according to a letter sent to the agency on July 12. Following state reopenings which resulted in ends to preventative health measures such as mask-wearing, the NNU called on the CDC to reverse its COVID-19 guidelines released in May.
The union claimed the agency failed to account for data in other countries such as the United Kingdom and Israel which are now seeing spikes in cases for individuals who are ineligible for the vaccine or have elected to not get one. "The CDC’s May 13, 2021 guidance also failed to protect medically vulnerable patients, children, and infants who cannot be vaccinated, and immunocompromised individuals for whom vaccines may be less effective.