NPR's contemporaneous report on HHS Secretary Kennedy's May 2025 announcement removing COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and pregnant women from the CDC schedule, quoting FDA Commissioner Makary: 'There's no evidence healthy kids need it today.'
as of today the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule
NPR's contemporaneous report on HHS Secretary Kennedy's May 2025 announcement removing COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and pregnant women from the CDC schedule, quoting FDA Commissioner Makary: 'There's no evidence healthy kids need it today.' News record of the policy announcement; the change was made by HHS/FDA/CDC leadership without the usual ACIP vote, a process criticism documented in MME-14.