CDC Stops Recommending COVID Vaccine for Healthy Children, Pregnant Women

[Red Phoenix]

‘There’s no evidence healthy kids need it today, and most countries have stopped recommending it for children,’ FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said.

 

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/cdc-stops-recommending-covid-vaccine-for-healthy-children-pregnant-women-5863960

 

> Finally - and long overdue - they stopped this greed-driven madness of recommending innoculation of 6-month olds against COVID. 

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s online versions of the schedules, which say they were published in 2024, still list the COVID-19 vaccine.

The latest versions of the vaccines were cleared by the Food and Drug Administration in 2024 without any clinical data. The CDC previously advised pregnant women and children to receive at least one dose of the currently available formulations of the shots, even if they had previously been vaccinated.

Those recommendations came “despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children,” Kennedy said.

 

Just 13 percent of children and 14 percent of pregnant women have taken one of the vaccines since the fall of 2024, according to CDC data.

 

> So we are talking approx 9.5 million children and more than half a million pregnant women that have taken the shot based on that now rescinded 'recommendation'.

 

= = =

[Gsxrnz]

Eventually Wikipedia will include Covid on the list of Mass Hysteria, along with 15th century witch trials, War of the Worlds, and the daycare sex abuse hysteria of the 80's. 

 

But don't hold your breath. 

[johng]

I wrote a couple of  comments about

what was happening during the height of covid on here...citing

the mass formation phycosis theory  of clinical  psychologist  professor

Mattias Desmet..was dismissed as an unrecognised theory and coments removed.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The problem is, this policy change unsurprisingly has been made unilaterally by serial anti-vaxer RFK Jr. and his clown clone appointees, Makary and Prasad -- none of whom have any professional expertise with vaccines -- WITHOUT any input or advice from the FDA and CDC's expert medical and public health panels that historically have guided government vaccine policy.  It's the typical Trump Admin governance by loons approach.

 

And it's a policy, as regards children, that a lot of actual experts in the field, pediatricians, believe is WRONG. For example:

 

New FDA framework on Covid vaccines leaves pediatricians confused and concerned

 

May 20, 2025

...

 

"The possibility that Covid shots would become unavailable for kids alarmed pediatricians. “I see children admitted to the hospital with Covid and they’re not all high-risk children — including those who go to intensive care units,” said James Campbell, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases specialist at the University of Maryland. “If we have safe and effective vaccines that prevent illness, we think they should be available.” [emphasis added]

...

 

Making sure children have immunity through early vaccination is something many physicians support, however, especially because most infants have not been exposed to the virus. “I think there is strong data to suggest Covid should be part of routine childhood vaccinations,” said Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “We vaccinate kids for things that have less morbidity and mortality than Covid, like chickenpox for example.”

 

Emergency physician Jeremy Faust of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who hosted his own livestream to discuss the new framework as soon as it was released, said it was critical to make sure “immune-naive” infants 6 months and older receive the vaccine."

 

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STAT News

https://archive.ph/d6faP

 

 

[johng]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The problem is, this policy change unsurprisingly has been made unilaterally by serial anti-vaxer RFK Jr.

 

More rubbish from Big pharma shills.

children are at very little risk from this "virus"

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

As for the non-existent process that RFK Jr. followed in leading to this policy change:

 

"The move bypassed the traditional process. Once a vaccine is approved or authorized by the FDA, the CDC's independent vaccine advisory panel holds hearings to determine who should receive the vaccine, when, and how often.

 

The panel — the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — sends its recommendations to the CDC director. Once the director signs off, the recommendations become official policy, and insurance companies are required to cover the vaccines with no out of pocket costs to consumers.

 

Richard Hughes IV, who teaches vaccine law at George Washington University Law School, said he cannot recall a previous time when an HHS secretary overruled the advisory committee and the CDC. [emphasis added]

 

Washington Post

https://archive.ph/eB6fM

 

In this case, neither the CDC nor the FDA's advisory panels on vaccines -- which had previously supported COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women --  were consulted about the policy change announced by anti-vaxer RFK Jr.

 

Ahh, and right now, RFK Jr. as HHS secretary is the only one in the U.S. government who has final say on all U.S. vaccine policy decisions because the normal person who would have that say -- the CDC director -- currently does not have a confirmed nominee, so that position remains essentially vacant for now.

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Your Local Epidemiologist blog author Dr. Katelyn Jetelina in a recent post on the Trump Administration's political appointee-driven vaccine policy making:

 

Bottom line

 

"This isn’t about whether everyone needs a yearly Covid-19 vaccine—that’s a legitimate, ongoing scientific debate, and one ACIP was already tackling in June.

