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MIAMI, FLORIDA - MAY 29: In this photo illustration, Ruth Jones, Immunization Nurse, holds a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (brand name: Comirnaty) at Borinquen Health Care Center on May 29, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he will no longer recommend that healthy children and pregnant people get COVID-19 shots. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

CDC panel drops COVID-19 recommendation, says decision should be ‘based on individual-based decision-making’

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee unanimously voted to drop its recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine, opting instead to recommend that the vaccine be administered “based on individual-based decision-making.”

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt displays a letter addressed to US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly from President Donald Trump during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 31, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump sends 17 pharmaceutical companies letters calling for them to commit to lowering U.S. prescription drug prices

President Donald Trump sent letters to the CEOs of 17 major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and more – with the letters calling for the companies to commit to lowering U.S. prescription drug prices within 60 days, setting a deadline of September 29th.

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A 6 year-old child is comforted by her mother as she receives her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by medical assistant Alli Shapiro at the Child Health Associates office in Novi, Michigan on November 3, 2021. An expert panel unanimously recommended Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds on November 2, the penultimate step in the process that will allow injections in young children to begin this week in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the top US public health agency, was expected to endorse that recommendation later in the day. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

RFK Jr. Considers Removing CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendation From Children’s Schedules: ‘Kids Had Almost No Risk For COVID-19’

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) is reportedly evaluating the potential removal of COVID-19 vaccines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended immunization schedule for children in the U.S.

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