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May 30, 2025

 

WASHINGTON −The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still recommending COVID vaccines for healthy children, according to the CDC's latest published immunization schedule.

 

The schedule, published late on May 29 by the public health agency, comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr − alongside the heads of the FDA and the NIH − earlier this week said the U.S. would stop recommending routine COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.

 

The new guidance says parents who want to vaccinate a child for the coronavirus "may receive COVID-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a healthcare provider and personal preference and circumstances."

 

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USA Today

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-still-recommends-childhood-covid-vaccines-despite-rfk-announcement/ar-AA1FNYa1

 

 

Child Immunization Schedule Notes

Recommendations for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2025
 
 
Health Care Providers
May 29, 2025
 

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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html

 

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Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids

"Coronavirus vaccines are still recommended for healthy children if their doctors approve, according to updated immunization schedules published late Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contradicting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement earlier this week.

 

 

The revisions, which also say the vaccines are no longer advised during pregnancy, add to the confusion surrounding the Trump administration’s move to bypass the traditional system for immunization advice through expert review and CDC guidance.

 

The CDC did not remove the coronavirus vaccines from the childhood schedule, as Kennedy said it would, when it updated its website late Thursday. Instead, the agency recommends the shots based on “shared clinical decision-making,” meaning children can get vaccinated if their parents and doctors agree."

 

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Washington Post

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/contradicting-rfk-jr-cdc-keeps-recommending-covid-vaccine-for-kids/ar-AA1FNKH0

 

Interestingly, in the WAPO article above, a spokesman for the U.S. HHS [Kennedy's agency] acknowledged the CDC's updated guidance and claimed it was not in conflict with Kennedy's purported positions and statements, saying: "If a parent desires their healthy child to be vaccinated or if a pregnant woman desires to be vaccinated, their decision should be based on informed consent through the clinical judgment of their healthcare provider.” [emphasis added]

 

 

 

 

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From the same WAPO report, with Kennedy's HHS spokesman Nixon acknowledging the latest CDC guidance, not rejecting it:

 

"When announcing this week that coronavirus vaccines would no longer be recommended for healthy children and healthy pregnant women, Kennedy did not say patients could consult doctors about the decision. He said there was a “lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.”

 

Nixon said there was no contradiction between Kennedy’s position and the CDC’s actions. “The old recommendation that was on the vaccine schedule that said get a covid shot for a healthy kid is no longer there,” Nixon said. “The only recommendation is go talk to a health-care provider.”

 

Vaccine experts said maintaining a “shared clinical decision-making” recommendation for childhood coronavirus immunization should preserve parental choice and compel insurers to cover the shots. But they cautioned that it can lead to more confusion than a blanket recommendation, leading to some parents paying out of pocket or prompting some doctors to not vaccinate their patients." [emphasis added]

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/contradicting-rfk-jr-cdc-keeps-recommending-covid-vaccine-for-kids/ar-AA1FNKH0

 

 

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CDC tweaks — but does not remove — COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for kids

May 30, 2025

Key takeaways:

  • HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week that the CDC would stop recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy kids and pregnant women.
  • The CDC tweaked but did not remove its recommendation.

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"The update is not just a matter of language — it could help cover the payment for parents who want their children to be vaccinated. According to the CDC, vaccines with a shared clinical decision-making recommendation should be covered fully by health insurance, same as other vaccines, “when they have been adopted by CDC and are listed on the immunization schedules.” [emphasis added]

 

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Healio

https://www.healio.com/news/pediatrics/20250530/cdc-tweaks-but-does-not-remove-covid19-vaccine-recommendation-for-kids

 

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RFK Jr. Misleads About Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children

May 7, 2025

 

"In recent interviews, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has minimized the risk COVID-19 poses to kids and exaggerated the risk of the vaccine, incorrectly claiming that the shot poses a “profound risk” to children. While serious side effects can occur, they are rare, and have not been shown to outweigh the benefits of the vaccine in protecting against COVID-19."

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It’s true that kids are typically at much lower risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19 than adults, and some physicians do not think it’s necessary for healthy children to receive annual updated doses. But the risk of COVID-19 to children is “not no risk,” said [Dr. Sean O’Leary, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.]  “Through much of the pandemic, COVID was in the top 10 causes of death among children, and it was not just children with severe comorbidities. There were, unfortunately, lots of pediatric deaths, many of them in healthy children — and certainly, you know, thousands of hospitalizations as well.”

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According to provisional CDC data presented in the last ACIP meeting, COVID-19 was an underlying cause of death for 152 children under 18 years of age between September 2023 and August 2024. “About 4 of every 10 children hospitalized with COVID-19 did not have any pre-existing conditions,” Moser told us. 

 

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https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-jr-misleads-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-children/

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, frank83628 said:

WTF is your obsession with covid?

I know..it's off the rails....he will be masking 100%.

 

I go to my gym chain all over my city in UK every 2nd day, loads of people,heavy breathing....no issues.

It's like a distant dream in the UK but not for this guy...OCD level obsession.

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10 minutes ago, blaze master said:

How many children die every year in America from other things. 

 

Thousands and thousands. Now  compare that to covid and the whole thing is a joke. 

A joke? So you consider the death of children a joke?

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17 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

RFK Jr. Misleads About Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children

May 7, 2025

 

"In recent interviews, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has minimized the risk COVID-19 poses to kids and exaggerated the risk of the vaccine, incorrectly claiming that the shot poses a “profound risk” to children. While serious side effects can occur, they are rare, and have not been shown to outweigh the benefits of the vaccine in protecting against COVID-19."

