The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its childhood vaccination schedule to say that healthy children “may receive” Covid shots — softened from its previous stance calling for them — after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it would no longer be recommended.
When a parent wants “their child to be vaccinated, children 6 months and older may receive Covid-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a health-care provider,” the CDC website now says. It had previously recommended that everyone aged six months and older get vaccinated.
Kennedy’s announcement in a social media post ...
