(Reuters) -The American Pharmacists Association will withhold endorsing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest immunization schedule, which removed the recommendation for pregnant women to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The CDC said last month COVID-19 vaccines remain an option for healthy children when parents and doctors agree that it is needed.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic who oversees the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, had announced the change in recommendations before the CDC updated its website.
“COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy has been proven safe and effective. Additionally, this vaccine is not associated with any fertility issues in either women or men,” the association said on Monday.
APhA’s said pregnancy is a high-risk condition, and, people who are pregnant should be recommended to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
(Reporting by Puyaan Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
