The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine COVID-19 shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a Tuesday morning post on X.

“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,” Kennedy said in a video, flanked by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya.

“It’s common sense, and it’s good science,” said Bhattacharya.

NIH typically is not involved in vaccine regulation. The FDA decides whether to approve a vaccine; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decides who

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