Sophie Gardner

1 week ago | politico.com | Sophie Gardner

An update to the CDC’s website shows that children “may” get the Covid vaccine if their parents and doctors want them to. A recommendation that pregnant women get the vaccine has been removed, and it is now listed as “No Guidance/Not Applicable.” | Mary Conlon/AP An update to the CDC’s vaccine schedule seems to contradict Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to only recommend their use to children with underlying conditions.

1 week ago | politico.com | Sophie Gardner |David Lim

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the decision without waiting for an agency advisory panel to vote. Kennedy's policy aligns with much of the world on children's vaccination, but not pregnant women's. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The CDC is no longer recommending that “healthy” children and pregnant women get vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a post on X from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Sophie Gardner |David Lim

The CDC is no longer recommending that “healthy” children and pregnant women get vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a post on X from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The CDC had recommended the vaccine to everyone at least six months old, including during pregnancy. Kennedy has long said that Covid vaccines are not safe, despite the medical consensus.

1 week ago | politico.com | Sophie Gardner

“I can’t tell you how many media calls we got after that report was released, because I think it was a shocking number to people, and they wanted to know what’s going on,” said Amy Hill, who works on Chicago’s water safety task force, referring to a CDC study released last May. “When the CDC issues a report like that, people pay attention.” States will continue to report drownings through the CDC’s National Vital Statistics System, but the data will no longer have a team to analyze it.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Sophie Gardner

1 hour agoA small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cutsHAMILTON, Mont. — Scientists are often careful to take off their work badges when they leave the campus of one of the nation's top biomedical research facilities, here in southwestern Montana's Bitterroot Valley.