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President Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a decades-long vaccine skeptic, as secretary of health and human services (HHS) is already undermining public trust in highly safe and effective vaccines.
ATLANTA (AP) — The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall’s flu vaccinations for just about every American — but only if they use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.
Thimerosal is a preservative that has long been used in certain vaccines to prevent bacterial contamination. Learn more about its history and why the ingredient is being debated again.
The chair of the Senate health committee has called on a panel of vaccine advisers to delay plans to meet this week, after accusing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of stacking the panel with unqualified members and vocal vaccine critics. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — a medical doctor who spent decades promoting vaccinations for children — wrote that the group Kennedy appointed lacks experience studying microbiology, epidemiology, or immunology. Cassidy infamously voted to confirm RFK Jr.
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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers began their first meeting Wednesday under intense scrutiny from medical experts worried about Americans’ access to lifesaving shots.
WASHINGTON, DC – Just hours ago, at the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing, Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) - the first pediatrician elected to Congress and co-chair of the Congressional Doctors Caucus - blasted Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for lying to Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and the American people about his dismantling of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and his undermining of vaccine efficacy and safety.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it would be inaccurate that he vowed to Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., he would not change the panel on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., accused Kennedy of lying to Cassidy and said she would hold Kennedy responsible for "every death from a vaccine-preventable illness."
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Tuesday in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce over the department's 2026 budget — and lawmakers grilled him on an array of topics, from federal funding cuts to vaccines.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t shading his big plans for the country’s vaccine safety system anymore.
The health secretary and longtime vaccine skeptic pledged during his Senate confirmation earlier this year to leave that alone. But at a House health panel hearing Tuesday, Kennedy said there was ample reason to worry some vaccines aren’t safe and gave no ground to Democrats who pointed out that most scientists and public health experts vehemently disagree.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) on Tuesday tore into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for his decades of lies about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, saying she will blame him every time someone dies from a vaccine-preventable disease on his watch.
“You have lied to the American people,” Schrier, who is a pediatrician, charged as Kennedy sat silently before a House committee. “You have lied to parents about vaccines for 20 years.”