CDC adds COVID-19 vaccine to childhood vaccine schedule – to help “normalise” it!

On February 10, 2023 the CDC adds COVID-19 vaccines to the US childhood immunization schedule, not for health or community transmission reasons (which it doesn’t target) but to help “normalize” the COVID-19 vaccine and sends a “powerful message” everyone over six months of age to “stay up to date” with recommended COVID-19 vaccines. [1, 2, 3, 4]

It comes as the FDA are considering switching the COVID-19 vaccine to a yearly schedule similar to the flu shot program, and as ACIP were considering the bivalent shot as a primary series.

Since 1986, any vaccine on the childhood schedule means the vaccine manufacturer is exempt of liability!

On October 19, 2022 the ACIP committee began discussing adding COVID-19 vaccines to the childhood schedule, for “the prevention of COVID-19″ [5] Stating it “is an important step toward inclusion of COVID 19 vaccines in routine vaccination program”and that “[e]quitable access to COVID 19 vaccines for all ages and populations remains critically important.”

This schedule vaccine-type addition allows the CDC to “begin the steps necessary to award contracts for COVID-19 vaccines”, which the United States Governments (USG) response had been funding nationally while under “emergency” status.