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Medical groups sue HHS, RFK Jr. over vaccine policy
The lawsuit accuses Kennedy of working "to dismantle the longstanding, Congressionally-authorized, science- and evidence-based vaccine infrastructure that has prevented the deaths of untold millions of Americans."
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Reuters - Mon, 07, Jul 2025
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens at a Make Oklahoma Healthy Again kickoff event at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. June 26, 2025. / REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo
Several leading medical organizations on July 7 filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that current policies on COVID-19 vaccines pose an imminent threat to public health.
The plaintiffs, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Public Health Association and Infectious Diseases Society of America, have asked the court to vacate Kennedy's recent directive removing the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's childhood and pregnant‑women immunization schedules.
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The lawsuit accuses Kennedy of working "to dismantle the longstanding, Congressionally-authorized, science- and evidence-based vaccine infrastructure that has prevented the deaths of untold millions of Americans."
Representatives for HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kennedy, who for decades has sown doubt about the safety of vaccines contrary to evidence and research by scientists, is head of the department that oversees the CDC. He said in May that the CDC would remove the COVID-19 vaccine from vaccination schedules for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.
The complainants alleged that such "baseless and uninformed policy" decisions place critical populations at "grave and immediate risk" of preventable illness, long-term harm, or death.
Kennedy also fired all 17 members of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, the independent committee of experts that advises the CDC on vaccine policy, and replaced them with seven new members, including several who have advocated against vaccines.
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