Overview
- The Big Cities Health Coalition published a Monday statement urging vaccination, signed by two dozen local health leaders serving nearly 50 million residents.
- Signatories denounced repeated false vaccine claims by federal officials and criticized schedule changes they say unnecessarily limit access.
- CDC vaccine advisers recently narrowed recommendations, including a vote against using the MMRV shot in children under 4 and reduced COVID-19 indications.
- Reporting highlights actions by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that have limited access, while major medical societies and Democratic-led states issue independent guidance.
- Local officials point to falling uptake and new outbreaks, noting quarantines of more than 100 unvaccinated students after a South Carolina measles exposure.