05/28/2025

COVID Vaccines No Longer Recommended for Healthy Children and Pregnant Women, RFK, Jr. Says

The statement stands in opposition to previous CDC advice

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK, Jr.) on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women — a move immediately questioned by several public health experts.

In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC appeared in the video; CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

No other details were released; HHS officials did not immediately respond to questions about how the decision was made.

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