Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines and ended the FDA’s broader authorization of the shots, only clearing them for people at higher risk of severe illness.
“I promised 4 things,” Kennedy Jr. said in a post on X. “1. to end covid vaccine mandates. 2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies. 4. to end the emergency.”
He added: “In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished all four goals. The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded.”
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