 

This is about how decisions are made—and who gets to make them. FDA political appointees are sidelining expert panels, bypassing transparency, and turning public health into a performance. That might fly in other arenas, but shouldn’t when it comes to people’s health and daily lives. [emphasis added]

 

Vaccine decisions must be rooted in evidence, debate, and transparency. If this is the new model, we should all be alarmed." [emphasis added]

 

YLE is a public health newsletter that reaches over 375,000 people in more than 132 countries, with one goal: to translate the ever-evolving public health science so that people are well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions.

 

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccines-what-just-happened?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=281219&post_id=164017314

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

For those who wrongly think young children, especially the unvaccinated ones, aren't at health risk from COVID, here's one answer to that:

 

U.S. researchers in March 2024 published a study of 597 U.S. children ages 8 months to under 5 years who had been hospitalized with acute COVID at 28 pediatric hospitals from fall 2022 to mid 2023. They found the following:

 

"Among 597 children, 174 (29.1%) patients were admitted to the intensive care unit and 75 (12.6%) had a life-threatening illness, including 51 (8.5%) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation... [emphasis added]

 

Only 4.5% of children hospitalized for COVID-19 (n = 27) had completed their primary COVID-19 vaccination series and 7.0% (n = 42) of children initiated but did not complete their primary series. Among 528 unvaccinated children, nearly half (n = 251) were previously healthy, 3 of them required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute COVID-19 and 1 died. [emphasis added]

Conclusions: 

Most young children hospitalized for acute COVID-19, including most children admitted to the intensive care unit and with life-threatening illness, had not initiated COVID-19 vaccination despite being eligible. Nearly half of these children had no underlying conditions. Of the small percentage of children who initiated a COVID-19 primary series, most had not completed it before hospitalization."

 

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

https://journals.lww.com/pidj/abstract/2024/03000/characteristics_and_clinical_outcomes_of.10.aspx

 

 

[johng]

4 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

For those who wrongly think young children, especially the unvaccinated

 

For those that can't read

Age group  0-9 infection fatality rate  0.002%  !!!!!

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Statement by the U.S. Infectious Diseases Society of America President Dr. Tina Tan on RFK Jr.s announcement:

 

"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women does the opposite of what Americans have been asking for when it comes to their health — it takes away choices and will negatively impact them. ... This change is particularly troubling because pregnancy is a well-established risk factor for severe COVID-19 complications, including preterm labor and birth, preeclampsia, heart injury, blood clots, hypertension and kidney damage. Infants and children may also develop severe disease and may suffer from prolonged symptoms due to long COVID, which can negatively impact their development.

This decision bypassed longstanding processes through which the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC — an external body of highly vetted experts — conducts a robust review of scientific evidence in open, public meetings to make vaccine recommendations for people of all ages. It is concerning that such a significant policy change was made unilaterally outside an open, evidence-based process with no regard for the negative impact this will have on millions of Americans. [emphasis added]

IDSA strongly urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines so that all Americans can make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families against severe illness, hospitalization and death. IDSA also urges Congress to conduct meaningful and necessary oversight to ensure appropriate decision-making processes at the Department of Health and Human Services, which will impact people of all ages."

 

https://www.idsociety.org/news--publications-new/articles/2025/new-covid-vaccine-recommendations-threaten-access-undermine-choice-and-will-negatively-impact-health/

 

The Infectious Diseases Society of America is a community of more than 13,000 physicians, scientists and public health experts who specialize in infectious diseases. Its purpose is to improve the health of individuals, communities and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health and prevention relating to infectious diseases.

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

12 minutes ago, johng said:

 

For those that can't read

Age group  0-9 infection fatality rate  0.002%  !!!!!

 

 

And of course, no date, no source, no location geography, and no author info on the chart you keep posting, rendering the info meaningless.

 

[impulse]

16 minutes ago, johng said:

 

For those that can't read

Age group  0-9 infection fatality rate  0.002%  !!!!!

 

 

Yup.  And in 20 years or so we'll know the long term side effects of the experimental jabs.  My forecast is that the unjabbed will be referred to in the future as "breeders".  But I do have some wingnut ideas.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

American Academy of Pediatrics analyzes pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations from 2020-’24

 

July 1, 2024

 

About 234,000 children under age 18 were hospitalized with confirmed cases of COVID-19 from fall 2020 to spring 2024, according to AAP analysis of data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [emphasis added]

...

