On Friday, the state of Florida started to allow children’s hospitals and doctors to book COVID vaccines for very young children. This is due to the pressure coming from the federal government and medical experts.
A group of experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agreed on the action on Saturday, and the agency’s leader also supported the policy. Vaccinations will begin next week.
Florida refused to allow medical stuff and institutions to order vaccines before June 14, which is the deadline for the first shipment of vaccines. On Monday, there will be no vaccines arriving in Florida. “The state of Florida intentionally missed multiple deadlines to order vaccines to protect its youngest kids,” said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator.
Doctors can order vaccines as long as they need. Dr. Lisa Gwynn, the president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an associate professor at the University of Miami, said the Florida Department of Health did not inform her that doctors can only order vaccines after being approved by F.D.A. “First they said providers could order directly from the federal government,” she noted. “That’s not true. We have to order through the state.”
The White House gave commendation on this policy change, referring to it as a “reversal” by Gov. Ron DeSantis. But the Florida government believed it did not reverse its position on vaccines for youngest children. It only permitted the distribution for kids after the Food and Drug Administration gave authorization on the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis had defended the state government’s refusal to preorder the vaccines. He said the children have no risk of getting any kind of infections.
But on Friday, a congressional subcommittee which supervises the coronavirus response had tried to convince the governor to change his mind.
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A group of experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agreed on the action on Saturday, and the agency’s leader also supported the policy. Vaccinations will begin next week.
Florida refused to allow medical stuff and institutions to order vaccines before June 14, which is the deadline for the first shipment of vaccines. On Monday, there will be no vaccines arriving in Florida. “The state of Florida intentionally missed multiple deadlines to order vaccines to protect its youngest kids,” said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator.
Doctors can order vaccines as long as they need. Dr. Lisa Gwynn, the president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an associate professor at the University of Miami, said the Florida Department of Health did not inform her that doctors can only order vaccines after being approved by F.D.A. “First they said providers could order directly from the federal government,” she noted. “That’s not true. We have to order through the state.”
The White House gave commendation on this policy change, referring to it as a “reversal” by Gov. Ron DeSantis. But the Florida government believed it did not reverse its position on vaccines for youngest children. It only permitted the distribution for kids after the Food and Drug Administration gave authorization on the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis had defended the state government’s refusal to preorder the vaccines. He said the children have no risk of getting any kind of infections.
But on Friday, a congressional subcommittee which supervises the coronavirus response had tried to convince the governor to change his mind.
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