Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

Kennedy also gleefully said he was revoking recommendations for vaccinating healthy children. But the CDC's edited immunization schedule did not remove the recommendation outright; rather, it simply added a stipulation that a child's doctor and parents agree on the vaccination, described as "shared clinical decision-making."

Makary was accurate when he said that "most countries have stopped recommending" routine COVID-19 vaccination for children.