US CDC keeps recommendation of Covid-19 vaccines for healthy kids
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr had earlier said the CDC would stop recommending routine Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. PHOTO: REUTERS
US CDC keeps recommendation of Covid-19 vaccines for healthy kids
WASHINGTON - The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is still recommending Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children, according to its latest published immunisation schedule.
The schedule, published late on May 29 by the public health agency, comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr - alongside the heads of the FDA and the National Institutes of Health - earlier this week said the CDC would stop recommending routine Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
The makers of Covid-19 vaccines sold in the US - Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax - did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
Mr Kennedy Jr, FDA commissioner Marty Makary and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya had said in a video that the shots were removed from the CDC's recommended immunisation schedule.
The CDC, following its panel of outside experts, previously recommended updated Covid-19 vaccines for everyone aged six months and older, and current recommendations are in line with those made before. REUTERS
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