The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations varied substantially across time by waves of infection and emergence of new variants (see figure). The largest peak was in winter 2022 during the omicron surge, with 6,527 child hospitalizations the week of Jan. 15. In the final week of the report, April 27, 2024, 310 children with a confirmed COVID-19 case were admitted, among the lowest levels reported during the pandemic.

 

Starting in January 2022, HHS also required hospitals to break out child admissions by age group (0-4 years, 5-11 years and 12-17 years) in their weekly reports. While children ages 0-4 comprise about 26% of the U.S. child population, they accounted for 58% of the confirmed COVID-19 [juvenile] hospital admissions from January 2022 to April 2024. This may be related to greater vulnerability or to lower vaccination levels among this age group.

 

(more)

 

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/29182

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

XBB COVID vaccine estimated to be 63% to 68% effective against more severe illness in kids

December 13, 2024

 

"The adjusted effectiveness of the updated Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 XBB vaccine in the 2023-24 US respiratory virus season was 68% and 63% against hospitalization or emergency department (ED) or urgent-care visits among children aged 5 to 11 years and 12 to 17 years, respectively, with an overall effectiveness for both age-groups of 65%, a Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC)-led research team estimates.

...

The US COVID-19 hospitalization rate among 5- to 17-year-olds was about 10.5 per 100,000 during the study period. "Assuming 65% vaccine effectiveness, vaccinating the roughly 54.3 million 5-to-17-year–olds in the US could have averted approximately 3,700 hospitalizations and, using the approximately 30:1 ratio of hospitalizations to ED or urgent care visits we observed in our study, roughly 111,000 ED or urgent care visits during the 2023-2024 respiratory virus season," the researchers wrote. [emphasis added]

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/xbb-covid-vaccine-estimated-be-63-68-effective-against-more-severe-illness-kids

 

 

[Mark Nothing]

Prior to the "groundbreaking" discovery of viruses about the year 1900, old medical textbooks called it the common cold.  The only doctors who believed viruses existed were those hired by the newly formed pharmaceutical companies, who of course had the treatment ready to bring to the market.  Slick talkers who created a sales gimmick to hook the fish.

 

According to old medical textbooks the common cold is essentially a normal housecleaning function of the human body due to mismanagement.  Doctors identified two component causes of the common cold, physical and mental.

 

The physical component involved things like poor diet, unclean drinking water, lack of nutrition in foods, overwork due to strenuous labor, poor sleep habits.

 

The mental component was just as powerful weakening the immune system due to work stress, marital disagreements, financial burdens, doctors scaring their customers with  scary ailments, or anything that causes worry or anxiety.

 

So a vaccine for a fictitious virus that doesn't even exist is ludicrous. It is good to see 86% of mothers have caught on in the article and don't vaccinate. Now we enter the spiritual realm.  How do you fight off something that doesn't even exist but still scares you.  You fight fire with fire.  You strengthen your mind in the ethereal world.  And you discover innate abilities that free you.

[Red Phoenix]

38 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

And of course, no date, no source, no location geography, and no author info on the chart you keep posting, rendering the info meaningless.

 

 

That table posted by @johng comes from a March 2020 report issued by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, headed by Neil Ferguson. 

Source: https://www.portailvasculaire.fr/sites/default/files/docs/imperial_college_covid19_interventions_non_pharmaceutiques_0.pdf

So already at the very start of the scamdemic, it was known that Covid-19 was no threat for infants.  

> Age group  0-9 infection fatality rate  0.002%  !!!!!

 

[johng]

Here's another opinion  from those "conspiracy theorists" at the lancet.

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02867-1/fulltext

 

My opinion Children have a minuscule risk from this "virus"

