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Board to draft interim vaccine guidance as state and clinical groups refine recommendations
Summary
With recent federal advisory changes and several professional societies preparing guidance, the board asked staff to draft a public statement encouraging eligible residents to seek COVID and other respiratory vaccines and to reconvene virtually to finalize recommendations.
Faced with shifting federal advisory language and an imminent set of clinical recommendations, the Needham Board of Health asked staff to draft an interim public statement encouraging eligible residents to consider COVID-19 and other respiratory virus vaccinations and to schedule a short virtual meeting in mid-August to finalize board messaging.
Staff described recent national developments: Secretary of Health and Human Services' personnel changes and the ACIP reconstitution led to updates in CDC guidance that place some COVID-19 vaccination decisions for healthy children and…
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