HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is weighing pulling the COVID-19 vaccine from the government’s list of recommended immunizations for children, two people familiar with the discussions told POLITICO.
The directive under consideration would remove the COVID shot from the childhood vaccine schedule maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and widely used by physicians to guide vaccine distribution, marking Kennedy’s most significant move yet to shake up the nation’s vaccination practices.
Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine and conspiracy theory activist, has previously questioned the need for kids to get the shot, raising doubts about its safety and citing studies showing healthy children face an extremely low risk of death from COVID.
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