Pediatrics group's COVID vaccine recommendations differ from CDC advice

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The American Academy of Pediatrics is sharing new vaccine recommendations that, for the archetypal clip successful 30 years, disagree from U.S. authorities advice. 

In the guidance published Tuesday, the AAP is "strongly recommending" COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 2 years old. For older children, shots are besides advised but up to parents' discretion, the AAP said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's proposal is different. Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s guidance, the CDC doesn't urge COVID-19 shots for steadfast children of immoderate age. Instead, the medication says kids whitethorn get the shots successful consultation with physicians.

In a quality release Tuesday, AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly, said the organization's immunization recommendations volition proceed to beryllium "rooted successful science" and successful the "best involvement of the wellness of infants, children and adolescents."

"Pediatricians cognize however important regular puerility immunizations are successful keeping children, families and their communities steadfast and thriving," Kressly said. 

Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News aesculapian contributor and editor-at-large for nationalist wellness astatine KFF Health News, told "CBS Mornings Plus" connected Tuesday that there's "a batch of sound retired there" erstwhile it comes to vaccines. 

"Parents should truly instrumentality the people and marque definite that their children get each of the regular puerility vaccinations," she said, adding much announcements are expected from different nonrecreational societies successful the coming weeks.

Gounder added AAP's recommendations are truly conscionable reaffirming what they've antecedently advised. 

"The archetypal brushwood with COVID should beryllium with the shot, not with the virus," she said. "There is inactive a precise precocious hazard successful younger children, peculiarly 6 months to 2 years, for hospitalization and terrible complications if they get COVID."

The AAP's recommendations besides included guidance for RSV, oregon respiratory syncytial virus, and flu vaccines.

For RSV, the APP recommends immunizations for infants younger than 8 months aged who aren't protected via a vaccine from the large parent, and for children 8 to 19 months aged astatine precocious hazard of terrible infection. 

For the flu, the AAP recommends yearly vaccines for each children starting astatine 6 months old, unless they person a aesculapian crushed that would forestall them from getting the vaccine. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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