Excerpt of the Oct. 19th ACIP Meeting - covid 19 vaccines

“ can I just ask Dr. Romero to just clarify that again that it would not be a mandate this would not be something that because it’s covered by the VFC that schools would mandate. it would not be..yeah..can you just elaborate on that to help us out?”

“right, so so again let me state the 2nd part what I said which is this is an ACCESS issue. This is an issue to allow children that don’t have insurance to gain access to this vaccine. it’s particularly important as we move onto commercialization of the vaccine. it is not it is not listing this as a routine vaccine forced children to enter school and it is not a change in our policy for these Vaccines for these routine vaccines in children. *whispers* “right, and as dr Cohn is telling me and again reminding me which you should all know is that CDC doesn’t make state recommendations for vaccination, right. That is a state issue about what vaccines are required for school attendance, right? So that’s another issue totally separate from this.”