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- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends COVID-19 vaccines for healthy pregnant women and children, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday.
- HHS-controlled CDC has made appropriate changes to the agency’s recommended immunization schedule, removing pregnant women and children from groups eligible to receive the shots, RFK Jr. wrote on social media platform X. “Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science,” the former presidential candidate added.
- According to the prior CDC recommendations, everyone aged six months and older, including pregnant women, had to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
- “We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS ’s promise to Make America Healthy Again,” said RFK Jr., referring to a key campaign promise of President Donald Trump.
- COVID-19 vaccine makers: Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)/ BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX).
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