CDC Advisers End Universal Covid Vaccine Recommendations
Joseph Hibbeln during a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in Chamblee, Georgia, on Sept. 18.
Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesMembers of a federal advisory panel hand-selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to end universal access to Covid shots, voting to require Americans to confer with medical professionals before getting immunized.
Covid shots have been in the crosshairs since President Donald Trump named Kennedy, a vaccine critic, the nation’s top health official. Earlier this year, Kennedy unilaterally removed the shots from the list of recommended immunizations for healthy children and pregnant women. A few months later, the US Food and Drug Administration narrowed their approval.