A federal judge on Monday blocked Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to federal vaccine policy, including a reduction in the recommended childhood immunization schedule and the restructuring of a key vaccine advisory panel.
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee, granted a motion from the American Academy of Pediatrics for a preliminary injunction against the reduced childhood immunization schedule implemented earlier this year. The ruling also blocks Kennedy’s remaking of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and invalidates all votes made by the committee since it was reconstituted. (RELATED: Doctors Sues RFK Jr. In Effort To Halt New HHS Child Vaccine Schedule)
Murphy found that the restructuring of the advisory panel last year did not comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The judge also ruled that the CDC’s decision to bypass the ACIP when changing the childhood immunization schedule constituted both a “technical, procedural failure” and “an abandonment of the technical knowledge and expertise embodied by that committee.” (RELATED: CDC Scales Back Universal Childhood Vaccine Schedule)
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