Bret Weinstein Tells Tucker Carlson His Theory On Who’s Pushing To Keep COVID Vax On US Schedule

Biologist Bret Weinstein told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that he believes the White House is behind the decision not to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. immunization schedule.

In February 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it would add the COVID-19 vaccine to immunization schedules for children, adolescents and adults. While discussing the issue on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Carlson asked Weinstein to weigh in on the CDC’s continued push for COVID-19 shots, asking whether there were “no cabinet secretaries who could act independently.”

“OK, I’m going to ask you to pause, and I want you to explain it because it’s been completely buried. But are there no cabinet secretaries who could act independently? Because there is a cabinet secretary [who] I think has purview over this,” Carlson said.

“Well, you’re surely talking about [Health and Human Services Secretary] Bobby Kennedy [Jr.], who, I believe, absolutely would, if he had the power,” Weinstein said.

Carlson followed up with a second question, asking if Weinstein believed the White House was the one making the decision. (RELATED: SICK: Unmasking Big Government)

“I believe it must be a White House decision because Bobby knows the horror of these shots as well or better than anyone,” Weinstein said. “So I think he must feel that he can’t get there or maybe he’s working there over time, but every month that we wait, more children are being injected with these things. I’m focusing on the children because — ”

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“Are people actually, parents are saying, ‘OK, give my kid a COVID shot?’” Carlson asked.

Since its recommendation in 2023, the CDC is still advising a four-dose COVID-19 vaccine series for children as young as six months old, according to its 2024-2025 schedule. While Kennedy has softened his stance on some vaccines, he remains an outspoken critic of the CDC’s decision to add the COVID-19 shot to children’s schedules.

“You can imagine what a bewildering situation it is. Imagine that you’re a first-time parent and the doctors are telling you that the responsible thing to do is to give your child all of these immunizations because of all of the damage, this, that, and the other. It’s very hard for a parent to muster the courage to ask the right questions,” Weinstein said. “Most people wouldn’t even know what the right questions to ask are. And, what’s more, the incentives in the system for doctors to get their patients so-called fully vaccinated are constructed so that doctors are absolutely inflexible on this topic.”

“They’re going to have something to answer for, in my opinion,” Carlson said.

Once the vaccine was distributed throughout the U.S., companies like Pfizer made significant profits through boosters and sales of the antiviral pill Paxlovid, despite reports of side effects from both treatments. In May 2022, Moderna reported nearly $6 billion in first-quarter vaccine sales, compared to Q1 of 2021. Pfizer’s first-quarter profit also surged 61% that year, hitting $8 billion after vaccine sales.

“I agree. And I can’t believe that doctors who at this point know the truth are not standing up en masse,” Weinstein added.

In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep education accessible by ending COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools. The order states that federal funds cannot be used — directly or indirectly — to “support or subsidize an educational service agency, State educational agency, local educational agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program.”

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