Washington D.C. – Building on earlier reporting today that Trump-Kennedy HHS plans to recklessly reduce vaccine recommendations for US children in the new year – in and of itself a radical shift from long-standing, well-founded policy that will put American children at far greater risk of preventable diseases that often prove deadly — the Washington Post now reports the administration is considering whether to “stop recommending most childhood vaccines… a fundamental shift in the health care system that generally relies on federal health agencies to guide how patients are protected against disease.”
Kayla Hancock, director of Public Health Watch, a project of Protect Our Care, released the following statement in response:
“When Donald Trump nominated a conspiracy-trafficking, anti-vax legal grifter with a highly checkered past and zero relevant expertise as his health secretary, the bar was set very low: just don’t get anyone killed. Yet RFK Jr’s HHS is reportedly about to adopt a policy virtually certain to result in many poor health outcomes and deaths, particularly among children. If there’s one thing the U.S. Health Department should not be taking a ‘hands off’ approach to, it’s preventable diseases that could quickly escalate into the next pandemic or health crisis. To advance this policy that deliberately hurts vulnerable Americans flies in the face of decades of peer-reviewed data that shows the vaccines the CDC has been recommending for years are highly safe and effective. Here’s a recommendation for Secretary Kennedy: resign now before any more Americans get needlessly hurt under this baseless and dangerous anti-vaccine crusade.”
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