STAT+: HHS to stop recommending routine Covid shots for children, pregnant people, RFK Jr. ally says
A change in recommending Covid vaccines for children and pregnant women would circumvent an expert panel but please many MAHA fans.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that the Department of Health and Human Services will stop recommending Covid vaccines for children and pregnant people, a close Kennedy ally said Thursday.
The news arrived between panels at a daylong event marking the launch of a new Make America Healthy Again-affiliated think tank called the MAHA Institute.
“Something just happened that’s really special. I was asked to please make this announcement,” Executive Director Leland Lehrman told attendees. “You might’ve already heard, but today the secretary is announcing that HHS and the CDC are going to stop recommending routine Covid shots for children and pregnant women.”
