The New Mexico Department of Health is awaiting notification from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before changing its advice on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, a spokesman said Thursday.

So far, the federal agency hasn't even updated its own website with the recommendations Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced May 27.

In a video posted that day on X, Kennedy said he "couldn't be more pleased to announce" the COVID-19 vaccine had been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women.

"We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to Make America Healthy Again," Kennedy said in the video. But the announcement sparked outrage from pediatricians and public health experts

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