What to know about the significant change to CDC guidelines for COVID vaccine

This morning, public health officials questioning Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy kids and pregnant women. Children and pregnant people are particularly vulnerable to COVID illness. COVID vaccine is safe and it's effective and it's a much safer way to learn the immunity of CO. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, making the announcement yesterday after repeatedly saying during his confirmation process he would do nothing that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines. I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule. Kennedy standing alongside the FDA commissioner. There's no evidence healthy kids need it today and most countries have stopped recommending it for children. But the leading OBGYn association warning it is very clear that CO 19 infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic. The Trump administration now accused of bypassing the traditional independent review process, including recommendations from medical experts. This decision was made without any input from the typical groups that provide guidance to the FDA around vaccination decisionmaking and as far as I can recall and I've been in practice over 30 years that sort of uh process has not been undertaken before. Medical experts say the new guidelines will remove a health care choice for families and impact access as some insurance companies could opt not to pay for the vaccine. Perry Russ, ABC News, Washington.