Kennedy Jr.'s announcement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for "healthy children and healthy pregnant women" follows years of spurious and misleading claims he made about the vaccine.

“By removing the recommendation, the decision could strip families of choice,” said O’Leary. “What is clear is that pregnant women, infants and young children are at higher risk of hospitalization from COVID, and the safety of the COVID vaccine has been widely demonstrated.”