Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday said the covid-19 vaccine will no longer be recommended for pregnant women and healthy children.

Alongside Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Kennedy announced the update in a video posted to the social media platform X.

“As of today, the covid vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule,” Kennedy said. “Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another covid shot, despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.

“We’re now one step closer to realizing President Trump’s promise to make American healthy again.”

Supporting Kennedy, Bhattacharya said, “It’s common sense and it’s good science.”

Makary said there is no evidence that healthy children need the vaccine.

“Most countries have stopped recommending it for children,” he said.

Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Pittsburgh-based infectious disease specialist, disagreed with Kennedy’s recommendations.

“These are bad recommendations that no one should follow,” Adjala said Tuesday. “This decision should be viewed exclusively as the actions of a nihilistic anti-vaccine advocacy who unfortunately has the ability to wield government power.”

Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said pregnancy is a high-risk condition for covid, and that healthy children benefit from initial covid vaccines.

The recommendation comes just one week after the Trump administration limited access to covid-19 shots for healthy adults and children.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel is set to meets in June to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among its options are suggesting shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.