Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was contradicted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency that he oversees, just days after he announced a new national COVID-19 vaccine policy. On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s health secretary revealed that the CDC would no longer advise healthy children and healthy pregnant women to receive the COVID vaccine—reversing its longstanding guidance.

Kennedy also gleefully said he was revoking recommendations for vaccinating healthy children. But the CDC's edited immunization schedule did not remove the recommendation outright; rather, it simply added a stipulation that a child's doctor and parents agree on the vaccination, described as "shared clinical decision-making."