The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer recommend the COVID mRNA injection for healthy children and pregnant women in its immunization schedule, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said Tuesday in a video posted online.
“I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule,” Kennedy said as he was joined by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary.
Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again. pic.twitter.com/Ytch2afCLP
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 27, 2025
“Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot, despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children,” the secretary explained.
“That ends today,” Bhattacharya then stated in the video. “It’s common sense, and it’s good science.”
Makary then added that “[t]here’s no evidence healthy kids need it today, and most countries have stopped recommending it for children.”
“We’re now one step closer to realizing President Trump’s promise to make America healthy again,” Kennedy concluded in the video.
The announcement comes after a Senate subcommittee hearing exposed “the corruption of science and federal health agencies” that led to a cover-up of adverse events tied to the mRNA shots. In addition, a paper authored by Makary and vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad recently announced the FDA only be recommending the COVID shots for those “at risk” for severe illness – a category that included pregnant women, those who have been recently pregnant, and children above the age of six months.
The hearing, chaired by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, specifically exposed how an alliance between federal health agencies and the pharmaceutical industry hid the potential dangers of the shots, even as many Americans were mandated to take them to keep their jobs, attend school, and visit their loved ones in hospitals and assisted living facilities.
In their paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Makary and Prasad asserted that pharmaceutical companies would now be required to conduct more trials on the mRNA shots to determine clinical outcomes in order to license them for use on those with no “risk factors.”
“Hallelujah!” Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said Tuesday. “These dangerous, poorly tested shots have caused injuries and death to far too many children. And many of the vaccines’ long-term side effects remain unknown. This is a major step in the right direction.”
Holland explained that CHD “urged the CDC not to add these dangerous vaccines to the childhood schedule.”
“When we were ignored, we fought relentlessly to get them removed,” she said. “This is a victory for all children and pregnant women.”
Other health observers are hopeful the shots will ultimately be eliminated for all – even those considered “at risk” or not “healthy.”
“I’d like to ask what evidence there is for any COVID vaccine in children, whether healthy or not,” Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), commented to Lumen-News. “It is generally not a good idea to vaccinate sick people.”
“Remember that the subjects in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are human beings, not lab rats,” she further noted. “What is the justification for exposing them to unknown risks to test something that will not benefit them?”
In his column, physician and scientist Dr. Robert Malone wrote after Kennedy’s Tuesday announcement that, while the incremental process of withdrawing the COVID shots from the market has been frustrating for some, ultimately the Trump administration is actually moving faster than he expected.
“Like many, I would prefer that these COVID gene therapy-based technology products that cause your entire body to manufacture the genetically modified, highly toxic SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for extended periods be withdrawn from the US market,” Malone explained. “But for one brief moment, let’s celebrate the win. This is progress. This is the consequence of new leadership at HHS doing what it can to Make America (and its children) Healthy Again.”