The CDC is removing recommendations that children and pregnant people get the COVID vaccine.
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The federal government has removed COVID-19 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy pregnant women and children, federal health officials announced Tuesday.
“I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that as of today the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a video posted on X. “We’re now one step closer to realizing President Trump’s promise to make America healthy again.”
The decision will make it much harder for parents to get their children vaccinated and for pregnant people to get the shots because insurance companies will likely no longer pay for them.
“Last year the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children,” Kennedy said.
In announcing the decision, Kennedy was flanked by Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary and National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
“It’s common sense and it’s good science,” Bhattacharya said.
“There’s no evidence healthy kids need it today and most countries have stopped recommending it for children,” Makary added.
The decision was…