, ”says Dry ReissWhich is studying the vaccine policy at the University of California at San Francisco. “They decided not to take measures. I think this will damage public health, and the result will be larger than the Covid-19 and more harm from it. ”
The Ministry of Health and Social Services, which controls the CDC, did not immediately respond to NPR requests about comments or explanation.
This year, the deployment of vaccines with cycles was unusually chaotic from the very beginning. Until this year, any 6 months or older could be vaccinated with his pharmacist without a prescription. But for the first time this year, the Office for Control of Products and Medicines just approved new pictures For people who are at risk of serious complications from their age or health, causing wide confusion and disappointmentField
Then a powerful CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practicewhich the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy -Jr. gathered like-minded anti-vaccine members, Weighed near nuts and bolts to make them widely accessible.
After a stormy two -day meeting last month, the Kennedy committee recommended adding new hoop for vaccinationbut also took steps that could Make more people entitled to participateLet more pharmacists take pictures and start sending vaccines for children.
But the CDC has not yet accepted these recommendations – freezing everything in limbo.
“This is a critical part of accessible access,” says Kanzagra from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “This is a huge problem.”
And now, with a closed government, no one knows when the CDC can finally act or what the agency can do.
Officials are especially concerned about the upcoming winter respiratory cause.
“We do not know exactly how much it can be, but it can certainly be very bad,” the doctor says Philip HuangDirector of the Department of Health and Social Services in Dallas in Texas. “It is very disappointed. Our work has become more complicated, not easier. ”
