Texas physicians group is undermining federal COVID vaccine recommendations, Paxton says

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Texas physicians group is undermining federal COVID vaccine recommendations, Paxton says

Texas Medical Association has nudged physicians to consider COVID vaccine recommendations from other medical groups.

BY TERRI LANGFORD
OCT. 6, 2025
8 HOURS AGO


Johan Arzade, 12, looks at his COVID-19 vaccination record card after receiving a dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a clinic organized by the Travis County Mobile Vaccine Collaborative at Rodriguez Elementary School in Austin on July 28, 2021. Credit: Sophie Park/The Texas Tribune

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday accused the Texas Medical Association, the state’s leading physician organization, of skirting new federal recommendations that now state childhood COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer needed.

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice updated its vaccine guidance and no longer recommends that all children should receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Instead, it recommends that “vaccination for COVID-19 be determined by individual decision-making.”

Shortly thereafter, the TMA sent out guidance to members, telling them to consider both the CDC’s new guidelines and those of physician professional organizations that run counter to the federal guidance, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Paxton said the move represents an “undermining” of the federal guidelines.

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[Mopar151]

2. Why has no one dropped a house on Ken Paxton?

Morally bankrupt, ethically indigent......

[rampartd]

3. we seem to have more witches than houses to fall on them

the vaccine thing is the clue. the plan is to let us all die.

[progree]

4. Aren't individuals considering recommendations from medical groups part of "individual decision making"?

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and,

Paxton said the move represents an “undermining” of the federal guidelines.

I thought Texas repukes were among the loudest supporters of "states rights", but now it's "bow down to the federal government" ?

It's so hard to keep up.

[Paladin]

5. I wouldn't trust Paxton to mow my lawn.

Much less take advice from him on the health of my grandchildren, when reputable groups of doctors say otherwise.

Stand there and do your job, Paxton: make Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott look good, by comparison.

[Irish_Dem]

6. MAGAs love killing children.

They get off on it.

Murder by gun is leading cause of death for American children.
Now MAGA is refusing routine preventive care which saves lives.

[tanyev]

7. Those idiotic "guidelines" damn well need to be undermined.

STFU and go away, Paxton.