Judge temporarily blocks key parts of RFK, Jr.'s effort to overhaul U.S. childhood vaccines

"A federal judge on Monday blocked major parts of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s broad overhaul of U.S. vaccine policy in a decision that sides with six medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which had challenged Kennedy's rule changes in court."

"U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a stay on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's decision to drop the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines. The CDC had cut the number of diseases it recommended that all children receive vaccines against from 17 to 11."

"I think that from the standpoint of the children and the families of this country, they owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Judge Murphy, because he has now injected a degree of clarity into what we should be doing with regard to vaccine recommendations that was a little bit muddied up until now, said Andrew Racine, the AAP's president."

A federal judge in Boston issued a stay blocking major parts of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine policy overhaul. The CDC had reduced the number of diseases for which all children receive routine vaccinations from 17 to 11, a decision made in January that drew widespread criticism from public health experts. Six medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, challenged the rule changes in court. The judge also blocked the appointment of 13 members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, determining the appointment likely violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

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