NYT The guidelines, from California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, mirror those of major medical organizations. They were issued a day before an advisory panel was set to meet to review potential changes to federal recommendations. Four Democratic-controlled Western states on Wednesday issued their own recommendations on who should get three common seasonal vaccines, a sharp rejection of efforts by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to upend vaccine policy at the federal level.
The so-called West Coast Health Alliance — which includes health officials in California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii — recommended that every resident 6 months and older receive the flu vaccine this fall. They also recommended that broad swaths of the population receive a Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all children from 6 months to 2 years old, and that R.S.V. vaccines be given to infants under 8 months and adults over 75, as well as to others with certain risk factors.
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