CDC Fails the American Public Again

On Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to place the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines on the official CDC schedule of recommended vaccines for both adults and children. The vote was unanimous, with board members expressing neither dissent nor skepticism. The CDC will likely officially approve adding the vaccine to the schedule.

On any other day, with any other vaccine, this would not be noteworthy. The CDC and other government agencies make decisions like this regularly, without any significant public objection or comment. But after over two years of the agency’s missteps, mistakes, and deceptions, the public noticed the event more than almost any other in the history of the CDC.

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Pradheep J. Shanker

Pradheep J. Shanker is a radiologist who focuses on health policy.

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On Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to place the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines on the official CDC schedule of recommended vaccines for both adults and children. The vote was unanimous, with board members expressing neither dissent nor skepticism. The CDC will likely officially approve adding the vaccine to the schedule.

On any other day, with any other vaccine, this would not be noteworthy. The CDC and other government agencies make decisions like this regularly, without any significant public objection or comment. But after over two years of the agency’s missteps, mistakes, and deceptions, the public noticed the event more than almost any other in the history of the CDC.