BREAKING: CDC Removes COVID-19 Vaccine from Childhood and Pregnancy Schedule

HHS Secretary Kennedy, NIH Direct Dr. Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary announce removal of COVID-19 Vaccine from Childhood immunization schedule. Click to view.

In a major shift, the CDC has removed the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women from its recommended immunization schedule. This change reflects growing international consensus and increasing scrutiny over the necessity and safety of routine COVID shots for low-risk populations.

Bottom line: It’s common sense. It’s good science. And it’s long overdue.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called it what it is: a necessary course correction.

But what does this mean practically?

THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER

With just one update to the vaccine schedule—removing the COVID-19 shot—the CDC’s total recommended childhood vaccinations dropped from a shocking 72 to a still-staggering 53 shots. And it gets more eye-opening:

• 1 COVID shot accounted for 19 doses from birth through age 17

• 22 doses including pregnancy:

  • 3 during pregnancy

  • 25 by age 1

  • 35 by age 4

• Of the 53 total, 40 are boosters

• 16 doses are required for K–6 school entry in many states—10 of those are boosters

This is not a public health policy—it’s overreach. CDC guidelines are recommendations. If the state wants to adhere to CDC guidelines, the state should adopt the schedule as recommendations, not impose sanctions on doctors regarding vaccines, and ensure consumer protections of informed consent, opt out rights, and privacy protections. It’s time for California to guarantee that opt-out rights and reasonable accommodations are the standard of care.

THE IPA MISSION: INFORMED POLICY FOR CALIFORNIA

At Informed Policy Advocates, we believe in science-backed legislation that respects civil rights, informed consent, and medical consumer protections.

Our mission is clear:

• Inform legislators with facts—not pharma lobby talking points

• Empower families to make personal health decisions without coercion

• Restore parental rights in California's public health and education systems

• Make health freedom and bodily autonomy nonpartisan, nonnegotiable values

This CDC update gives us real momentum. Now it’s time to act.

CALL TO ACTION: WE NEED YOU IN THIS FIGHT

Email your legislator today and demand an update to California’s school vaccine requirements.
This is the message we must get into every legislator’s office:

Let them know if you want California to update its school vaccine requirements. Following CDC guidelines means making the policy a recommendation, not a requirement. This is a simple request as a lesson learned from the unintended consequences of fear driven medical mandates imposed on the people during the pandemic. Lesson learned is previous policies, which included opt out rights and were least restrictive, were effective as school transmission was not an identified issue in the CDC after action report. Lesson learned is that people need to be protected as consumers of medical interventions, including vaccines and one’s right to opt out with reasonable accommodations.

Donate to Informed Policy Advocates so we can continue our full-time advocacy at the Capitol.

Or better yet—do both: Contact your legislators AND Donate to have the IPA lobby team meet with legislators and the capitol staff to advocate for change regarding vaccine policies. Together, we will make a change.

The IPA Lobby Team is on the ground and fighting every day to fix medical mandate policies in California. We know where the cracks are, and we’re building legislative solutions from the inside out. People lost their jobs, didn’t finish school with their classmates, or were denied public access because of their medical status. Knowing that the legislators often defer to the CDC and FDA, this update in the CDC’s recommendations points to the need to protect the people as consumers because people lost their jobs, school placement, medical care, or public access based on their medical status. Informed consent and privacy rights matter, and we want the state to enforce those rights.

Visit InformedPolicyAdvocates.org to join the movement, take action, and help make California a leader in medical freedom, not medical force.

Together, we can tip the scales. Let’s finish what this CDC rollback started.

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