Covid-19 shots for healthy children remain on CDC vaccine schedule despite Kennedy’s pledge to remove them

(CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its immunization schedule for children after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement this week that Covid-19 vaccines would be removed from the list of recommended shots for healthy children and pregnant women. However, the vaccines remain on the schedule for kids, although with a slightly different designation.

Instead of being listed as “recommended” by the CDC, they are now listed as “recommended vaccination based on shared clinical decision-making,” meaning healthy children – those who don’t have an underlying condition that raises their risk of severe illness – can get the shots after consulting with a health care provider.

According to the CDC, such a provider would be anyone