CDC Shifts Child Covid Vaccination Guidance After RFK Jr. Post

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its childhood vaccination schedule to say that healthy children “may receive” Covid shots — softened from its previous stance calling for them — after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it would no longer be recommended.

When a parent wants “their child to be vaccinated, children 6 months and older may receive Covid-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a health-care provider,” the CDC website now says. It had previously recommended that everyone aged six months and older get vaccinated.

Kennedy’s announcement in a social media post ...