CDC Panel Ends Universal Covid Vaccine Recommendation

A panel of new vaccine advisers picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Friday to end the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with medical professionals instead.

Covid shots have been in the crosshairs since Kennedy, a vaccine critic, was named health secretary.

“We think it is appropriate to be discussed between a medical provider and a patient,” said panelist Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the leader ...