The nation's top public health agency posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get COVID-19 vaccinations, removing stronger language that those groups should get the shots.
The change comes days after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women.
But the updated guidance on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) website sends a more nuanced message, saying shots "may" be given to those groups.
"The announcement from earlier this week sounded like CDC was going to fully withdraw any statement that could be construed as a recommendation for these vaccines in these populations," said Jason Schwartz, a Yale University health policy resear