Kennedy said the vaccine would no longer be recommended for "healthy pregnant women," but it was unclear who would qualify as pregnancy itself is considered a risk factor 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.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped recommending routine COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant women and healthy children, U.S. health regulators said on Tuesday. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a video posted on social media platform X that the vaccines have been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for those groups. Kennedy, a long-time vaccine skeptic whose department oversees the CDC, has been remaking the U.S. health system to align with President Donald Trump's goal of dramatically shrinking the federal government. "We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again," Kennedy said.

The move comes one week after top health officials signaled that they planned to tighten access to the annual COVID-19 booster shot, which is still recommended for elderly and at-risk populations. Previously, COVID-19 vaccines had been recommended for everyone six months and older. Under the framework announced last week, the administration will allow seniors 65 and older and other high-risk populations to receive the COVID booster shot but require more stringent testing for other populations before recommending it for them. Kennedy and many of his fellow top health officials, such as Makary and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, have long raised suspicions about distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to low-risk populations.

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CDC data found vaccination coverage among kindergartners across the US dropped to 92.7% for measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. During the 2023 to 2024 school year. COVID-19 vaccine will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women.