The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its immunization schedule for children, days after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 vaccines would be struck from the list of recommended shots for healthy children and pregnant women.

Children will be able to get the vaccines after consulting with a health care provider — what’s known as “shared decision-making.” For pregnant women, there’s less guidance; spaces advising that group on the Adult and Child Immunization Schedules are now shaded gray for COVID-19 vaccines “to reflect no guidance/recommendation,” according to an email sent by the CDC on Friday.

But the changes — posted two days after Kennedy’s surprise 58-second social media announcement that the vaccines w

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