(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Nurse Lydia Holly prepares a child’s COVID-19 vaccine dose, on Nov. 3, 2021, at Children’s National Hospital in Washington. U.S. regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 and under while awaiting data on a three-dose course, aiming to clear the way for the shots as soon as late February. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Allegheny County Representative and physician Arvind Venkat proposed recently that private insurers and the program for Medicaid would be required to cover vaccines approved by the FDA. Venkat also noted that the Medicaid program and private insurers would need to cover approved vaccines from some medical societies that are professional. The Democratic representative confirmed this proposal would stop lapses in coverage for insurance for shots, even if CDC key advisors change recommendations for vaccines. Vaccines recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians or the American Academy of Family Physicians would get mandated health coverage through the proposal made by Venkat.