Vinay Prasad on the Childhood COVID Vaccine Schedule: warns against

What Prasad says

Dr. Vinay Prasad warns against keeping COVID-19 on the childhood immunization schedule. In a May 2025 Substack post, reported by Reuters, he said the CDC “should ABSOLUTELY remove COVID-19 from the Childhood Immunization schedule,” describing the process that kept it there as “corrupt.”

His stated reasoning

Prasad’s stated reasoning is that there is no randomized trial evidence supporting routine COVID vaccination of children. Keeping it on the schedule without that evidence, he says, reflects a regulatory process captured by interests other than the data.

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