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Well, there is a way to get rid of the immunity without Congress.
Under the 1986 Act,
the vaccine does need to be routinely recommended. Amongst other...
two other requirements. So it has to be a routine recommended vaccine.
You might have recalled... -Okay. ...Secretary Kennedy...
recently announced, not that long ago,
that COVID vaccine is no longer routinely recommended... -Right.
-...on the childhood schedule. -Right. I saw that.
So when you pull up the childhood schedule, the CDC childhood schedule, it's...
...the COVID vaccine's in blue. It's not in yellow. That means it's not routine.
It cannot get 1986 Act immunity. -Wow. -It has PREP Act immunity.
-Okay. Which is why probably they'll never take that away.
But it can't have it.
So if you took the other vaccines—and this will be a litigated issue, but... ...and
you made them non-routine... -Then they're out. -They would be out.
-Wow, that's a great one. And that...
and... and you know who can do that? The CDC director with the stroke of a pen.
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