(LOOTPRESS) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has officially abandoned its long-standing recommendation that all Americans get COVID-19 vaccines, instead adopting a new advisory group’s approach that leaves the choice up to patients.

Previously, U.S. health officials had recommended annual COVID boosters for everyone ages 6 months and older. That policy was based on efforts to update protection as the virus evolves.

The change follows a shake-up earlier this year.

In May, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the CDC’s previous vaccine advisory board and replaced it with a new group. Kennedy also removed recommendations for COVID vaccination in healthy children and pregnant women.

The new advisory panel voted to make COVID vaccination a matter of shared decis

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