{"id":714195,"date":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714195\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:12:12","slug":"secretary-kennedy-denies-claim-that-cdc-has-spent-1-24-billion-on-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714195\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Kennedy denies claim that CDC has spent $1.24 billion on COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/secretary-kennedy-says-obesity-has-dropped-25-since-trump-got-into-office-chronic-diseases-north-carolina-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/a>denied that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent $1.24 billion on COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe claim that CDC has already spent $1.24 billion on COVID-19 vaccines is simply wrong,\u201d Kennedy wrote on the social media platform, X Thursday evening. \u201cThe contracts cited are indefinite delivery\/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts put in place ahead of the season to ensure availability if needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was reported earlier this month that the CDC awarded Pfizer $1.24 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trialsitenews.com\/a\/cdc-awards-pfizer-1.24-billion-for-covid-19-vaccines-despite-falling-demand-and-ongoing-safety-debate-e3060951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for COVID-19 vaccines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal contracts and notices that were published on SAM.gov, the CDC reportedly gave a Pfizer $735.7 million contract for pediatric vaccines for children and a $505.3 million contract for adult COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHHS and CDC have not purchased COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming respiratory season and have made no decisions regarding future purchases,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/rfk-jr-on-nyt-article-criticizing-his-hhs-leadership-unfair-inimical-and-inaccurate-nih-cdc-fda-jay-bhattacharya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kennedy said.<\/a> \u201cIDIQ contracts allowing future orders are not the same as spending taxpayer dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy has been a critic of vaccines before becoming head of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post on X, he thanked Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson for his investigation into vaccine risks.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you @SenRonJohnson for your relentless investigation of undisclosed vaccine risks and the official efforts of the Biden administration to conceal them from the public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied that the Centers for Disease&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-714195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}