RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change

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RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change
June 13, 20255:00 AM ET
From KFF Health News
By Jackie Fortiér


A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to change U.S. policy on COVID vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others.

One health expert called the document "willful medical disinformation" about the safety of COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women.

"It is so far out of left field that I find it insulting to our members of Congress that they would actually give them something like this. Congress members are relying on these agencies to provide them with valid information, and it's just not there," said Dr. Mark Turrentine, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Kennedy, who was an anti-vaccine activist before taking a role in the administration, announced May 27 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would no longer recommend COVID vaccines for pregnant women or healthy children, bypassing the agency's formal process for adjusting its vaccine schedules for adults and kids.

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