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.

"I couldn't be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC-recommended immunization schedule," Kennedy said, claiming that last year the "Biden administration urged healthy children to get another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children."

"That ends today," Bhattacharya said. "It's common sen

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