C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely counters Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.

The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for children 6 months to 17 years old with a new condition. Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor or provider, which the agency calls “shared decision-making.”

The shots will also continue to be available under those terms to about 38 million low-income children who rely on the Vaccines for Children program, according to an emailed update from the C.D.C. on Friday.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/cdc-covid-vaccines-children-pregnant-women.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

[Demovictory9]

1. Someone will get fired

[highplainsdem]

4. I hope not, but it would be typical of the idiot Trump regime.

[red dog 1]

2. RFK Jr is insane...period!

(It could be due to that worm in his brain)

[Paladin]

3. Thank you, CDC!

Way past time for medical competency and common sense to be restored to this beleaguered nation's health policy---particularly when the lives of children are involved. RFK jr. ought to be driven out of D.C. on a rail, preferably no later than this evening...

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. RFK Jr. ignores advice from experts in the CDC

and elsewhere. He and Trump have nothing but contempt for science and scientists. As a result, the USA is now less healthy than it was a year ago. Our health will continue to deteriorate as long as such people are in power.