US CDC continues to recommend COVID vaccines for children, contradicts Kennedy

31/5/2025 6:20

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children, according to its latest published immunization schedule, contradicting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement on Tuesday that the agency will stop recommendations.



The schedule, published late on Thursday, comes after Kennedy, a long-time vaccine skeptic, and heads of the FDA and the National Institutes of Health said the CDC would stop recommending routine COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.



The makers of COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax — did not immediately respond to requests for comment.



The CDC, following its panel of outside experts, previously recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for everyone aged six months and older, and current recommendations are in line with those made before.