immunization

He has used his own fake science to justify slowly chipping away at immunization access.

On Friday, under fire from medical experts and several Republicans, Kennedy’s hand-picked CDC vaccine panel postponed a vote on whether to delay the newborn immunizations.

It also determines what vaccines are covered by the CDC’s Vaccines for Children Program, a publicly-funded service that provides immunizations to nearly half the nation’s children.

The first vote of the committee’s two-day meeting represents a relatively small change to current immunization practices.

But then he voted for Kennedy, explaining that Kennedy had assured him he wouldn’t alter the existing recommendations for childhood immunizations.