Dr. Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the first Trump administration, told Newsmax on Thursday that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were overprescribed and wrongly mandated, particularly for children and healthy adults under 65, and continue to pose risks because of how they work in the body.

Redfield, who led the CDC during the early months of the pandemic, told “Finnerty” the federal government made a mistake in pushing the vaccines so broadly.

“These vaccines … should never have been mandated,” he said. “Two, they should have never been recommended for children.”

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