Defying RFK Jr, pediatric group urges COVID shots for young kids

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children ages 6 months to 23 months old receive a coronavirus vaccine as federal officials move to roll back recommendations.

 

August 19, 2025

 

"The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.

 

The AAP is recommending that all children ages 6 months through 23 months receive a coronavirus vaccine to help protect against serious illness. Children in that age group are especially vulnerable to becoming hospitalized for covid, the AAP said in its vaccine guidance for parents and pediatricians ahead of the fall-winter respiratory season."

 

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Washington Post

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U.S. pediatrics group defies CDC and recommends COVID shots for young children

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"Additionally, AAP recommends a single COVID vaccine dose for all children and adolescents aged 2-18 years who belong to several risk groups, such as those who have never been immunized for COVID. It also recommends COVID shots for others in the age group if their parent or guardian requests such immunization.

 

The update “differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation,” AAP said.

 

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https://seekingalpha.com/news/4487026-pediatrics-group-defies-cdc-recommends-covid-shots-for-kids

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The news above is part of a broader trend and pattern emerging in the U.S. public health community, where many private medical and public health associations have begun collaborating to make their own recommended vaccination policies -- in the wake of RFK Jr. recently summarily firing all members of the CDC's independent vaccines advisory panel and replacing them with his hand-picked assortment of anti-vaxers and vaccine skeptics / misinformation spreaders.

 

The various public health and medical associations have spoken publicly about their plans to lobby and work with the various major private health insurers in the U.S. to have them continue to cover vaccinations recommended by the country's medical and public health expert organizations, regardless of what RFK Jr's newly formed advisory group recommends.

 

Per the above Washington Post report:

 

"The AAP and other professional organizations have been holding discussions with insurance companies to continue covering the shots based on guidance from professional associations rather than the federal government.

 

O’Leary said insurers “are signaling that they are committed to covering our recommendations.” AHIP, the major insurance lobby, has said its members are committed to continue paying for respiratory virus vaccines this season."

 

https://archive.ph/bPtpr

 

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-Immunization-Schedule.pdf