States are moving to protect the access to vaccines

With the US health Human Services Minister Robert F. Kennedy, who is currently shaking the federal vaccine policy, some states are expecting more changes to maintain access to savior photos.

The federal government has historically had a major impact on the vaccine policy through the Consulting Committee on Vaccination Methods (ACIP), formed in 1964 to prepare scientific recommendations on how to use vaccines. These recommendations have been almost always adopted by disease control and prevention centers, and in many states, these recommendations are tied to insurance coverage. If ACIP does not recommend any specific vaccines, people can have to pay out of their pockets for life vaccines that have been prepared for a long time and at no cost.

Kennedy announced in May that a long-standing anti-vaccine activist announced in May that the CDC would no longer recommend COVID-19 photos for healthy children and pregnant women. In June, he fired all 17 sitting ACIP members and installed eight new members, some of whom are very important to the vaccine. “A clean vacuum cleaner is essential to restore public self -esteem in the science of vaccine,” Kennedy said in a statement.

At the first meeting of the new committee at the end of June, members voted to recommend the Thimerosal preservation for the flu vaccines. The move was largely symbolic because Thimerosal has not been in any childhood vaccine in the United States since 2001. Despite the fact that it has been shown, it was eliminated due to the growth of public reactions. Now, Thimerosal is used only in some multi -doses of influenza vaccine, which shows a small percentage of total influenza vaccines offered in the United States. HHS accepted the ACIP recommendation in July.

Some state lawmakers predict more severe changes in federal vaccine recommendations. “Where there is a challenge here, there are legal requirements to follow acip recommendations,” says Michael Ostermolm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Policy at the University of Minnesota. In response to the Kennedy vaccine agenda, his center established a vaccine integrity project in April.

Colorado, a predominantly democratic country, approved its last legislative session to protect the vaccines even if the federal instructions changed. The bill guides the Ministry of Health and the General Environment of Colorado to consider the recommendations of the American Child Academy Academy and other medical organizations in addition to ACIP. Previously, this section only considered ACIP recommendations.

“We really wanted to make sure that we make scientific decisions in Colorado,” says Lindsi Gilcharist’s representative, Democrat, who raises the bill.

Another recently approved Colorado bill protects insurance coverage for preventive health care if federal policies change. It gives state insurance agencies to restore preventive care guidelines from federal agencies, including ACIP, which existed in January 2025.

Mine has recently eliminated the ACIP reference in a law to empower its State Department of Health to determine what photos should be available through a global vaccination program. In New York, the Andrew Gwards state senator in June enacted new laws that require health insurance coverage for the COVID-19 vaccine. The Massachusetts bill in July by the Democratic Governor, Trans -Hayley, allows the State Public Health Commissioner to determine the daily childhood immunizations without exclusively requires ACIP recommendations.