...

It’s true that kids are typically at much lower risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19 than adults, and some physicians do not think it’s necessary for healthy children to receive annual updated doses. But the risk of COVID-19 to children is “not no risk,” said [Dr. Sean O’Leary, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.]  “Through much of the pandemic, COVID was in the top 10 causes of death among children, and it was not just children with severe comorbidities. There were, unfortunately, lots of pediatric deaths, many of them in healthy children — and certainly, you know, thousands of hospitalizations as well.”

...

According to provisional CDC data presented in the last ACIP meeting, COVID-19 was an underlying cause of death for 152 children under 18 years of age between September 2023 and August 2024. “About 4 of every 10 children hospitalized with COVID-19 did not have any pre-existing conditions,” Moser told us. 

 

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https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-jr-misleads-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-children/

 

 

 

I thought that " factcheck.org had been discredited on numerous issues. Or is that the BBC factcheck?

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2 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

A joke? So you consider the death of children a joke?

Not the deaths of children  the idea that Covid caused their death is a joke  (mostly)

children have a minuscule risk from Covid-19   this has been known for a long time now.

Many more children die from war,malnutrition and contaminated water than from Covid-19

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20 minutes ago, johng said:

Not the deaths of children  the idea that Covid caused their death is a joke  (mostly)

children have a minuscule risk from Covid-19   this has been known for a long time now.

Many more children die from war,malnutrition and contaminated water than from Covid-19

And a great many of them died from other things before vaccines.

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1 hour ago, johng said:

Children have a minuscule risk from Covid-19  known from the very beginning.

 

March 2020 report issued by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team

Source:  https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-03-16-COVID19-Report-9.pdf

 

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As previously noted when this poster has posted this same bogus chart before, these aren't any actual numbers based on COVID outcomes, but rather, are PROJECTIONS done by UK academics in the very first few months of the COVID pandemic (March 2020), before things really spread and exploded, disease-wise.

 

The chart above means nothing and is irrelevant to what actually happened during a now 5-plus year-long pandemic.

 

Here's real, actual numbers on COVID's impact on children in the U.S.:

 

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]

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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.

 

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

 

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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

 

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

 

AND as previously posted above:

 

According to provisional CDC data presented in the last ACIP meeting, COVID-19 was an underlying cause of death for 152 children under 18 years of age between September 2023 and August 2024. “About 4 of every 10 children hospitalized with COVID-19 did not have any pre-existing conditions,” Moser told us. 

 

(more)

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-jr-misleads-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-children/

 

 

 

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23 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

As previously noted when this poster has posted this same bogus chart before, these aren't any actual numbers based on COVID outcomes, but rather, are PROJECTIONS done by UK academics in the very first few months of the COVID pandemic (March 2020), before things really spread and exploded, disease-wise.

 

The chart above means nothing and is irrelevant to what actually happened during a now 5-plus year-long pandemic.

 

Here's real, actual numbers on COVID's impact on children in the U.S.:

 

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

 

AND

 

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

 

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

 

AND as previously posted above:

 

According to provisional CDC data presented in the last ACIP meeting, COVID-19 was an underlying cause of death for 152 children under 18 years of age between September 2023 and August 2024. “About 4 of every 10 children hospitalized with COVID-19 did not have any pre-existing conditions,” Moser told us. 

 

(more)

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-jr-misleads-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-children/

 

 

 

 

Those 152 deaths are a miniscule amount of the total death of children. But for some reason that doesn't matter. All that matters is scary covid.

 

Thousands die every year. But not from covid.

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Always looking to deflect to something else, and try to ignore the COVID deaths and hospitalizations staring you in the face:

 

Through much of the pandemic, COVID was in the top 10 causes of death among children, and it was not just children with severe comorbidities. There were, unfortunately, lots of pediatric deaths, many of them in healthy children — and certainly, you know, thousands of hospitalizations as well.”

 

--Dr. Sean O’Leary, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-jr-misleads-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-children/

 

Unlike some here, I take public health seriously, and consider all needless and preventable deaths that weren't prevented as tragedies, whether they're from COVID, the flu, measles or other maladies. 

 

 

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Personal attack has been removed

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COVID #7 overall cause of death among U.S. children age 10 to 14, 2021-2022. And #4 cause among diseases, after only cancer, congenital disorders and heart disease:

 

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1017954/distribution-of-the-10-leading-causes-of-death-among-children-ten-to-

fourteen/

 

Not so "miniscule":

 

Year 2021:

 

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"COVID-19 remained the third leading cause for the total
population in 2021, but its rank varied by age. COVID-19 was
the second leading cause of death for age group 25–44 (10.7%
of deaths) and the third leading cause for age groups 45–64
(15.9%), 65 and older (11.3%), and 85 and older (8.6%).
COVID-19 ranked fifth for age group 10–24 (3.5%) and sixth
for age group 1–9 (1.9%). 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-04.pdf

 

 

Year 2022:

 

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"COVID-19 was the fourth leading cause for the total
population in 2022, but its rank varied by age. The highest rank

for COVID-19 among age groups was third for age 65 and older,
accounting for 6.0% of all deaths. The lowest rank for COVID-19
was seventh for ages 1–9, 10–24, and 25–44, accounting for
2.4%, 1.3%, and 2.9% of all deaths, respectively."

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-10.pdf

 

 

 

 

Posted
3 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Those 152 deaths are a miniscule amount of the total death of children. But for some reason that doesn't matter. All that matters is scary covid.

 

Thousands die every year. But not from covid.

And none from the Covid vaccines.

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