Covid vaccines for pregnant women, healthy kids are no longer recommended by CDC, RFK Jr. says

Covid vaccines for pregnant women, healthy kids are no longer recommended by CDC, RFK Jr. says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.

“We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again,” he said in a post on X.

Kennedy said the vaccine would no longer be recommended for "healthy pregnant women," but it was unclear who would qualify. The CDC lists pregnancy as a condition that puts people at high risk for Covid complications.

The change from the CDC comes a week after Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced the agency planned to restrict the use of Covid shots to older adults and children and adults with underlying medical conditions.

New Covid shots for healthy children and adults will need to go through lengthy placebo-controlled clinical trials before they can get approved.