Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for "healthy children and healthy pregnant women" follows years of spurious and misleading claims he made about the vaccine.

Kennedy also gleefully said he was revoking recommendations for vaccinating healthy children. But the CDC's edited immunization schedule did not remove the recommendation outright; rather, it simply added a stipulation that a child's doctor and parents agree on the vaccination, described as "shared clinical decision-making."

Kennedy Jr. that the CDC was reversing Covid-19 vaccine guidance was promptly contradicted by the agency he oversees as health secretary.