US EditionCDC keeps recommendation of COVID vaccines for healthy kids after RFK Jr. said it would be removed
- In 2025, the CDC updated its recommendations to indicate that COVID-19 vaccines may be administered to healthy young individuals from six months old through adolescence in the United States.
- This update followed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement in a Tuesday video that COVID-19 vaccines would no longer be advised for children without underlying health conditions and for expectant mothers.
- The CDC now uses shared decision-making, letting parents consult doctors about vaccinating children, while retaining vaccine payment requirements for insurers.
- CDC data reveals that uptake of the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine remains low, with just 13% of children and 23% of adults having been vaccinated.
- Experts expect the June CDC advisory panel to recommend fall shots focused on high-risk groups, especially people 65 and older, reflecting waning pandemic risk.
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Texas Wesleyan still requires COVID-19 vaccine of nursing students
‘For years, the science has been clear that healthy young adults never needed C19 vaccines,’ advocate says Texas Wesleyan University still appears to be requiring students in its nursing program to get COVID-19 vaccines, prompting criticism from a doctor and healthcare advocate. Dr. Mary Bowden, a Houston, Texas physician, recently criticized the requirement in a post on X. Source
Will Kids Still Be Able to Get COVID Shots?
Photo: Catherine Fall/Getty Images Despite his previous promise not to “take away anybody’s vaccines,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems determined to use his role as Health and Human Services secretary to create as much confusion about COVID vaccines as possible. In a video posted to X last week, Kennedy said he “couldn’t be more pleased” to announce that “the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC…
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RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need COVID boosters. What the science says
By Jackie Fortiér, Kaiser Health News You’re pregnant, healthy and hearing mixed messages: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don’t need the COVID vaccine, but experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Protection still put you in a high-risk group of people who ought to receive boosters. The science is on the side of the shots. Pregnant women who contracted COVID-19 were mor…
Editorial: COVID vaccine announcement another assault
Striking a blow for deadly disease and against public health, our dangerous Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., flanked by doctors including National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya — handpicked for his vaccine-skeptic approach
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