Can I continue to access the Covid vaccine?
The new Covid vaccine guidelines implemented by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are disrupting Americans.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Reuters) – A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that recent recommendations for the recent vaccine from President Donald Trump’s administration are based on scientific evidence and facts.
The administration has shown that young, healthy people and pregnant women should not get shots of the Covid-19 virus while still in the process of setting up a new vaccination policy. It shows the reversal of the historic vaccination drive against the disease that began at the end of the 2017-2021 presidential term.
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Tuesday through Tuesday, 24% of respondents, including 5% of Democrats and 48% of Republicans, thought the recommendations for a new federal vaccine were based on science and facts.
Overall, 48% of respondents believe that the policy is not based on science or facts, and the rest do not choose not to answer questions.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Trump administration’s chief of health, overturned the federal government’s process of recommending vaccinations.
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved approval for the Covid-19 vaccine to adults age 65 and older, excluding young people at health risk.
Kennedy, who has long doubted the safety and efficacy of various vaccines against scientific evidence, was fired from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention last month. All 17 experts on the CDC’s advisory committee on vaccination practices were fired by Kennedy in June.
According to the federal register, the improved committee is scheduled to meet on September 18th and you can vote for new recommendations on hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubera-baricera, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV shots.
Many Americans, particularly Democrats, are worried that the Trump administration could bring back federal support for vaccines more widely.
When asked if they were worried about their future children not taking the vaccine they needed, 48% of respondents said they were concerned.
Four of the five Democrats said they are worried about their children’s future access to vaccines, as was the case with one in five Republicans and about half of independents. Approximately 42% of respondents said they were worried about future access to the vaccine.
The fight over vaccines is also unfolding in the state’s capital, with Republican-controlled Florida officials pledging to withdraw public school vaccination mandate, while Democratic-led state officials say they will make their own vaccine recommendations that diverge from federal recommendations.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,084 US adults nationwide, with 3% points errors for all respondents and about 6 points for Republicans and Democrats.
(Reporting by Jason Lange and Michael Elman of Washington, New York, edited by Scott Malone and Bill Barclot)
