Posted on 08/23/2025 6:36:34 AM PDT by DoodleBob
For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations.
The group’s new COVID-19 recommendations — released Tuesday — come amid a tumultuous year for public health, as vaccine skeptics have come into power in the new Trump administration and government guidance has become increasingly confusing.
This isn't going to help, acknowledged Dr. James Campbell, vice chair of the AAP infectious disease committee.
“It is going to be somewhat confusing. But our opinion is we need to make the right choices for children to protect them,” he added.
The AAP is strongly recommending COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 2 years. Shots also are advised for older children if parents want their kids vaccinated, the AAP said.
That differs from guidance established under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which doesn't recommend the shots for healthy children of any age but says kids may get the shots in consultation with physicians.
Children ages 6 months to 2 years are at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19, and it was important that recommendations continue to emphasize the need for them to get vaccinated, said Campbell, a University of Maryland infectious diseases expert.
Vaccinations also are recommended for older children who have chronic lung diseases or other conditions that put them at higher risk for severe disease, the AAP said.
The 95-year-old Itasca, Illinois-based organization has issued vaccination recommendations for children since the 1930s. In 1995, it synced its advice with recommendations made by the federal government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There have been a few small differences between AAP and CDC recommendations since then. For example, the AAP has advised that children get HPV vaccinations starting at age 9; the CDC says that's OK but has emphasized vaccinations at ages 11 and 12.
But in 30 years, this is the first time the recommendations have differed “in a significant or substantial way,” Campbell said.
Until recently, the CDC — following recommendations by infectious disease experts — has been urging annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans ages 6 months and older.
But in May, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. A few days later, the CDC issued language that healthy children may get the shots, but that there was no longer a “should” recommendation.
The idea that healthy older kids may be able to skip COVID-19 boosters has been brewing for some time among public health experts. As the COVID-19 pandemic has waned, experts have increasingly discussed the possibility of focusing vaccination efforts on people 65 and older — who are among those most as risk for death and hospitalization.
A CDC expert panel in June was set to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among the options the panel was considering was whether suggest shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.
But Kennedy bypassed the group, and also decided to dismiss the 17-member panel and appoint his own, smaller panel, that included vaccine skeptics. Kennedy also later excluded the AAP, the American Medical Association and other top medical organizations from working with the advisers to establish vaccination recommendations.
Kennedy's new vaccine panel has yet to vote on COVID-19 shot recommendations.
The panel did endorse continuing to recommend fall flu vaccinations, but also made a decision that led to another notable difference with the AAP.
The new advisory panel voted that people should only get flu vaccines that are packaged as single doses and do not contain the preservative thimerosal.
The AAP said there is no evidence of harm from the preservative, and recommended doctors use any licensed flu vaccine product that's appropriate for the patient.
As for the claim that “Children ages 6 months to 2 years are at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19,” even the old CDC data shows that children have a significantly LOWER risk of hospitalization and death from COVID. And they wonder why we distrust them.
Ping of interest
Haven’t they killed enough with this poison?
With the verified information available now as to how dangerous the jabs are to all body systems & the fact that the risks far outweigh any rewards, anyone administering COVID jabs is potentially committing premeditated homicide. That the jabs & indeed the entire MRNA platform have not been pulled off the market is criminal.
So now I think I know WHY I don’t believe doctors. Can anyone ASK the pediatricians HOW MANY young children were at high risk of death with the COVID threat! And on the other hand, HOW MANY children had vaccine injuries. My grandson is a paraplegic, forever destined to be bedfast after his COVID shot.
Their donors are the pharma companies. They’re whores.
Oh, how awful. I’m so sorry.
Your infants first.
No kids?
Didn’t think so.
Even during the pandemic doctors were saying children were low risk of getting Covid or having bad cases if it if they got it.
This organization and the AMA are notoriously left-wing.
We are so lucky to have vaccines against polio, tetanus, etc.
But by recommending mRNA Covid shots, these idiots are throwing doubt on all their vaccine recommendations. It’s just crazy.
Pure evil.
Yes, but not enough for them.
They put out these horrid drugs that are either lifetime drugs or exceedingly difficult or impossible to get off of.
Gotta keep the gravy train going. If they can keep people chronically sick, needing their treatments, they have an endless supply of money coming in.
They are completely sold off to pharma cash. Disgusting.
It’s not all that uncommon, actually, for a medical Society (TMA, AAOS, AUA, etc.) to diverge from AMA & CMS.
It is very uncommon to see them diverge from CDC. This is huge, and it’s very sad to see.
We know vaccines are contraindicated in children, we’ve been told this from the start, so why the push? Don’t answer that - we all know why.
Civil Disobedience, here we come.
The Shocking Truth About Vaccines - Dr. Eric Berg, DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaeDMp4mIQ
Check comments below the video. Here are a few:
“My first two children were vaccinated and had bad reactions my third no vaccines and perfectly healthy.”
“I have extreme trust issues 😩 I home school and one of the top 3 reasons is the fact that I refuse to let them pump my children full of chemicals.”
Adding insult to injury - there has NEVER been an effective mRNA shot for anything. Nothing. No where.
Just see the “common cold” as your prime example.
This is obscene.
The AAP is not to be trusted with the health of U.S.’ children. They are gung ho on so called “gender affirmative” care, including mutilations.
How about no?
AAP needs to be shut down and their board investigated.
Oh, wait:
The priority is food dye. /s
Any parents actually considering shooting up their kids with anything mRNA might want to give it a go.
mRNA Vaccines: Why Is the Biology of Retroposition Ignored?
... I conclude that is unfounded to a priori assume that mRNA-based therapeutics do not impact genomes and that the route to genome integration of vaccine mRNAs via endogenous L1 retroelements is easily conceivable. This implies that we urgently need experimental studies that would rigorously test for the potential retroposition of vaccine mRNAs. At present, the insertional mutagenesis safety of mRNA-based vaccines should be considered unresolved...
That paper was from 2022.
The issues it raises have still not been addressed.
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