CDC’s All-or-Nothing Approach to Teen COVID Vaccination Is All Wrong (Opinion – MedPage Today)

Last week, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met to discuss the safety signal of myocarditis among young people who receive mRNA vaccination against COVID-19. This dialogue has been months in the making. Ultimately, the panel continued to endorse a two-dose mRNA strategy for all ages. We are concerned with this recommendation and offer five alternative considerations. But first, let’s review how we got to this moment in order to make sense of vaccine-induced myocarditis.

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, Ramin Farzaneh-Far, MD, Wes Pegden, PhD, Venk Murthy, MD, PhD, Amy Beck, MD, MPH