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It’s Code Red for vaccines
How to make sense of all the vaccine policy changes in the US.
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Vaccines are among the most powerful public health tools ever developed. But their strength depends on whether we use them wisely.
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Michael Mina
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The number of changes to vaccine policy in the United States in recent weeks is dizzying – and we’ve just hit Code Red.
The federal government has sown confusion by changing recommendations for Covid-19 vaccines, ending contracts for mRNA technology research and firing the entire congressionally authorised panel that guides the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine decisions.
