Take it for what it's worth, from Politico via Yahoo... RFK Jr. eyes reversing CDC's Covid-19 vaccine recommendation for children
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing pulling the Covid-19 vaccine from the government’s list of recommended immunizations for children, two people familiar with the discussions told POLITICO.
The directive under consideration would remove the Covid shot from the childhood vaccine schedule maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and widely used by physicians to guide vaccine distribution, marking Kennedy’s most significant move yet to shake up the nation’s vaccination practices.
Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has previously questioned the need for kids to get the shot, raising doubts about its safety and citing studies showing healthy children face an extremely low risk of death from Covid...
"No final decision has been made," HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in response to questions about the vaccine's spot on the childhood schedule.
But Kennedy has advocated internally to take the Covid vaccine off the schedule, the people said, arguing that there is minimal scientific evidence for including it among the earliest vaccines given to kids...
The directive under consideration would remove the Covid shot from the childhood vaccine schedule maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and widely used by physicians to guide vaccine distribution, marking Kennedy’s most significant move yet to shake up the nation’s vaccination practices.
Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has previously questioned the need for kids to get the shot, raising doubts about its safety and citing studies showing healthy children face an extremely low risk of death from Covid...
"No final decision has been made," HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in response to questions about the vaccine's spot on the childhood schedule.
But Kennedy has advocated internally to take the Covid vaccine off the schedule, the people said, arguing that there is minimal scientific evidence for including it among the earliest vaccines given to kids...
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