The American Academy of Pediatrics is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overturn his department’s newly reduced childhood vaccine schedule.
Under the new guidance, the CDC removed four vaccines from the list of recommended vaccines for all children. Those vaccines are now advised through “shared clinical decision-making” between families and clinicians or are limited to specific high-risk groups.
The vaccines that were removed from the universal schedule are those for rotavirus, influenza, meningococcal disease, and hepatitis A. (RELATED: CDC Scales Back Universal Childhood Vaccine Schedule)
The lawsuit called the move “reckless” and “dangerous,” for high-risk children.
The Daily Beast reports:
“Defendants arbitrarily—and illegally—revised the existing childhood and adolescent immunization schedule through a ‘Decision Memorandum’… without following the evidentiary-driven, and legally required processes for issuing recommended vaccine schedules in the United States,” wrote the AAP, which was joined in its lawsuit by six other public health groups.
The suit also seeks to disband Kennedy’s hand-picked vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which Kennedy stacked with his fellow anti-vaccine crusaders.
According to the lawsuit, HHS adopted its new vaccine schedule without considering basic questions as how the changes would impact patients’ health; whether uninsured Americans could still get the shots if they wanted them; and how the changes would burden doctors and hospitals.
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Who is funding this litigation? Follow the money. Where does the funding for the American Academy of Pediatrics come from. It isn’t from annual $30 subscriptions from Pediatric doctors. It really isn’t doctors filing the suit. It is an organization funded by big Pharma. No sane doctor would want to force 75 vaccines on children under 3 years old.
Ms. Butler: I’m not sure if this statement is yours or that of the Daily Beast: “The suit also seeks to disband Kennedy’s hand-picked vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which Kennedy stacked with his fellow anti-vaccine crusaders.”
From articles and videos I’ve seen of several of the new members of ACIP, they are not “anti-vaccine crusaders” but are very concerned about the many serious side effects of some of the vaccines, the disregarding of VAERS reports, and even the lack of large, randomized trials for most vaccines. Like any good practitioner, a provider and parents must weigh the risk/benefit ration for each individual child with each vaccine.
Thank you!