Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. lied on Twitter/X (below) about keeping “vaccines available to people who want them.”
In reality, he removed emergency use authorizations for the vaccines and is making the life-saving shots the shots more difficult to obtain, notes Stat News:
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated Covid boosters, but removed emergency use authorizations for the vaccines, in a set of moves that could make the shots more difficult to obtain for children under 5, in particular….
Covid vaccine authorizations for all three available vaccines, Kennedy said, would now only be for higher-risk individuals, including those over 65 and those who have risk factors for developing severe Covid. Kennedy said that the Moderna vaccine is approved for those older than 6 months, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for those older than 5 years, and the Novavax shot for those older than 12.
Pfizer said in a press release that its shot, targeted against SARS-CoV-2 sublineage LP.8.1 based on FDA advice, would be approved for those over 65 and for those aged 5 to 64 with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from Covid-19.
In his tweet, RFK Jr falsely claimed that he was removing non-existent “broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration.”
I promised 4 things:
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 27, 2025
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.
In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished…
(Sources: Stat News, Sec. Kennedy/Twitter/X)