The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed the COVID-19 vaccine from the recommended immunization schedule for “healthy children and healthy pregnant women,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday morning.
In a video on his X profile with National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, Kennedy faulted the Biden administration for urging healthy kids to get “yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.”
“It’s common sense and it’s good science” to change the recommendations, Bhattacharya said, while Makary emphasized “most countries have stopped recommending it for children.”
Kennedy said the country is “now one step closer to realizing” President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again promise.
The announcement does not appear to have been posted on HHS, FDA, CDC or NIH websites as of 10:50 a.m.
