Health

 Unbiased Science -In a move that stunned the public health community, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced via Twitter/X that COVID-19 vaccines have been removed from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women. 

This announcement is unprecedented. It bypassed every established scientific and administrative process typically involved in changing national vaccine policy. There was no consultation with the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). No formal recommendations were issued. No public health agencies released supporting documentation. As of Tuesday morning, the CDC’s website still reflected previous guidance recommending COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and for children aged 6 months and older.

And yet, with one unilateral, unprecedented, and unaccountable post, the Secretary of HHS overrode decades of rigorous vaccine decision-making processes and likely dismantled vaccine access for millions.

Worse yet, without any transparency into the decision-making process, this move takes away people’s freedom to choose an effective tool for protection against a dangerous disease.

NY Times -   The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues.

But the report, from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma.