Taking Away COVID Vaccines is Neither Common Sense Nor Good Science
Secretary RFK Jr couldn’t be more pleased that he is taking COVID vaccines away from healthy children and pregnant women.
Will he be just as pleased when unvaccinated and unprotected healthy children start dying with COVID?
Taking Away COVID Vaccines is Neither Common Sense Nor Good Science
To begin with, folks should remember that it is usually the ACIP committee that makes recommendations about who should get vaccines.
And while the ACIP workgroup on COVID vaccines was almost certainly moving away from universal recommendations, that doesn’t mean that they would have taken them away from all children and pregnant women.
After all, infants less than six months are at high risk to be hospitalized if they get COVID, and they rely on extra protection from their vaccinated mothers.
Children between the ages of six months and four years are also at high risk for hospitalization.
Why?
Unlike older children and adults who may have already been vaccinated or might have had COVID already, these younger children are still getting COVID for the first time!
And also unlike older children, many are otherwise healthy, without any underlying medical conditions.
“Fewer than 5% of children and adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 had received the most recently recommended COVID-19 vaccination during the 23-24 season.”
COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations — COVID-NET, April 2025 Update
Lastly, while Secretary RFK Jr talks about ‘good science,’ know that he is ignoring all the science that has already been published!
Science that went through the CDC systemic review process.
Science that has not changed!
Science that won’t be ignored.
And he is ignoring the advice of most experts.
“This decision bypasses a long-established, evidence-based process used to ensure vaccine safety and ignores the expertise of independent medical experts, including members of CDC committees who are examining the evidence regarding the vaccine to make recommendations for the fall.
By removing the recommendation, the decision could strip families of choice. Those who want to vaccinate may no longer be able to, as the implications for insurance coverage remain unclear. It's also unclear whether health care workers would be eligible to be vaccinated. What is clear is that pregnant women, infants and young children are at higher risk of hospitalization from COVID, and the safety of the COVID vaccine has been widely demonstrated.”
Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases
Experts who reaffirm that COVID vaccines should remain available for children and pregnant women.
Even as we are already seeing new strains of COVID getting people sick.
References
Use of 2025–2026 COVID-19 Vaccines: Work Group Considerations https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-04-15-16/05-Panagiotakopoulos-COVID-508.pdf
COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations — COVID-NET, April 2025 Update https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-04-15-16/03-Havers-COVID-508.pdf
ACOG Statement on HHS Recommendations Regarding the COVID Vaccine During Pregnancy https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2025/05/acog-statement-on-hhs-recommendations-regarding-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy
Of course, if the rate of infection and deaths increases, if children get sick and die, they will simply blame something else. Probably other vaccines.
Rfkjr began his Death Maker Career in his tragic interference of his misinformation in Samoa 2019.
Now that he heads the HHE. He is certainly America's Death Maker.
Rfkjr has no medical degree & no understanding of medical science. The Malific liar only has the ability to memorize gobs of medical jargon..which he constantly spews.
Rfkjr is dangerous & treacherous when it comes to the health & well being of all Americans.
And the Republicans in Congress look away.