CDC Should Tighten Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccination: Advisers

The CDC’s acting director will decide whether to accept the recommendations.

A nurse carries a tray with a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a health care center in Miami on May 29, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should recommend that people receive a COVID-19 vaccine only after speaking with a health care provider, agency advisers said on Sept. 19.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously advised the CDC to change its immunization schedules to move COVID-19 vaccination to shared clinical decision-making.