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Government and public health decisions on vaccine recommendations, schedules, and approvals, including actions by the CDC, HHS, and WHO.
AP and The Guardian obtained a letter Kennedy sent before the 2019 trip, and it settles what the visit was for without settling what the visit did, a distinction both his defenders and his critics keep collapsing.
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The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991. The figure on the federal counter is one death, marked subject to change, while Pennsylvania officials describe four deaths among unvaccinated people.
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At the Children's Health Defense conference, the health secretary read adverse reactions off a hepatitis B package insert whose own text says their frequency and cause cannot be established. HHS now has more than 150 such reported events under study.
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The Aug. 10 order also cuts the routine childhood list from 18 vaccines to 11 on the argument that the United States is out of step with Europe, and the pediatricians who have read it say no new safety or efficacy data came with it.
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An Edelman Trust Institute and Yale poll found that people rank a doctor's listening and patience alongside the explaining of risks. It landed in the same week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is due to keynote the group he chaired until December 2024.
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An immunologist argues the directive sets direction without holding authority. That leaves clinicians and state programs reconciling two sources of guidance, with nobody appointed to do it.
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Heidi Overton would arrive at the FDA from the White House Domestic Policy Council, with a political record rather than a regulatory one. Plan submissions for priorities set from outside the building.
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A vaccine executive order, a new food-additive notification duty and a finalized CMS coverage ban all landed in the same week. Each forces near-term decisions from labs, manufacturers and clinics.
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