For more than five years, the government and doctors have recommended that getting the COVID vaccine could not only save your life, but also help protect your family's lives.
The official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation, as late as June 2025, was that all Americans six months and older should get the vaccine. But under President Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recommendations have changed dramatically.
The CDC, along with the Food and Drug Administration, now recommends the COVID vaccines for people 65 and over as well as for people ages 5 to 64 with at least one underlying condition that increases their risk of severe COVID.
The commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health, Dr. Brooke Cunningham, says the depa