The recommendation, though not mandatory, would allow parents to understand that children can benefit from vaccines and it would be readily available to local physicians and administer to 30 million children nationwide.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases: "This new recommendation will help parents understand that all children can benefit from vaccination."
The CDC approval would also widen the insurance coverage and increase the coverage of the government's Vaccines for Children program and triple its reach.
The committee wants to prevent and lower the number of deaths among children related to the flu virus. In 2007 some 68 children died of the flu virus across 26 states. This season, there were already 22 children who died due to complications caused by the flu virus.
The CDC also said that vaccination on children aged 6 months and 2 years was about 75 percent effective in preventing the virus from worsening. The physicians recommend that two shots within the given period should be administered to be more effective.
