If you thought the left-wing American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) couldn’t do any more to discredit itself as a legitimate medical organization, think again.
On Tuesday, the nation’s largest pediatrics association revealed that it is bucking guidance from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by recommending Covid shots for infants and young children. The advisement was included in the AAP’s newly released immunization schedule for all children under the age of 18.
“Infants and children 6 through 23 months of age are at the highest risk for severe COVID-19,” the APP claimed in its press release. “Given this, the AAP recommends a COVID-19 vaccine for all children ages 6 through 23 months old to help protect against serious illness. Children younger than 2 years old are especially vulnerable to severe COVID-19 and should be prioritized for vaccination unless they have a known allergy to the vaccine or its ingredients.”
On May 27, Kennedy, standing alongside National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, announced that the Covid shot for healthy children and pregnant women had been removed from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule due to a lack of clinical data to justify continued recommendation.
“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,” Kennedy said, with Bhattacharya and Makary echoing similar sentiments.
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In its Tuesday press release, the AAP took an indirect jab at Kennedy and his decision to fire and replace members of the CDC’s Committee on Immunization Practices. Noting the differences between it and the ACIP’s recommendations, the pediatrics group claimed Kennedy’s new hires “have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.”
As it turns out, the only one still spreading medical “misinformation” is the American Academy of Pediatrics.
As The Federalist previously reported, it has long been established that healthy children are the least at-risk demographic when it comes to Covid mortality. The AAP’s new guidance is even more disturbing when considering the potential risks associated with giving minors Covid shots — risks which the Biden administration downplayed during the jabs’ 2021 distribution.
[READ: Biden Admin ‘Ignored’ Vaccine Safety Protocols To Fast-Track Its Covid Shot Mandates]
The AAP’s refusal to “follow the science” is hardly exclusive to Covid, however. The pediatrics giant also has a reported history of prioritizing leftist politics over facts-based medicine on a host of other fronts.
In summer 2022, the AAP published an article calling to advance so-called “reproductive justice” in pediatric training. As Olivia Hajicek previously summarized in these pages, the piece also pushed for “pediatricians helping minors get abortions without their parents’ knowledge.”
The AAP has furthermore espoused support for “puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors with gender dysphoria,” The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann previously reported. The group’s false claims about “transing” children prompted 20 state attorneys general to launch a probe of its practices last year.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood