The American Academy of Pediatrics is at war with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over COVID-19 shots for infants, and as usual, the media is willfully missing the real story. The CDC under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has backed off its old one-size-fits-all approach and now recommends that families and doctors make individualized decisions about vaccinating babies. The AAP, meanwhile, has dug in and insists that every child, starting at six months, should roll up their sleeves.

Reporters portray this as responsible doctors versus a “conspiratorial” Kennedy. But that framing is lazy. The truth is more uncomfortable: The AAP is undermining public trust in medicine far more than Kennedy ever could.

Look at the facts. In most advanced nations, pediatric authorities are not recommending COVID-19 shots for infants. The risk calculus just isn’t there, and vaccine uptake for this age group has been minimal worldwide. Yet the AAP has taken the most aggressive position on the planet. Shouldn’t journalists point that out? Shouldn’t they ask why? Instead, the coverage huffs about Kennedy’s “dangerous rhetoric”........

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