Thread by @MaryanneDemasi

While America panics, Europe quietly recalibrates Covid-19 vaccine policy
ATT: @SecKennedy @HHS_Jim @RandPaul @SenBillCassidy
From Sweden to the UK to Australia, countries are narrowing Covid-19 vaccine policies without controversy. So why the panic in the US?

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The medical establishment has ramped up the rhetoric against @SecKennedy over narrowing Covid-19 vaccine policy. In @nytimes, 9 former @CDCgov directors warned that his decisions mean “children risk losing access to lifesaving vaccines.”

But US policy is only bringing American practice closer to what Europe has already done.

As of Sept 1, Sweden 🇸🇪no longer recommends Covid-19 vaccination for children unless an individual medical assessment finds they are at increased risk of severe disease.
Even then, it is only available with a doctor’s prescription.

UK has also tightened eligibility as it heads into autumn, limiting Covid boosters to people over 75, nursing-home residents, and those with weakened immune systems.

Its guidance notes that “in the current era of high population immunity to Covid-19, additional Covid-19 doses provide very limited, if any, protection against infection and any subsequent onward transmission of infection.”

In May, the Australia, Dept of Health quietly updated its advice: healthy children & adolescents under 18 without medical conditions no longer need the Covid-19 vaccine.

There was no press conference, no ministerial statement, no media blitz. And most notably, no outrage from the medical establishment. blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/australia-qu…

Ex-CDC @dr_demetre intensified attacks claiming he “only sees harm coming” for America’s children as ACIP might “try to change the birth dose,” of Hep B vaccine, arguing that public health only gets “one bite of that apple” to vaccinate newborns.

But several advanced European programs already DO NOT give a universal Hep B shot on Day 1.

The way forward is not to alarm Americans with talk of bans or lost access to vaccines. It is to deliver risk-based, evidence-driven advice - as peer nations already do - and to be candid about uncertainty.

The new ACIP is here to do that.

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