Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Risks Undermining Public Health Progress with Dangerous Policy Shifts

The recent overhaul of the vaccine advisory committee under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cast a dark shadow over well-established childhood vaccination programs essential to America’s public health and national security. This new panel's apparent intent to roll back longstanding recommendations for hepatitis B and combined MMRV vaccines threatens to unravel decades of progress achieved through science-based policies rooted in protecting our youngest citizens. Is America Ready to Gamble with Proven Vaccine Success? For decades, the American healthcare system has championed early childhood immunization schedules that include administering the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a practice credited with...