Good afternoon! It’s Wednesday, and here’s a video of a Lincoln Park Zoo bear named Birch eating some flowers. Here’s what you need to know today.
Health organizations and doctors in Illinois are expressing concern over the decision by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop recommending COVID-19 shots for healthy children and pregnant women, calling it “shortsighted” and warning it could limit health care choices for families.
In a video posted yesterday to social media site X, Kennedy said he removed the shots from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and HHS…