Recently, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) changed some recommendations for a vaccine.

Guthrie County Health Services Director Jotham Arber says that the CDC removed the Covid 19 vaccine from the recommended list for healthy children and healthy pregnant women. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio that there are many reasons that this could have happened, and that the CDC periodically revises their recommendations. Arber shares that just because the CDC has removed the vaccine from the recommended list, doesn’t mean people can’t or shouldn’t get it.

“Really, I think that the most important thing for folks to realize is that on a local level here, the best way to figure out what the best recommendations are for you and the vaccines that you should be taking are to work with your local provider. The CDC gives recommendations across the board for a lot of different things, and those recommendations don’t always apply to every group the same way.”

Arber mentions that one reason he believes that the vaccine was removed was because typically, healthy people are generally alright if they do catch Covid, and that the vaccine is working now like a preventative, like an influenza vaccine.