T he U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and healthy children, the U.S. Secretary of Health and

The CDC dropped its recommendation that healthy children and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 shots, health regulators announced. In a video posted to X, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared alongside NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, announcing that the recommendations had changed.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he would remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation for children and healthy pregnant women to get vaccinated for COVID-19.