IFR and 95% uncertainty interval
1 year	0·0054% (0·0021–0·0114)
2 years	0·0040% (0·0020–0·0070)
3 years	0·0032% (0·0019–0·0051)
4 years	0·0027% (0·0018–0·0043)
5 years	0·0024% (0·0017–0·0039)
6 years	0·0023% (0·0016–0·0038)
7 years	0·0023% (0·0015–0·0039)
8 years	0·0023% (0·0015–0·0042)
9 years	0·0025% (0·0016–0·0046)
10 years	0·0028% (0·0018–0·0050)
11 years	0·0031% (0·0021–0·0056)
12 years	0·0036% (0·0024–0·0063)
13 years	0·0042% (0·0028–0·0073)
14 years	0·0050% (0·0034–0·0084)
15 years	0·0060% (0·0041–0·0097)
16 years	0·0071% (0·0050–0·0113)
17 years	0·0085% (0·0060–0·0134)
18 years	0·0100% (0·0071–0·0157)
19 years	0·0118% (0·0084–0·0183)
20 years	0·0138% (0·0098–0·0214)
21 years	0·0162% (0·0114–0·0250)
22 years	0·0188% (0·0133–0·0292)
23 years	0·0219% (0·0153–0·0335)
24 years	0·0254% (0·0178–0·0385)
25 years	0·0293% (0·0207–0·0441)
26 years	0·0337% (0·0241–0·0504)
27 years	0·0386% (0·0280–0·0575)
28 years	0·0442% (0·0324–0·0658)
29 years	0·0504% (0·0372–0·0757)
30 years	0·0573% (0·0418–0·0870)
31 years	0·0650% (0·0469–0·0983)
32 years	0·0735% (0·0526–0·1108)
33 years	0·0829% (0·0590–0·1246)
34 years	0·0932% (0·0663–0·1398)
35 years	0·1046% (0·0747–0·1564)
36 years	0·1171% (0·0842–0·1746)
37 years	0·1307% (0·0950–0·1944)
38 years	0·1455% (0·1070–0·2161)
39 years	0·1616% (0·1197–0·2420)
40 years	0·1789% (0·1319–0·2706)
41 years	0·1976% (0·1440–0·3038)
42 years	0·2177% (0·1575–0·3397)
43 years	0·2391% (0·1714–0·3731)
44 years	0·2620% (0·1861–0·4122)
45 years	0·2863% (0·2016–0·4540)
46 years	0·3119% (0·2176–0·4980)
47 years	0·3389% (0·2350–0·5437)
48 years	0·3672% (0·2541–0·5906)
49 years	0·3968% (0·2748–0·6380)
50 years	0·4278% (0·2958–0·6858)
51 years	0·4606% (0·3180–0·7346)
52 years	0·4958% (0·3430–0·7855)
53 years	0·5342% (0·3720–0·8398)
54 years	0·5766% (0·4028–0·8992)
55 years	0·6242% (0·4358–0·9715)
56 years	0·6785% (0·4736–1·0602)
57 years	0·7413% (0·5181–1·1621)
58 years	0·8149% (0·5698–1·2796)
59 years	0·9022% (0·6304–1·4162)
60 years	1·0035% (0·7002–1·5727)
61 years	1·1162% (0·7776–1·7462)
62 years	1·2413% (0·8635–1·9438)
63 years	1·3803% (0·9588–2·1644)
64 years	1·5346% (1·0645–2·4094)
65 years	1·7058% (1·1817–2·6813)
66 years	1·8957% (1·3117–2·9830)
67 years	2·1064% (1·4557–3·3175)
68 years	2·3399% (1·6154–3·6881)
69 years	2·5986% (1·7928–4·0983)
70 years	2·8851% (1·9893–4·5519)
71 years	3·2022% (2·2069–5·0532)
72 years	3·5527% (2·4476–5·6064)
73 years	3·9402% (2·7139–6·2162)
74 years	4·3679% (3·0083–6·8875)
75 years	4·8397% (3·3336–7·6254)
76 years	5·3597% (3·6926–8·4353)
77 years	5·9320% (4·0887–9·3240)
78 years	6·5612% (4·5253–10·2959)
79 years	7·2520% (5·0061–11·3392)
80 years	8·0093% (5·5339–12·4411)
81 years	8·8381% (6·1140–13·6344)
82 years	9·7437% (6·7643–14·9249)
83 years	10·7311% (7·4783–16·3145)
84 years	11·8054% (8·2609–17·8063)
85 years	12·9717% (9·1175–19·4030)
86 years	14·2346% (10·0530–21·1061)
87 years	15·5984% (11·0729–22·9162)
88 years	17·0669% (12·1823–24·8326)
89 years	18·6431% (13·3860–26·8535)
90 years	20·3292% (14·6888–28·9754)
91 years	22·1263% (16·0949–31·1935)
92 years	24·0344% (17·6000–33·5013)
93 years	26·0519% (19·1384–35·8908)
94 years	28·1760% (20·7725–38·3524)
95 years	30·4021% (22·4676–40·8752)
96 years	32·7239% (24·2367–43·4272)
97 years	35·1335% (26·0981–46·0137)
98 years	37·6213% (28·0497–48·6219)
99 years	40·1762% (30·0877–51·2376)
100 years	42·7856% (32·2380–53·8466

[hotsun]

50 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Yup.  And in 20 years or so we'll know the long term side effects of the experimental jabs.  My forecast is that the unjabbed will be referred to in the future as "breeders".  But I do have some wingnut ideas.

