A routine meeting of a group of vaccine experts who advise the U.S. Centers for Disease...
Carlson’s claim misrepresents the impact of the CDC advisory committee’s vote.PolitiFact is a fact-checking project to help you sort out fact from fiction in politics. Truth-O-Meter ratings are determined by a panel of three editors. The burden of proof is on the speaker, and PolitiFact rates statements based on the information known at the time the statement is made.On Oct.
Although state officials consider the CDC advisory committee’s recommendations when setting their requirements, experts said no state follows the CDC recommendations to the letter. PolitiFact reached out to Carlson for comment and his spokesperson directed us to a segment of his Oct. 19 show, where he doubled down on his claim. He fired back at the CDC, saying the agency had lied because"more than a dozen states follow the CDC’s immunization schedule to set vaccination requirements — not suggestions, requirements — for children to be educated."
For example, although the CDC’s immunization schedule recommends the influenza vaccine, it is not on Vermont’s list of required vaccines for school attendance. It is recommended.On Oct. 20, the advisory committee was voting"on updates to the 2023 childhood and adult immunization schedules, including whether to add approved or authorized COVID-19 vaccines," Kate Grusich, a CDC spokesperson, said before the vote. The committee later voted in favor of adding the COVID-19 vaccine.
The discussion Oct. 20 was about"whether to put them on the routine schedule, and address whether they should be recommended generally, not just as an emergency," Reiss said. Schaffner serves on the CDC’s advisory committee as a non-voting liaison representative for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.