Sweden Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccines for Children

A child receives a COVID-19 vaccine in a file photo. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Swedish Public Health Authority will stop recommending that healthy children between the ages of 12 and 17 receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

The general recommendation that healthy children aged 12 to 17 receive the COVID-19 vaccine will end after Oct. 31, according to the agency in a revision posted this weekend.