Turning Point USA

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) will no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine to healthy children and pregnant women on its recommended immunization schedule. 

This announcement was made in a nearly minute-long video by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Alongside Secretary Kennedy were Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Director of the Director for the National Institutes of Health Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. 

“Last year the Biden admin urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot, despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children,” Kennedy said. 

“With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, it is time to move forward. HHS and the CDC remain committed to gold standard science and to ensuring the health and well-being of all Americans — especially our nation’s children — using common sense,” a DHS spokesperson commented. 

On Tuesday, the FDA announced that COVID booster vaccines will be limited in terms of who is most apt to receive them. Those who are 65 years and older, or have underlying medical conditions, are the primary target for the vaccine. Others outside of these demographics will face limitations in availability to get boosters. This policy was based on a study conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine — and co-authored by Commissioner Makary — which states:

“[T]he FDA anticipates that it will be able to make favorable benefit–risk findings for adults over the age of 65 years and for all persons above the age of 6 months with one or more risk factors that put them at high risk for severe Covid-19 outcomes, as described by the CDC,” the study says. “For all healthy persons — those with no risk factors for severe Covid-19 — between the ages of 6 months and 64 years, the FDA anticipates the need for randomized, controlled trial data evaluating clinical outcomes before Biologics License Applications can be granted,” and vaccines administered.