CDC ends Covid vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and pregnant women [View all]
Source: NBC News
May 27, 2025, 10:50 AM EDT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday. “We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again,” he said in a post on X.
Kennedy said the vaccine would no longer be recommended for "healthy pregnant women," but it was unclear who would qualify as pregnancy itself is considered a risk factor for Covid complications. The change from the CDC comes a week after Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced the agency planned to restrict the use of Covid shots to older adults and children and adults with underlying medical conditions. New Covid shots for healthy children and adults will need to go through lengthy placebo-controlled clinical trials before they can get approved.
Kennedy has a long history of opposition to a variety of vaccines, including the Covid shot. In 2021, he filed a citizen petition requesting that the FDA revoke the authorization of the vaccines. The same year, he described the Covid vaccines as “the deadliest vaccine ever made,” specifically due to rare cases of myocarditis in young men. Studies have found that the risk of myocarditis is higher in people with a Covid infection and usually more severe than after vaccination.
Under Kennedy, the FDA slow-walked the approval of Novavax's shot before approving it earlier this month. In an unusual move, the FDA limited its use to people 65 and older and teens and adults with at least one condition that puts them at risk for severe illness. There are no mandates in the U.S. for anyone to get the Covid shot.
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"CDC" didn't end it. The fucking loon place-holder appointees did.
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