 

In 20 years im sure there will be bigger problems, something more to be outraged about. I had another child after getting jabbed

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

19 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

That table posted by @johng comes from a March 2020 report issued by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, headed by Neil Ferguson. 

Source: https://www.portailvasculaire.fr/sites/default/files/docs/imperial_college_covid19_interventions_non_pharmaceutiques_0.pdf

So already at the very start of the scamdemic, it was known that Covid-19 was no threat for infants.  

> Age group  0-9 infection fatality rate  0.002%  !!!!!

 

 

That from March 2020 was at the very beginning of the COVID pandemic, and has little relevance to what actually occurred during the ensuing years of the pandemic. And on top of that, the chart reflects their early 2020 modeling estimates, not any actual real data on fatalities from that chart. Put it all together, and it's totally meaningless irrelevant for the current discussion/topic!  Especially when there's REAL actual data available on the point.

 

According to CDC data, more than 1,800 minors died of COVID in the U.S. from the pandemic up through mid-2023:

 

Provisional COVID-19 deaths by age group, by sex: United States

 

 

https://data.cdc.gov/National-Center-for-Health-Statistics/Deaths-by-Sex-Ages-0-18-years/xa4b-4pzv

 

And below is data on minors' COVID hospitalizations - some 234,000:

 

American Academy of Pediatrics analyzes pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations from 2020-’24

 

July 1, 2024

 

About 234,000 children under age 18 were hospitalized with confirmed cases of COVID-19 from fall 2020 to spring 2024, according to AAP analysis of data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [emphasis added]

 

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/29182

 

Real numbers. Real deaths and real illnesses from COVID in young people. Not the 2020 chart nonsense posted above.

 

[johng]

6 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

That table posted by @johng comes from a March 2020 report issued by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, headed by Neil Ferguson

 

Thanks I was racking my (tiny) brain trying to remember where it came from but found another one in the meantime.

[johng]

6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

what actually occurred during the ensuing years of the pandemic.

What actually occurred was that the "estimates and modelling" presented by legacy media were quite inaccurate and hugely scaremongering.

However now in 2025 as in 2019 the IFR of Covid-19 for children is ??? 

answers on an AI postcard please.

 

 

 

 

 

Small spoiler   much less than 1%

[rattlesnake]

It's great that the nefarious pharmaceutical cartel is being dismantled.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

59 minutes ago, johng said:

Here's another opinion  from those "conspiracy theorists" at the lancet.

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02867-1/fulltext

 

My opinion Children have a minuscule risk from this "virus"

IFR and 95% uncertainty interval

 

Another load of meaningless data (for current discussion in 2025) that predated the bulk of the COVID pandemic, and the later periods that had the highest COVID fatality rates:

 

From your cited source:

"We report IFR estimates for April 15, 2020, to January 1, 2021, the period before the introduction of vaccines and widespread evolution of variants."

 

More broadly, it's a typical ploy of anti-vaxers and COVID deniers to express deaths and hospitalization data as population level percentages (which are going to be small under almost any circumstance, and to then totally ignore the thousands of child deaths and hundreds of thousands of COVID hospitalizations in minors.

 

Child mortality and COVID-19

Last update: March 2023

 

UNICEF reported that more than 17,400 children and adolescents under age 20 had died of COVID, based on sampling and incomplete data from reporting countries.

 

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-survival/covid-19/

 

 

[johng]

22 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

and the later periods that had the highest COVID fatality rates:

And what did the later periods of the "pandemic" also have ??

I won't give you a clue this time.

 

Also what is the IFR  in % of Covid-19 for young people ??? 

simple answer please not a 100 page report  if you can.

[impulse]

1 hour ago, hotsun said:

In 20 years im sure there will be bigger problems, something more to be outraged about. I had another child after getting jabbed

 

All of your "parts" were fully developed before you got the shot.  We won't know how the shots affect the important parts of kids for 20 years or so, when it's their turn to pop out babies. 

 

That's the nature of experimenting with RNA.  We just don't know. 

 

Like we don't know what's causing the horrendous increase in autism in the USA. I'm glad we finally have someone at the helm who's curious.  The guy that looked at the risk of Covid to kids and said, no more.

