US CDC changes language, keeps modified recommendation of COVID vaccines for healthy kids

CDC removes language that says healthy kids and pregnant women should get COVID shots The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations. AP News

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 website sends a more nuanced message, saying shots “may” be given to those groups.

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