Trump HHS ends nearly $1 billion in funding to Moderna for mRNA bird flu vaccines, citing safety concerns and lack of oversight around the new mRNA vaccine technology.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that kids with no underlying health conditions "may receive" COVID-19 vaccines, dropping a broad recommendation for all children to get vaccinated against the virus.

The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes to how Covid-19 vaccines are approved and the groups they are recommended for.

Pediatric and OB-GYN health care providers react to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s announcement on COVID-19 vaccine recommendations.

In a Substack post, Paul Offit, MD, a vaccine expert at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, noted how unusual it was that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would "unilaterally eliminate" COVID shots from the childhood immunization schedule -- "without input from vaccine advisory committees and without allowing for public comment."

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