A wave of outrage is sweeping the scientific and medical world after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to stop recommending routine Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.
Kennedy, a prominent vaccine skeptic, on Tuesday said the Covid shot has been removed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended immunization schedule for those groups. ...Some health experts say the dropped recommendation could have devastating consequences, particularly for pregnant women and their babies.
Both are considered to be at higher risk of severe complications from Covid-19 infections, according to the CDC’s website. That can include preterm labor and birth, heart injury, blood clots and kidney damage among pregnant women.
“As ob-gyns who treat patients every day, we have seen firsthand how dangerous COVID-19 infection can be during pregnancy and for newborns who depend on maternal antibodies from the vaccine for protection,” Steven Fleischman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in a statement.
He emphasized that “the science has not changed.”
