In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
U.S. health officials, following recommendations by infectious disease experts, have been urging annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans ages 6 months and older.
A CDC advisory panel is set to meets in June to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among its options are suggesting shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.
Hey how’s that measles outbreak going
This about sums up our collective future…
Kennedy just needs to let the worm run things.
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Could we maybe not use ableist slurs?
I’m glad this story is finally getting traction.
I think this makes as much sense as saying you don’t need to disinfect surfaces anymore, because a “surface” is immune from infection.
Mm… he’s an antivax loon but I’d like to remind people that other respected organizations (e.g. WHO) don’t recommend it for healthy children who have had at least one dose. I’m not sure about 2025, but that was the guideline at least back in 2024.
Pregnant women are suggested to have at least a booster, once per pregnancy, though. At least, according to WHO.
That’s actually true:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice
Yes, that’s what I was referring to but wasn’t in a good position to search up for the post. Thank you for sharing it!
No further boosters are currently recommended for healthy adults aged < 60 years and pregnant women.
For infants, (young) children, and adolescents without underlying diseases, no primary or booster COVID-19 vaccination is currently recommended due to the meanwhile predominantly mild course of disease and very low incidence of hospitalization.
i dont actually trust Kennedy to know anything about health though…
lol y’all elected the dude from men in black to lead the fucking health department. bobbly looks like an insect crawled inside him, took over, and is now trying its best to pass as human.
oh, wait
It is not an elected position. We just elected the dumbass who appointed him.
i knew that. i think my brain just skipped a beat. must be my worm
And the fucking morons who confirmed him.
Hey now, no need to insult my boy Edgar.
Private Pyle would probably shoot you for that
I wish hell was real.
Where do you think you are right now?
Somewhere worse.
“Even Jason figured it out?!”
258 million. That is the death count they are looking for.
My husband and I got Covid last week. Probably the new variant. Our latest booster was 6 months ago. This variant KICKED OUR ASS. We are on week 2 of coughing, wheezing, and feeling extremely tired. Lost a bunch of income from our respective businesses because we were not able to do any work at all.
This was a stark reminder of how important it is to keep up with boosters. I hope that we can find a way to keep getting them, even if that means paying out of pocket or lying.
Gotta keep the ambrosia to the elites.
His latest proclamation is he wants anyone with an NIH grant to be required to publish in a gov run journal instead of, say, Lancet or Nature. He feels they are “corrupt” without providing a shred of evidence, never mind they are peer reviewed. So he’d prefer a gov system where papers could be rejected because they don’t align with his conspiracy views and they wouldn’t be allowed to publish elsewhere.
Thank goodness we have the stupid conservatives in power so they can politicize everything.
Agreed. This is not even a political decision. Europe is doing exactly the same
(1) That link is for the Danish Health Authority, not all of Europe. (2) The Danish Health Authority recommends pregnant women get vaccinated, whereas RFK said it will NO LONGER be recommended for pregnant women to get vaccinated. So they are opposite. They align on saying healthy children and under 65 are not being recommended to get vaccination. (3) RFK made it political by making this recommendation BEFORE the public scientific review panel made its analysis of vaccine recommendations for the year. i.e. a political appointee made a decision for a scientific community without their input.
Same in UK including no pregnancies. I’m not going through every country in Europe. The point is that the US rules are not out of step with the rest of the world.
RFK and US medical insurance rules may be crazy, but the science is pretty standard.