 

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"Amesh A. Adalja, MD, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, strongly disagreed with the decision and was critical of Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who Adalja noted recently said during a congressional hearing that people should not be taking his medical advice.

 

“These are bad recommendations that no one should follow,” Adalja told Healio.

 

“Pregnancy is a high-risk condition for COVID, as recently indicated in the FDA’s announcing of new clinical trial guidelines,” he said. “Healthy children — at least for their initial vaccine series — benefit, as hospitalization rates for COVID in those under 2 is unacceptably high, and routine childhood vaccination schedules include vaccines with lower morbidity levels. This decision should be viewed exclusively as the actions of an anti-vaccine advocate who unfortunately has the ability to wield government power.” [emphasis added]

 

Healio

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20250527/kennedy-cdc-will-stop-recommending-covid-shots-for-healthy-children-pregnant-women

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"Since the vaccines became available, the government has been recommending the shots for nearly everyone, including children and pregnant people. Although children don't tend to get seriously ill from COVID, some do, especially very young children, and pregnant women remain at high risk for serious complications from the virus. [emphasis added]

...

Dr. Steven J. Fleischman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said his organization is "extremely disappointed" by the removal of the recommendation for COVID shots during pregnancy.

 

"As ob-gyns who treat patients every day, we have seen firsthand how dangerous COVID infection can be during pregnancy and for newborns who depend on maternal antibodies from the vaccine for protection," he said in a statement. "The science has not changed. It is very clear that COVID infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability." [emphasis added]

 

NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413179/covid-vaccine-children-pregnant-rfk-cdc

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Once again, RFK Jr. is not only a serial anti-vaxer and COVID misinformer, but now also a proven liar:

 

RFK Jr: ‘We’re not gonna take vaccines away from anybody’

November 6, 2024

 

"Anti-vaccine activist and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s been promised a prominent health care role by President-elect Donald Trump in his administration, sought to allay concerns Wednesday that he would seek to halt vaccinations.

 

“We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody,” he told NPR in an interview this morning after Trump’s overnight victory. He repeated the message a few hours later in an interview with MSNBC."

 

(more)

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-taking-vaccines-away-from-anybody/

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The Health Secretary announced a policy change without informing CDC officials

 

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tuesday said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend Covid-19 shots for "healthy children and healthy pregnant women." He announced the policy change in a social media video in which no CDC officials appeared. [emphasis added]

Who said what

"CDC officials were not informed in advance of Kennedy's decision," The Washington Post said, citing a former agency official. Public health experts "immediately questioned" the announcement, The Associated Press said, in part because Kennedy, a "leading anti-vaccine advocate," bypassed a "scientific review process that has been in place for decades, in which experts — in public meetings — review current medical evidence and hash out" policy recommendations. [emphasis added]

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Pregnant women are "at high risk of severe illness and complications from Covid," and vaccinating them also "extends the protection to their unborn until the babies are about 6 months old," a period in which infants' risk of severe disease and hospitalization from the virus is "comparable to that among adults 65 and older," The New York Times said."

 

The Week

https://theweek.com/health/rfk-jr-covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-kids

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

" In making the announcement, Mr. Kennedy seems to have reneged on a promise he made to Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, not to alter the childhood immunization schedule. [emphasis added]

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Mr. Kennedy’s decision upends the standard process for such recommendations, which are made by advisers to the C.D.C. and accepted — or overruled — by the agency’s director. The health secretary is typically not directly involved in these matters, but the C.D.C. does not currently have a permanent director.

 

New York Times

https://archive.ph/Aoz36#selection-731.0-731.308

 

 

Background re the role of Republican Sen. Cassidy, who's also a physician who played key role in getting Kennedy confirmed by the Senate:

 

Why the 1 senator who can rein in RFK Jr. isn’t calling him out

May 14, 2025

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"After his tough questions in January, Cassidy voted to confirm Kennedy, saying Kennedy had promised to uphold the current vaccine approval and monitoring system. [emphasis added]

 

“I will carefully watch for any effort to wrongfully sow public fear about vaccines,” Cassidy said in a floor speech explaining his vote.

 

Since then, Cassidy has refrained from publicly criticizing the secretary, even as Kennedy has pledged new scrutiny for Covid-19 vaccines, offered lukewarm endorsement of the measles shot during an outbreak and reportedly hired a vaccine skeptic to lead a search for autism’s cause."

 

Politico

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/rfk-jr-set-to-face-the-senator-who-grilled-him-00346321