Per Reuters, the decision was made because CDC employees were instead taking a paid day off from the government, brought to you by Joe Biden’s recent move of making Juneteenth a federal holiday:
June 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday put off its meeting to discuss the occurrence of myocarditis among people who received COVID-19 shots due to the Juneteenth national holiday.
Advisers to CDC were set to meet on Friday to assess the possibility of a link between rare cases of heart inflammation and mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna
The discussion will be rescheduled to be included as part of its meeting from June 23-25, the CDC said. (Reporting by Amruta Khandekar; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
Advisers to CDC were set to meet on Friday to assess the possibility of a link between rare cases of heart inflammation and mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna
The discussion will be rescheduled to be included as part of its meeting from June 23-25, the CDC said. (Reporting by Amruta Khandekar; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
This comes after the World Health Organization took the position that “Children should not be vaccinated for the moment,” a statement that was scrubbed from the website entirely shortly after being posted on June 22nd.
Interestingly, the language on the just-mentioned WHO link seems to have changed quite a bit, with it now saying “Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers,” and that “More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.”
Interestingly, the language on the just-mentioned WHO link seems to have changed quite a bit, with it now saying “Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers,” and that “More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.”
