WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is

still recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children, according to its latest published

immunization schedule.

The schedule, published late on Thursday by the public health agency, comes after Health and

Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - alongside the heads of the FDA and the National

Institutes of Health - earlier this week said the CDC would stop recommending routine COVID

vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.

The makers of COVID vaccines sold in the U.S. - Pfizer ( PFE ), Moderna ( MRNA ) and Novavax ( NVAX )

- did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Kennedy Jr., FDA commissioner Marty Makary and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya had said in a

video that the shots were removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule.

The CDC, following its panel of outside experts, previously recommended updated COVID

vaccines for everyone aged six months and older, and current recommendations are in line with

those made before.