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The CDC will retain the COVID-19 vaccine on the general immunization schedule for children.

The agency qualified the move with a 'shared decision-making' between parents and health care providers.

The vaccines will continue to be available to 38 million participants in the 'Vaccines for Children' program.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement Tuesday that the COVID-19 vaccine would come off the immunization schedule for children caused a stir among medical groups and others.

Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seemingly contradicted the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, under whose purview federal public health agencies including their own fall.

As The New York Times reported Friday, “The agency kept COVID shots on the schedule for healthy ch

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